Soul Screamers 04A - Reaper by Rachel Vincent

Author:Rachel Vincent [Vincent, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-10-08T04:00:00+00:00

“Where are we?” I pulled my hand from Levi’s even as the world solidified around me, and I was glad to be rid of the feel of dead flesh. Not that his hand felt different than any other hand, but knowing it was attached to a dead kid kind of creeped me out.

As did the sudden realization that my hand was now also attached to a dead kid.

“This is where they live now,” he said stepping off the sidewalk and onto the grass, lit only by a streetlight on the corner.

I didn’t recognize the house. I only knew the town because we’d lived there as kids, before my dad died. But this time, my mom had settled into the older section of a large development. She’d found a corner lot, but the house was too small to have three bedrooms.

There was no room for me.

And though I knew I wouldn’t be moving back in, even if I took the job, that fact still stung much more than I’d expected. Mom and Nash were trying to move on from my death, and my presence would only disrupt their adjustment. The last thing I wanted was to make it harder for them.

So why had Levi brought me?

“What is this, a bribe? I thought potential reapers were supposed to be above bribes.”

He shrugged. “If you’re going to take the job, there’s something you need to understand first.”

“Something beyond the fact that I’m dead and invisible, and I was evidently dressed by Edward Scissorhands?”

Levi ignored my sarcasm. “Yes. Officially, I’m supposed to explain to you that no matter how alive you might look, and feel, and even function, you’re not alive. Not like your friends and family are. You died, and your soul was removed from your body, and even though you’ve been reanimated, you don’t truly belong here. And you never will. I’m supposed to tell you that the sooner you come to terms with that fact, the sooner you can start to accept your new state of being and your job. And the sooner your family and friends can start to accept your death.”

I frowned, arms crossed over my chest. “That sounds like advice from the Grim Reaper website.”

“The recruiting handbook, actually, but you obviously get the idea.”

“Yeah. So if I’m supposed to be letting everyone move on, why did you bring me here?”

“Because I think that steering you away from your family is just going to make you more determined to see them. You need to understand that stepping back into their lives would only be making things worse. They’ll think they have you back, but when you start becoming more reaper, and less son and brother, they’ll just have to let you go all over again. A clean break is easiest for all involved.”

Maybe. But anyone who’s ever broken a bone knows that even a clean break hurts like hell.

“Are you going in?” he asked at last, squinting up at me in the light from the street lamp.

“You can walk through doors and climb through windows, but walls and floors will be barriers.

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