Sight Unseen by Wilson Gayle

Author:Wilson, Gayle [Wilson, Gayle]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-04-06T17:37:07+00:00

Chapter Twelve

She wasn’t sure why Ethan had come to her door. Maybe simply to ask her again the questions for which she still had no answers. Why she’d gone upstairs. And, more important, why she’d gone out on the ledge.

Without those two pieces of the puzzle…

“Maybe in the morning things will seem clearer,” he’d said before he left. “Maybe while you sleep, your subconscious will remember something that can explain what happened tonight.”

Since the only other occasion on which she had lost time was the first night she’d seen the image of the pond, she had no experience to guide her. What she felt right now was that the black void that hid both her actions and her motives was impenetrable.

“Maybe,” she’d said noncommittally.

There was another of those awkward pauses before he had nodded. “I’ll see you tomorrow then. Sleep well.”

She wouldn’t. She knew that as surely as she knew that she had nothing more to fear tonight. Of course, she hadn’t felt any sense of anxiety about the function they’d attended, either.

All she had felt as she’d dressed was anticipation. Not about what would happen at the dinner, but about what she knew would happen when they returned to the hotel. To this suite.

And she’d been wrong.

The lack of foreknowledge since she’d been in Washington had never happened before. It confused her, making her doubt something that had once been as natural as breathing.

As a child she had believed that everyone knew the things she knew. When it would rain. What someone was really thinking, despite what they said. The days her mother was going to be too sick to get up in the morning, leaving her to her own devices. Not that she ever minded that.

There was a whole world to explore. A world that consisted not only of the sights and sounds everyone saw, but her world, rich with the color and texture of thoughts and emotions.

Some of those had been dark, a little frightening to the child she had been then. It had taken her a long time to encounter real evil, however, which was far more rare than most people believed.

And when she had finally learned the taste and smell and feel of it, she had chosen to protect herself in the only way she knew how. She had chosen to deny the ability she had been born with.

And now, when, for the first time in her life, she needed the gifts with which to protect herself, they were no longer hers to command.

A punishment for having denied them? Or the natural result of attempting to stifle the sensations that had once bombarded her with images and emotions, like some psychic Fourth of July fireworks display?

Whatever its cause, the effect seemed certain. What she anticipated was no longer a reliable guide to what would happen. And she could encounter people like the man at the hospital and not be aware of the danger he represented until it was too late.

Which brought into question her ability to sense other people’s motivations.

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