Hunter: Book 1 of The Assassin Journals by Sharon Partington

Author:Sharon Partington [Partington, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-03T22:00:00+00:00

I walked through the wet grass towards the back of my dad’s property. A cold wind blew through the trees, showering me with the occasional flurry of water. Joanna and I would be leaving soon, but I had to do something first.

The cemetery was small, surrounded by a white painted fence. My family rested here. I pushed open the wire gate and moved past the headstones, reading the names.

My grandparents: they’d died before I was born. I only knew them from the pictures my mom had shown me when I was a kid.

My dad’s older brother, Arthur: An engineer, killed in an explosion on the Terra-Luna space station during its construction.

I moved to a single grave in the corner nearest the fence.

Carol Brassan

Loving Wife and Mother

Gone but not Forgotten

I crouched in the wet grass staring at the headstone. What was I supposed to say to her?

I remember Kenny telling me once that death didn’t scare him because he believed his spirit would live on after he died. As I stared at my mother’s grave, I hoped it wasn’t true. Because if it was, then she knew what a total and complete fuckup I’d turned out to be.

A twig snapped and I whirled, reaching for my blaster. Joanna came up to stand beside me. She shivered inside one of my dad’s old hunting jackets. “Your mom?” she asked, looking at the headstone.

“Yeah.”

“I saw her picture in the house.” A moment’s hesitation. “Are you okay?”

I shook my head. “She was on her way home from Terra-Luna when the transport crashed. Thirty-nine passengers and crew. No survivors. I was seventeen. Whatever dreams she’d had for me died with her. My dad and me have never been that close, she’d been the glue holding us together. Without her, we just sort of...fell apart. I rebelled, quit school. He freaked. I left. Joined the GSF. Pretended I wanted to be a soldier.”

“My mom always wanted Danny to be something stable and respectable,” Joanna said. “A physician, maybe, or a lawyer. She cried for three days when he enlisted.”

“I was supposed to be a banker,” I said with a wry grin. “I suffered through almost two years of Interstellar Commerce in high school. I’d been accepted into the Accounting program at Western Terra University; I was supposed to start there the summer she died.”

Joanna glanced at me doubtfully. “A banker? Really?”

“Yeah, well. That’s what I said.” I looked back to the headstone. “Still, it was her dream for me, and it’s not like I had a better plan. If she’d lived, everything would be different.”

“Different how?” I glanced at her, and she gave me this look that was all innocence and light. “What? A perfectly reasonable question. How would it be different?”

“Well, I wouldn’t have joined the GSF for a start. I would have finished school and gone to work in some high paying division of the Galactic Commercial Bank. I’d probably have married the boss’s daughter and have a dozen kids by now.”

“Sounds like a pretty good life.

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