Parallel Attraction by Deidre Knight

Author:Deidre Knight [Knight, Deidre]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780451218117
Published: 2009-04-05T19:48:19+00:00

In the center of his palm, Jared held the gold ring, staring into the circle of it as he might a scattering of mystics' reading leaves."What is it?" Scott and Thea demanded in unison, each trying to see the object he held close inside his palm.

With a mystified shake of his head, he extended his hand toward them in explanation. "A wedding band."

"Whose?" Scott said, kneeling beside him. "Who in hell's name would have left a ring in here?" They had purchased the cabin from its builder; no one else besides their team had ever lived within the large home.

"Marek did," Jared answered, his gaze never leaving the object. Against his skin, the gold burned like a strake stone, almost scalding him with its supernatural energy, but he wasn't about to relinquish the object.

"How do you know that, Jared?" Thea asked, gazing over his shoulder and into his palm's center.

"I saw it. Him. And her." It was the vision that had sent him to his knees, searching. Oh, yes, he had seen Kelsey here on the floor, naked and frightened, had seen her clutching this same band in her pale hand, unwilling to relinquish it. But what had it meant to her? That he did not yet know.

As he turned toward Thea, the air crackled with energy and came alive around him. The floor shifted beneath his feet as he caught a glimpse of Kelsey in front of his bathroom mirror with nothing but a towel wrapped around her beautiful body. Before he could make sense of it, the image dissolved and faded into another: Kelsey on the floor of his bedroom, a threatening stranger towering over her half-naked form.

He jerked his head toward the center of his bedroom, as if he might actually see her sprawled there, and flashed on the strangest vision of all. He saw someone who looked very much like himself, but older, harder. Scarred. Ruined. Jared dug the heels of his hands into his eyes and began to shake as the air all around him cooled unnaturally. What was happening to him? What had happened in this room, intense enough to leave a visual imprint in the atmosphere?

Jared looked up slowly, lifting his face out of his hands. "I… I'm getting things… off this room," he told them, wheeling his gaze about. "Things that might help us find Kelsey."

Scott placed a strong hand on his shoulder. "What sorts of things, my lord?"

"Emotions… images." Not that such a discovery should be surprising—only surprising in that he, a nonintuitive, should see so much.

Jared closed his eyes. Grief … a solid wall of grief. Terror. Delirious ecstasy… more grief. The impressions washed over him in rapid succession, almost like watching a fast-forwarded movie, the images were that vivid and fast. But of all the sensations swimming through his mind, one in particular kept surfacing out of the murky depths: terror. Kelsey's terror shooting like ungrounded electric current all about them; it was the starkest, most recent imprint he was picking up.

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