Lightning Kissed by Lila Felix

Author:Lila Felix [Felix, Lila]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2016-01-04T00:00:00+00:00

LUCENT FEMALES ARE TO KEEP AN UPSTANDING REPUTATION AT ALL TIMES.

I changed the subject quickly and pretended to be distraught over having still not called my mother or Ari or Sway. We flashed back to the house.

Collin was all business. He’d made a pit stop in South Korea and put a set of information-carrying USB drives in the hand of someone he said he trusted with his life. The boys were pretty beat, but I was wide awake. I placed calls to Sway and Ari, letting them know where we were, but no more. I told them the bare minimal information in case they were ever questioned in connection to us.

“Tell me everything,” my mom insisted.

“Mom, what if you’re questioned? I don’t want the Synod up your ass because of me.”

“Oh, Colby, the Synod has been up my ass more times than I care to admit. Just tell me. It will help you to get it off your chest.”

“Okay.” I flopped onto the chair on the porch and spilled my guts. Some things came out as a robotic spewing of facts and some things came out with an emotional tone of voice I didn’t know I was capable of. My mom knew my aversion to feelings but never missed a beat. Before I knew what had happened, I was a blubbering mess, just hopping from topic to topic with no intelligent train of thought.

Arms folded a blanket around my legs and put two tissues in my hands and then disappeared.

“Mom, I’m a newspaper where he’s a romance novel.”

She laughed loud and long at that remark. “No, you’re more like a travel magazine.”

“Make fun of me, Mom. Thanks.”

That made her laugh even harder.

“Go to bed, Colby. You sound like a mess and it’s taking everything in me not to flash over there and hold you. I’m going to Rebekah’s tomorrow. She said she’s got some kind of stomach bug and she doesn’t get sick often.”

“That’s because she’s taken to eating big, greasy slabs of meatloaf. No wonder she’s having digestion issues.”

“Meatloaf? I just gagged, Colby. Don’t say that word again.”

I sighed into the phone. “Thanks, Mom.”

“I love you more than time and space, Colby. And Theo does too.”

“I love you too, Mom.”

“See? Not so hard, huh? Do the boy a solid and tell him you love him more than just once a year.”

“Do you a solid? Have you learned how to travel to the seventies?”

“No. I wish. Goodnight, my girl. Be safe.”

“Goodnight, Mom.”

Shrugging out of the blanket, I did the best I could to mop up the remains of my emotion fest. It was Theo who had covered me and provided the tissues. Knowing him, he was watching me through the window. I moved to get up when I saw a flicker of something in the distance. Whatever it was, it bobbed from place to place. It must’ve been an animal.

Blindly reaching behind me, I knocked on the windows. Theo was out first, followed by Collin.

“There’s something out there.”

“Resin.”

“I think it’s an animal.

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