Bound by Light by Anna Windsor

Author:Anna Windsor [Windsor, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Fantasy
ISBN: 0345498550
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2008-08-26T07:00:00+00:00

(23)

Merilee planted her feet firmly on the floor, leaned forward, and pressed her palms into the table. Her knees shook, and she had to tense her whole body to control her spinning head as she glared at Sal Freeman across the long table in the townhouse conference room. Andy was, for the moment, out of harm’s way with another Sibyl, sending messages to the Mother-houses. Good thing, because Merilee was plotting to blow the captain of the OCU to some other planet.

Without opening the windows.

Mother Keara in her green robes and Mother Anemone in blue stood behind Freeman as if to shield him from Merilee’s fury, but her triad and Creed and Nick stood with her at the opposite end of the table. Jake sat in a chair at the table’s center with his Glock on the table in front of him, hands folded beside the gun, eyes focused on a point somewhere in the back of the room.

Wind surged through Merilee’s still-weak body and she barely held back disaster as she snarled, "You can’t suspend Jake."

Freeman’s dark eyes blazed. "I have—" he began, but Jake finished for him.

"He has to do it. Seven people died this morning under suspicious circumstances—after I knocked them out." Jake kept his gaze straight ahead on nothing at all. He didn’t move. The sleeves of his jacket didn’t so much as twitch. Even at an angle, Merilee could tell his expression was as flat as his voice. "It’ll be a while before the M.E. gives us anything definite."

In her thick-headed, confused state, she couldn’t stop focusing on him or his talisman, which still rested between her breasts, beneath her leather jumpsuit. Her fingers itched to touch it, rub it, force him to respond to her in some real, emotional way. But no. She wouldn’t let herself do it, couldn’t allow herself to override his will, but damnit she wanted him to fight this.

"It’s my fault," Jake added in that terrible toneless voice. "The techs are dead because of me."

"That’s not true," Mother Anemone argued before Merilee could sputter out the words. "Some terrible, wicked power killed those unfortunate technicians, and when Yana returns from conducting her investigation, she’ll tell us what it was."

"I’ll still have to suspend Jake until our own internal investigation is completed." Freeman looked genuinely sorry, miserable actually, but Merilee still wanted to kill him. "It’s policy—and with Alvin Carter and the presidential race involved, and the existence of the OCU spilling into the open—damn. The media is swallowing this whole. The entire city is losing its mind, panicking about supernatural activity and potential paranormal threats."

"Policy sucks," Cynda snapped from behind Merilee as a tendril of smoke snaked across the table. "The media sucks! They don’t know what Jake is, and they haven’t found out about the Sibyls yet."

"Careful," Nick said, and Merilee knew he was trying to calm Cynda’s fire energy. "I agree with you, but take it easy with flames."

Powered by Cynda’s unexpected but very welcome support, Merilee let loose with more of her frustration.

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