Lightning Strikes by Theresa Parker

Author:Theresa Parker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Romance, Paranormal & Supernatural, Contemporary
Publisher: Theresa Parker
Published: 2014-04-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

I woke up when Cavanaugh scooped me out of the truck and carried me through my backyard and onto my back patio. Kelli stood at the kitchen door, holding it open for us to enter. He carried me through to the living room, where Grant and Pamela waited, and laid me on the couch. He stood back, ran his shaking hands through his hair, and watched as Kelli and Pamela fussed over me. Grant moved around the coffee table and sat in front of me. He took a penlight from his pocket and shined it into my eyes to test my pupil response. Satisfied, he grabbed my wrist and put two fingers on my pulse, timing the beats with his watch.

“Well, your pulse is fine, Rommy,” he said. “You seem to be okay. What happened?” He retained hold of my hand.

Cavanaugh made a growling sound in the back of his throat and sat on the couch at my hip, pulling my hand out of Grant’s and keeping it in his own. Grant laughed, and Kelli tsked at him. I knew Grant was worried, but I could tell he was trying to lighten the situation for Kelli’s sake. Kelli hustled him off to the kitchen and they returned with hot coffee, cups, cream, and sugar. Kelli fixed mine for me just the way I like it, but before she let me have it, she handed me my prescription migraine pills and a bottle of water. I looked at them blankly for a moment and then handed them back to her.

“I don’t need those,” I told her, indicating the pills.

“You don’t?” she said, perplexed.

I shook my head. “No, I don’t have a headache. In fact, I feel fine now…well, maybe a little tired.”

Cavanaugh squeezed my hand. “What happened out there, Rommy?” he asked me.

I took a deep breath and told them all what happened at the mine. I explained about the high-voltage humming sound that I’d picked up in my head and carried with me from the visitor center and on into the park. I described how it got progressively worse as we traveled to the second cluster of mines until it incapacitated me on the trail to the iron mine.

“Why did that happen?” I asked, looking to Grant and Kelli for answers. “I’ve never had anything like that happen to me before.”

Pamela was sitting quietly in my overstuffed chair, patiently listening to my story. “What kind of mines were they?” she asked.

“The first three were gold,” Cavanaugh told her, “and the next cluster, where she collapsed, was silver and iron ore.”

Pamela nodded her head. “I thought it might be something like that,” she said.

“You know what happened?” Cavanaugh asked.

“Yes,” Pamela said, “I believe I do.” She scooted forward in the chair and leaned toward me with her elbows on her knees. “Do you remember when I told you about how my gift runs in my family?”

I nodded, remembering everything she said the first night we met.

“Because our gifts are passed

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