Earthbound by Melora Johnson

Author:Melora Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: falling in love, new relationship, exotic birds raptors, new hampshire veterinarian, paranormal abilities demon hunter, special healing abilities, working together to fight evil
Publisher: Tirgearr Publishing

Chapter 11

It was a couple more hours before they brought my roommate in. Lula had to be close to fifty. She was short, blond, and fairly skinny, also dressed a little trashy. I had a feeling she was the type who wore lots of bling normally. She was also very chatty. I wondered in passing if it was to put me off my guard.

I tried to think of a way to touch her, though I wasn’t sure I wanted to. She’d been brought in for prostitution. I know, I know, it doesn’t make a person unclean, but it makes you wonder where they’ve been and what they’ve been doing. Of course, I wondered the same thing about Zyriel these days. I wasn’t sure angels, even fallen angels, would be subject to the same sorts of diseases humans are. Could he pass them on even if he wasn’t susceptible to them himself? Thank God it didn’t matter anymore.

“Whatcha reading?” Lula asked me when I tried to stick my nose back in my book in an effort to escape her chatty Cathy imitation.

“Chuck Wendig book.”

She sat on the edge of her bunk with one leg crossed over the other, folded hands on her bouncing knee. “I don’t know him. Is he the author or the character?”

“Author.”

“Ah, see, me? I’m more of a Janet Evanovich or Nora Roberts fan. I like the action and the romance. Uh huh, when I was a kid, it was all about Phyllis Whitney and Danielle Steele, but my tastes have gotten more sophisticated since then.” She snapped her gum.

I looked down at my reading. My mother had always said if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

“Mind if I smoke?” she asked, looking around as if to pick up her purse.

“They let you have your lighter in here?” I asked in surprise. What else had they let in?

She tittered. “Oh, silly me, you’re right, they confiscated that.” She sighed. “Along with everything else.” Her hands fluttered to her neck then rubbed together. “I feel half naked without my rings and necklaces.”

Was she on some kind of drugs, legal or illegal?

“I haven’t been in a prison this small since Roanoke, but it never lasts. Buster gets me out, and we go on our merry way.”

I wondered if Buster was her pimp. I couldn’t resist asking. “Who’s Buster?”

“Oh, Buster, he’s my... well, sort of my sugar daddy. We don’t see each other often, but when he calls, I come a running, and when I call, he comes a running. I’m a free spirit, and my Buster likes me that way.”

I studied her a little closer. Wasn’t she pushing it to be doing what she did? “Lula. Please don’t take this the wrong way, aren’t you getting a little old to be a prostitute?”

Her eyes got wide, and she laughed. “Oh my, where’d you get an idea like that? I’m no prostitute.”

Shoot. Well, she was being pretty nice about it. “Oh, the guard said.”

“Well, yes, that’s what they booked me on, but I’m not a prostitute, it was just a misunderstanding.

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