Child by Chloe Garner

Author:Chloe Garner [Garner, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A Horse Called Alpha
Published: 2019-05-01T22:00:00+00:00

“I’m working.”

“You doing a good job back there? I’ve got a reputation to protect.”

“Which part of your reputation are you worried about a bite mark damaging?” he asked. She grinned at him over her shoulder.

He finished and went to sit in front of her, laying Anadidd’na across his lap. Damn, Kara was gorgeous.

“Look, this sucks.”

“What, specifically?”

He spread his hands.

“This. Sam’s people. The stuff they deal with. They really don’t have much fun.”

“Is that because of them or because of what they do?” Kara asked. “Sammycat seems pretty happy when she’s with us.”

“She ran away, Kara.”

Kara grimaced as she considered this.

“I can see that. She needed you and Sam. But you can’t show me this and expect me not to want to do it.”

“I know,” Jason said. “I wanted you to understand. Sam’s always saying it’s complicated, and it is, but it isn’t that complicated.” He motioned to the house behind him. “That isn’t even the worst of it, but that’s what she does.” He laid his hands across Anadidd’na, now. “The problem is, I don’t know how to train you, even if I agreed to it.”

“How did she train you?”

He thought about it.

“Mostly by accident, I think,” he said. She nodded, then grinned.

“We’re going to show them how it’s done,” she said. He ran his tongue across his back teeth with a grin as he nodded, then offered her a hand up as he turned Anadidd’na over his shoulder.

“Always do.”

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She was most of the way back to Kansas when Samantha sensed Sam. It wasn’t the same as before, and for a moment she was afraid he had died, that this was his final brush against her as he faded away, but he dismissed this casually.

“Can you hear me?” she asked. There was a bit of confusion, as the sense of Sam spread and narrowed, trying to keep up with her. She pulled off of the interstate at the next exit and found an abandoned gas station. She parked.

“Is that better?”

He darted away and back again, focusing in and out wildly, without control. He was just a shadow of himself, a sliver of his awareness without a sense of source or physical grounding, as his visions always were. He was confused, uncomfortable, but not aimless or afraid. He was working on it. She stayed in place a while longer to try to help him focus, eyes closed, trying to make a beacon of herself that would be familiar and concrete. At last, his presence settled inside the car.

“You’re hurting yourself,” she said. He brushed this off as well. She had once thought she could never understand what a psychic went through for their discipline, but through Sam, she witnessed it all as though it were firsthand. He didn’t cross the line to altering things he had seen, but he pushed at it as hard as she could believe was possible.

“Did you see what happened in New York?”

Confusion. He wandered a bit, as if the reference to a different geographical space drew his attention away, and she waited again, hands on the steering wheel, as he dragged his mind back.

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