Magic, New Mexico: Reaching Reva (Kindle Worlds Novella) by CJ CADE

Author:CJ CADE [CADE, CJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

Deep in the night, a small beeping sounded in his ear.

Van work with a start, and lay still, assessing. Reva had rolled away from him. She slept on beside him, her back to him, one foot warm against his leg. Nothing stirred in the room, but outside it, something had alerted the tiny alarm pacs he'd set on the doors and windows.

Van shoved back the covers and surged to his feet, fully awake, weapon in hand, ready for anything. He moved silently through the house.The beeping grew faster, meaning he was going in the right direction.

Laser at the ready, sweeping from side to side, Van moved to the apex of the hallway. The signal led him toward the back of the house, where he and Reva had lounged, and more, only hours before. Anger fired cold in his gut. Had some spy watched them talk and even embrace?

The beeping flared into one long signal. Not at the back door, but to one side, where one of the long windows let in a shaft of light from the moon. And outside, a shadow moved. About the right height for a local human, but very thin. This could be from the angle of moonlight, or it could be because the being casting the shadow was not human.

That didn't mean the being was immune to a laser charge.

Then as Van watched, the shadow shrank. The being was moving away from the dwelling. With nothing to lose, Van moved directly to the wall beside the window, and peered out. At first he saw nothing but the slender trees grouped in the corner by the low fence, the tall cacti planted along the walk that meandered through the short grass, and across the fence, the dark outline of Lacey's aunt's house.

But then something shifted in the shadow of a cactus, and a nebulous, dark shape drifted away into the night.

The tiny alarm signal in his comlink went quiet. And though Van watched and waited for several moments, he saw and heard nothing else.

Whatever it was, it had gone for now. He would ask Frost about the occurrence in the morning. The man had been here long enough to know if what Van had seen was normal here in this place.

He used the lav, then returned to guard his woman... except that when he walked into the bedroom, it was empty.

Reva was gone.

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