Magic, New Mexico: Guarding Grayson (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Cade Cathryn

Author:Cade, Cathryn [Cade, Cathryn]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2016-05-03T04:00:00+00:00

On the way back to Magic, Gray drove glancing back and forth between the road—luckily laid out in long, straight shots through the open valley—Brynne’s long bare legs beside him in the rental car, and the occasional look at the passing landscape.

The scenery was beautiful in the way of high desert, with brush and trees along the riverbanks, grasses and cactus up the flanks of the hills, and the columns of red rock rising up out of the rubble of wind and rain erosion.

Above them the sky was pale, burnished blue, but dark to the south-west, where a thunderstorm was building, clouds massing, their tops towering white, the undersides gray with moisture.

Brynne, or rather E’ea, was thumbing through the car’s user manual at an amazing rate of speed, her eyes flicking back and forth from page to page.

“Why’re you reading that?” he asked. “Since you apparently don’t need vehicles to travel. And by the way—how did you get Brynne all this way from north Idaho to the border of Mexico? You told me how you woke her up, but not how you traveled.”

She looked at him. “We accessed one of your aircraft. The same one that brought you here, in fact.”

He gave her a look askance. “The FBI gave you a ride, just like that.”

She blinked, and then smiled, revealing Brynne’s pearly white teeth, and the little creases that formed at the corners of her full lips when she smiled. “Hmm. Those agents of your Federal Bureau of Investigation were being … assisted … by colleagues of mine, who are now gone, on to other missions.”

Gray shook his head. “I knew there was something freaky about their eyes. They were sparkly, or something.”

She merely hummed again. “As for why I am uploading the information in this manual, I am always fascinated by the primitive transportation methods of other planets. We traveled a long distance just to attain tools for your artwork, and yet we do so in a vehicle that can attain only speeds of one hundred and twenty of your miles per hour. I find that strange.”

“Normal speed for humans. Cars are cheaper than aircraft.”

“I am also intrigued,” she went on in the same cheerily informational tone, “by the way you continually examine Brynne’s lower extremities. And yet I understand this is quite normal for the virile male of your species.”

Gray’s cheeks heated, but he gave Brynne’s legs another pointed look. “Yeah, it’s normal, when a pretty woman is dressed like you are. Half the guys in the supermarket were looking at you—her instead of the produce.”

She said nothing, and he glanced over to find her studying him with interest.

“What?”

She blinked. “I believe ‘nothing’ is the correct response here.”

“Right.” She was learning a little too fast.

They reached Magic without incident, other than a fool in a scarlet Porsche who passed them on a rise and nearly took out a minivan coming the other way. As they neared the café, Gray’s stomach reminded him it was lunchtime. He had a trunk loaded with groceries, but he wasn’t in the mood to cook.

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