Something Sinister This Way Comes: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (Midlife Wishes Book 2) by R.K. Dreaming

Author:R.K. Dreaming [Dreaming, R.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-27T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

SIGOURNEY

Oberon chased me out of the house, and put his arm around me comfortingly as we walked up the drive.

He didn’t ask any questions, didn’t ask about Gaia, whose name he did not even know, even though he must’ve been extremely curious.

And I was glad for his silence, because the horribly seething emotions inside me were threatening to boil over. Even after my rocketing heartbeat had calmed down, which he must have sensed, sensitive and emotionally intelligent as he was, he still did not ask.

I gave him a hug, which I much needed, murmuring, “Thank you, Oberon.”

“For what?” he said.”

“For being you. For being so very good. However do you manage it all the time?”

I managed to chuckle, but tears seeped out of my eyes, and I wiped them away quickly, embarrassed that he would see.

He gazed down at me solemnly, my little brother who looked so like our dangerous father with his dark hair and his widow’s peak and his crystal clear green eyes, but who I had grown to feel a love for that I had never expected.

“Are you okay, Sigourney?” he asked me so seriously.

“I will be. I will be, once we catch The Reaper,” I added fiercely.

“Do you think Charming might be right?” said Oberon hesitantly. “That The Reaper might be this guy, Polliver?”

I shook my head, but said, “I don’t know. It can’t be. You don’t understand what my gifts used to be like. There was this psychic music that was there all the time, even when I got so used to it that I stopped being aware of it. It was like it used to resonate off the very substance of reality. It would be gloomy or glad, jarring or sad, and there was so much that I could sense from it. It was so incredible. I miss it. How could I have that, and never know that Polliver, who was right in front of my eyes, could be such a beast? It couldn’t be.”

I shook my head fiercely. It just couldn’t be.

“But you will be careful?” said Oberon, looking worried.

“Of course.” I laughed a little. “I’m always careful. That’s me all over. Lifetime of practice.”

“Hmm.” Oberon did not look convinced. “I have a feeling that you’ve discarded your lifetime of practice these days.”

I punched him jokingly in the arm. “Stop being so perceptive.”

“What about this Mockingbird thing?” he said.

I explained that the criminal Troy Mockingbird had been found dead outside Brimstone Bay and that Polliver had made me look over the scene.

“I think my psychic powers might be coming back,” I admitted, not knowing how to explain that I had lost and somewhat regained them because of wishes.

“That’s great!” he exclaimed, looking relieved, as if he understood full well how much this meant to me.

“Polliver wanted me to tell him who killed those men.” I lowered my voice. “There was a witness who got away, but I can’t tell him yet. Can’t trust the man one inch.”

We had paused down the street from my house, Oberon musing over what I had said.

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