Night Magic by Karen Robards

Author:Karen Robards
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Government Investigators, Fiction, Women Novelists, General
ISBN: 9780446353915
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 1987-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

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Drew slumped over in her seat by the fire in the living room of the Breakers and put her head in her hands as the vision enveloped her. Hospital green. Gleaming linoleum. People dressed in white pants and turquoise flowered smocks. From far away she heard Tammy exclaim and rush to help her, and Michael tell her that it was just another vision and they had to let it play out. She felt his arm around her shoulders. Then she heard no more, felt nothing but the vision.

A hospital waiting room rose around her, as clear as if she were standing there. Ahead were double doors, and she knew what she wanted was behind them. She pushed through the double doors. Beyond was an ICU. Beds in a circle. A doctor came up. He had one of those funny hats they wore to surgery. A mask dangled from his neck. “Who are you here to visit?” He looked grave. Drew knew that wasn’t good. But she didn’t know whom she was here to visit, so she couldn’t answer him.

Drew moved forward, but it wasn’t like she was walking. More like drifting slightly above the linoleum floor, like you do in dreams. She was drawn to a bed across the circle. She recognized Kee’s fall of dark brown hair and her mother’s black knit dress. Part of her was thinking that she was probably really going to hate this vision, knowing that it was a vision, and part of her was wondering whom they could know well enough to visit who would be in a hospital. Wouldn’t her mother just Heal Edwards and his men (now that they knew about her power), or Mr. Nakamura? And none of her family had ever been in a hospital. Why would they? Who was in that bed? Kee and her mother blocked her view.

At least whoever it was, was alive. So this was better than the vision of the funeral.

Kee was staring down at the occupant of the bed. Her mother was holding the patient’s hand. It was a big, male hand. Her mother turned her face up to Drew. She looked horrible. She’d been crying. Her eyes were red and there were dark circles under them. She looked much older than she did today. Whom would her mother cry for like that?

The sound of her own huge gasp brought her out of her trance. She jerked upright as though she’d been underwater until her lungs were bursting. Michael gathered her into his arms, holding her head against his chest and murmuring soothing words. It was a minute before she could catch her breath. Lanyon was standing over her. Tris and Maggie were coming in from the kitchen, looking worried. Kee and Devin crouched on another sofa, gripping each other’s hands.

“What was it?” Tammy asked. “What did you see?”

What could she say? That sometime in the future, she didn’t know when, someone they all knew and probably loved, a man, was in a hospital bed and was gravely ill? It could be one of the men in this room.

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