Mine by Kenya Wright

Author:Kenya Wright [Wright, Kenya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ZachEvans Creative LLC
Published: 2018-12-20T16:00:00+00:00

17

Immortal Love

Zola

Baptiste held a small bushel of white sage in his hands. Copper thread wound around it. He set the light to the tip. Flames rose. And then, Baptiste blew the fire away. Smoke replaced the blaze, rising into the air in swirls, filling the space in an herby scent. Calm settled along my shoulders.

Hunter took the box and went to talk to security.

I hugged myself and sat on the couch, waiting for his return. A soft blue blanket lay over my legs.

Baptiste turned on the fireplace. “How are you?”

“Fine.” I shifted my view to the flames, wishing I could throw these past moments with the stalker in the fire too.

Baptiste chanted something in another language. I assumed it was French but wasn’t sure. After a few minutes, he turned my way.

“Don’t worry.” Baptiste slowly waved the burning sage throughout the air, leaving a trail of white smoke in his path. “Don’t worry at all, Zola. It will all be over soon.”

“I know.”

“You do?”

“Hunter will find him.”

“He will.” Baptiste nodded. “And I’ll help. It’s the least I can do for him, when he’s done so much for me.”

I smiled. “You two are good friends?”

“We met in boot camp and had a few duty stations together. I’m probably the oldest friend Hunter has, besides your brother.”

I wondered how much Baptiste knew of Hunter and my past. “And now you two work together?”

“Yes. When he started his security company, I was the first person to join.”

“Every day must be an action-packed adventure.”

“And then there are the many days when you’re just babysitting a spoiled asshole. Excuse my French.”

“No problem.”

“Working with Hunter has been some of the best times in my life, but…I plan to retire soon, right after we find out about this stalker.”

“Why are you going to retire, if you don’t mind me asking?”

“I lost my wife.” He stared at the burning safe as if the smoke would shift into her face.

“I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be. It’s the cycle of our story.”

“Your story?”

“Her and I have had many lives, and throughout it all, we always found each other. My wife has been my husband in a prior life. And before that, we were lesbians. Another time, we were male lovers caught in the rapture of our confusion. We died because of that love.” He sat down, right across from me on the other couch, twirling the sage from side to side in his hand. “And before that, we were bears with little cubs in an ancient mountain. And before that, we were stars that burned for thousands of years. And before that, we’d merged as an iceberg. We were cold, ice. And we were warm. And we were desire. And flesh. And animal.”

Umm…

I sat there speechless.

Eccentric is right, Hunter.

“Sorry.” Baptiste blew at the smoke and watched it drift away. “When it comes to talking about Nakita, there is no logic to my words.”

“Your love sounds beautiful.”

“That’s the only way love can be. Anything else isn’t love. It’s sex. It’s lust. It’s a good time.

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