Stolen Time by J. M. Brink

Author:J. M. Brink
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Children & Teens
Published: 2013-02-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Serena sat frowning. He’s a perfect moron! I’m not lying about changing history you wretched shirgrin. Space and time both are a lot more complicated than you … she was berating him in her mind, wholly uninterested in what Greenbriar was saying, and considering interrupting him to voice some of her choicer thoughts when his voice broke into them.

“… remember a certain pretty and promising little dancer who …”

Serena’s heart froze in a brief pang of terror before she burst out laughing as she tried to picture an Anerix agent bothering her tiny beloved. At Greenbriar’s puzzled expression she laughed even harder, a stitch forming in her side. Serena was none too worried about Georgia, she could take care of herself. Then logic caught up. Terror once again froze her heart as Serena realised all the things that could be done from afar with guns, bombs, and more esoteric means. She also feared for Crystabel’s safety as she thought of the typical competence of crazed megalomaniacs and how likely it would be that they would target her by mistake, and Crys was far less proficient at precision violence.

The momentum of the laughter meant she was able to keep it up for a few moments and thus hide her fears. Eyes streaming, she gasped, “First off, if you want me to do any bloody thing besides test a theory I’ve just conceived that one can castrate a man by repeatedly kicking him in the crotch then I’d suggest you never so much as think of harming Georgia. Second, the likelihood of one of your bungling idiots managing to do more than die trying to hurt her is incalculably slim. Finally, the trouble you’re already in with some very talented and vengeful people for kidnapping me is nothing compared to what you’ll find yourself in if you give my fiancée so much as a split end.”

“Professor, do not underestimate me. True, I do need you. It would likely take many years of work to get where you could in a day, just in terms of familiarity with the theories and equations, never mind actually understanding them. Still, despite that, if you become enough of a bother, you also become expendable. Now, I don’t imagine you’d like to see Georgia suffer for your stupidity or stubbornness. I also know of your family in Dublin, and you grandmother in … Kent, is it? Earth is not outside of my reach. Should your feelings for Georgia prove to have been overestimated I think I could find one among your family for whom you care or among your friends. Your boyfriend in your little band is another who could suffer for your lack of co-operation. Their continued good health is in your hands regardless what you might believe. As to your supposed rescuers I doubt their prowess and, frankly, question their existence. You cannot frighten me, but if I must I assuredly could frighten you madam.”

As he turned to leave the room he added, “You are a lovely and intriguing woman.

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