Nightwing by Lynn Michaels

Author:Lynn Michaels [Michaels, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Belgrave House
Published: 1995-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

At six minutes past four and forty-seven miles per hour, Willie skidded the Jeep off the beachfront road. Gravel strafed the mailbox and terror drummed in her veins.

The sun would set at three minutes past eight, eastern daylight time. She knew because she’d checked the almanac this morning before she’d gone out to the beach. That gave her roughly four hours to figure out how much of what Raven had told her was the truth and what she was going to do about it.

She hoped the diary would prod Johnny’s memory, that she wouldn’t have to hop a plane for Alaska, the land of the midnight sun, the safest place she could think of to hide from a vampire.

“Johnny!” Willie shouted as she raced through the house looking for him. “I’ve been with Raven and he—”

Willie lost her voice as she shot through her office doorway and came to a stunned halt. The room was full of flowers: tiger lilies on the filing cabinets, wild lavender on her desk, Shasta daisies on the bookcases and Queen Anne’s lace on Betsy’s rocking chair.

Fresh-washed sunshine poured through the windows, filling her nose with the sweet, wild scents of flowers and the sea. Filling her heart, too, as she moved into the room and dropped her purse. This was a lover’s gift. She’d received one or two in her time, but she’d never seen anything like this.

Or any man, alive, dead or in between, look at her the way Johnny did when she saw him behind her in the pedestal mirror. She could see her freckles, frizzy hair and not much of a nose in the glass, but not in Johnny’s eyes. His dark, strange eyes were so much like Raven’s and yet so different.

“Oh, Johnny,” she said, her eyes filling. “Thank you.”

He touched his fingertips to his lips. Willie didn’t realize he’d moved the mirrors until he stepped behind her and she saw their double reflections, one in a wall mirror above the bookcase, the other in the pedestal glass.

“This is beautiful,” Willie said on a shaky breath. “But we have to talk. Raven’s coming at sunset. He said—”

Johnny shook his head, raised his left wrist above her shoulder and pointed at it as if he were wearing a watch.

“No, there isn’t time. Raven says you’re his mortal half. He wants you back. He says it’s possible, that the two of you can be reunited. He gave me one of his diaries, and the Riddle of Rejoining.”

Willie dropped to her heels, pulled the cracked red notebook from her purse and felt her head spin. Too much brandy, she thought, shaking it off as she stood. Too quickly, she realized, when the room spun and her knees wobbled.

If Johnny hadn’t caught her she would’ve fallen. If he hadn’t swept his arm around her when it hit her that she could feel his hand on her shoulder, she would have fainted. She gazed at him, wide-eyed, in the mirror, the diary slipping out of her fingers and bouncing onto the carpet.

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