Talia's Bodyguard by Lisa Daniels

Author:Lisa Daniels [Daniels, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-19T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven – Talia

Three days later, Talia received a phone call that nobody wants to hear. The kind of call that sent all the hot blood in her body cold, and frosted up her lungs, making it hard to form words.

Your father has had an accident, along with your sister.

Both of them were in a car together, heading towards a meeting, some important arrangement that neither could apparently get out of.

They said it was a normal accident, just some stupid T-boning from a drunk driver who wasn’t looking where he was going.

Yet this drunk driver had conveniently hit her family, and died in the crash.

All the information burbled over her, starting with the call from the police, who wanted to check in with her, due to her relationship with Rosen, and of course, an important figure being caught in an accident generated mass hysteria. Social media was an awful, vile cesspit of hate and fear. Some people tried to pray for Rosen and her father, but many more seemed utterly delighted that these two were hospitalized.

I hope they die, the maggot eaters.

All the souls in hell are waiting for these two, now all we need to do is kill the youngest daughter and we’ve got the set.

Insult after insult poured through the feeds, and Janos had to gently yank her away from the self-torture. She wasn’t allowed to visit either of them as they were both in intensive care.

Why didn’t they have protection for themselves? Talia thought. Why her, and not them? They needed protection as much as she did. They needed werewolves or whatever was handy. And now they were injured, and all the powers they possessed couldn’t save them. People who had healing powers were virtually extinct in this day and age. Corporations tended to kill or negate them so that they could sell their own marketed goods as cures. Spontaneous healers, after all, were pretty bad for business. There was a big purge in the 70s, where governments across the world claimed they were rounding up healers to allocate them to hospitals, and the healers themselves happily went along.

Four years later, the secret came out. They weren’t being allocated at all. They were killed, or their magic taken from them. The medical market industry skyrocketed since people could no longer find a healer to cure them of whatever ailment dragged them low.

Talia waited now in the reception ward for news. Any kind of news regarding her family members. In particular, she didn’t want Rosen to die, and felt almost guilty for prioritizing her sister over her own father.

But Rosen had always been kinder to her. The only one who really looked out for her, even when things changed and she wasn’t around quite so often, plunged into the chaos of her new blossoming career.

She’d tried perusing the shitty magazines in the waiting area, had Janos take her phone from her completely to stop looking at bad news and vitriol, and once, under a fresh wave of anxiety, found him patting her back, not saying anything, but offering the comfort of his presence.

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