Gods and Monsters by Felicia Jedlicka

Author:Felicia Jedlicka [Jedlicka, Felicia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-03-21T05:00:00+00:00

“That’s not exactly how I feel,” Danato added less enthusiastically.

“Oh, Danato, it doesn’t matter. I was resigned on dying that night. You saving me just put me in a position that I didn’t know what to do with, but made the best of. Belus is right. I am a complete nut job and a pain in the ass.”

“Anti-social was the phrase I used,” Belus corrected with a note of sourness for her paraphrasing.

“Yes, but what I’m trying to say is that I don’t think I care.”

“When did your life spin off course?” Danato asked paying no heed to what was supposed to be her suicidal admission. All her best lines were lost on lesser minds.

“I don’t know really. I was out of college and working as a nurse.” Gypsy paused thinking about that part of her life again. It seemed like someone else’s life. If they were right about the genie it was this life that was someone else’s. Cori’s apparently. “I hated it. I had considered joining the military. I wanted to do…something different.”

“You didn’t though?” Danato asked.

“No, I chickened out. I stayed in my job, and got abducted when I took a vacation with my girlfriends.”

“Had you joined the military, you wouldn’t have been able to go on that vacation,” Danato clarified for her more than himself.

“Yes, that’s right.”

Danato nodded pleased with that answer. “Good, that’s a tremendous coincidence. That sounds like a designed skew in your life.” He stood and left the room without another word.

Gypsy tipped her brow to Belus. “Well, I guess he’s reassured. What about you, Ruthie?”

“You’re just a bit more border-line than any of us wants to admit, aren’t you?” he asked tipping his head to examine her. “I don’t think you understand what we’re telling you. All that crap you went through with Mr. Throat Slasher: the rapes, the beatings, the slave labor. You don’t have to endure it, which means after this is all said and done, you will be free of all those bad memories, all the scars emotional and physical. Gypsy you can lead a normal life as a nurse, or a soldier, or whatever you want: family, kids, dog, and a white picket fence. That’s even more than we hope for.”

Gypsy let her mouth gape open. “Wow. That sounds like the tenth level of hell to me, and I’ve already seen the first nine.”

Belus narrowed his eyes on her. He looked as if he had a scathing remark to brandish, but his enthusiasm for the rebuttal faded. He moved to the door offering no further commentary on her behavior, which was disappointing. He paused at the door before leaving, but didn’t offer anything more.

As soon as the door shut, she rolled her eyes and leaned back in her chair with her magazine. “Who the fuck wants a dog when you can have a dragon?”

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