Dark Discovery (DARC Ops Book 8) by Jamie Garrett

Author:Jamie Garrett [Garrett, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wild Owl Press
Published: 2017-08-13T18:30:00+00:00

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Ethan

He waited for what felt like a whole night, staring into the pale outline of her face. Two glints of eyes, white specks in the dark staring back at him. He’d taken a chance on that shape, on those eyes. An even bigger chance on something inside her, what he’d hoped was a soul that matched the goodness and beauty of its outer shell. For this reason, he’d even entertained the idea of risking his career and personal reputation on protecting Lea. They were blood, the same DNA. And while they might have different careers and life paths, there must have been that same cosmic goodness in both siblings. Ethan had once before called it fairy dust, some absurd ethereal connection. A blind trust in the goodness of not only Kalani—which came easily—but the pair of them.

But there was something disturbing about the recent cloudiness that had come over the sisters, blotting out the normally shimmering fairy dust. Blotting across Kalani’s face when she’d talk about Lea, when trying to hide the obvious buildup of fears, and of growing suspicions about Lea’s lingering involvement in her Blackwater past. It was funny, or horrifying, that just when Ethan felt ready to trust Lea, he’d get this glimpse. The way Kalani was looking at him in the dark.

“I messed up,” Ethan said. “Didn’t I?”

Still a silent, unmoving shape. He felt the beginning edges of terror. Just how big did he screw up? One sister, or two?

Finally, Kalani said, “I never told you to do anything like that, to start . . . taking risks for her.”

“Oh, my God.”

“I’m with you, Ethan. Of course I’m with you.” She grabbed the sides of his arms, little clutching hands tying to pry him into her.

But Ethan’s resistance came to a very sharp point. A question. “Why didn’t you tell me if you were having these kinds of doubts about her?”

“Because she’s my sister.”

“So?” Ethan said, knowing that such a reason could only work to a point. Knowing that there had to have been a cutoff. “So if your sister goes and . . . if she goes and kidnaps—”

“No, no,” she said, cutting him off. “But if I start suspecting something, I really have to . . . I have to know I’m right. It’s taken me a lot just to get to this place where I’m even questioning her. If I had some solid evidence, of course you’d know about it.”

Her hands still held on to him. He believed her. It was that simple. It was her touch, her energy. It was her, in him.

“She and I have gotten close again,” Kalani said. “Even through all the fighting and everything. That doesn’t matter. The fighting almost makes us closer. But we’ve reconnected after all these years, and finally I want to start calling her, you know, to really start calling her my sister.” She sniffled, wiping a tear as it dripped down the side of her nose. “And now I start feeling like this. I .

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