Dragon's Teeth by James A. Hetley

Author:James A. Hetley [Hetley, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Magic, love, stonemason, criminals, smugglers, brujo, pirate, carpenter, Stonefort, parenting, selkies, ocean, shapeshifters, witches, Maine, hackers, computer, radio, amateur, illegal, alternate, nurse, emergency, drugs, registered, American, technician, medical, Native, history
ISBN: 978-1-937776-51-0
Publisher: TKA Distribution
Published: 2013-04-17T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

The guy looked like a pizza deliveryman. The guy looked like Gary, twenty years older. Jane saw that face and the world went blank for a second and she tried to walk right through a cinder-block wall. But it wasn't Gary, no matter how much she hoped he'd come back and give her a chance to explain two bullets. The guy just looked like him.

She caught herself, leaning against the dorm corridor wall and fiddling with her shoe as if that had been the problem. Don't catch his attention. You're just another coed, not even a pretty one. Hair curlers under a wet bandanna, baggy sweats, backpack full of books, no makeup, no hair dye. If Gary described you to his family, damn sure you don't fit the image he gave them. Be invisible, just like Gary.

And nobody paid any attention to the guy, just like with Gary. Sometimes she swore she was the only person who could see that boy. Like the invisible rabbit in that movie. And this guy had just waltzed right into the dorm lounge, human-engineering his way past ten grand's worth of electronic locks and security cameras with a pizza box. That was Gary all over.

Gary. She squeezed her eyes shut against the pain, as if she'd just caught her finger in the door.

She'd been sitting in a dim corner, waiting, chewing her fingernails up to her elbows. He hadn't come back to the dorm. Dashed up to his room, checked, back down to the study lounge, back up to his room, back down to the other lounge, the noisy one, with a card game going. And this guy had waltzed in with a pizza box and dumped it on a table and left it there.

No way he was a pizza man, letting go of that box without cash in hand. And he looked like Gary, twenty years older. She didn't know a lot about Morgans, but she knew damn well that they didn't need to earn a living by delivering pizzas on the midnight shift.

Not Gary's father, not the picture in the obituaries, but he damn sure was family. Make that capitalized Family, like in the Mafia. The way they'd cleaned out her squat, that was The Mob operating there. Scared the shit out of her. She was still shaking, just thinking about it.

His glance swept over the room, over her without pausing, and he shook his head. He was looking for somebody. Looking for Gary, had to be.

He left. Headed down the corridor, toward the east stairwell. Nobody noticed him going, either. She went the other way, up the other stair, not going to wait half an hour for the elevator to show up. If that was a Morgan, had to be a Morgan, she didn't want to try following him.

She'd tried following Gary once, waited outside a class they didn't share, wanted to see where he went when he vanished downtown. He'd noticed her within ten steps, had waited for her

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