Tangled Threads by Jennifer Estep

Author:Jennifer Estep [Estep, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9781439192634
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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“T-tr-train yard. I-I—jumped in river. Down—downstream now. Finn—Finn has the girl.” I knew that I wasn’t making a lot of sense, but I just couldn’t think. I couldn’t move, I couldn’t do anything. My whole body, my mind, everything was just numb. Dead and numb. “Are you hurt? Where are you?” The phone slipped from my deadweight fingers and plopped onto the muddy riverbank. “Gin? Gin?” Owen’s voice was the last thing that I remembered hearing before the world went com- pletely cold, dead, and black. Tangled Threads

19 “Gin!” the hoarse, worried whisper roused me out of the liquid blackness I’d been so peacefully drifting along in. “Gin! Are you out here?” The sound of my own name startled me the rest of the way awake, and my eyes snapped open. At least, I thought that they opened. I certainly wanted them to. But since the world still remained pitch-black, I wasn’t quite sure about that. After a moment, the events of the night filled my mind, vague flickers and flashes of im- ages that should have made more sense to me than they did. McAllister and LaFleur eating at the Pork Pit. Me sneaking into the rail yard. Finding Natasha. Torching the old depot to create a distraction. LaFleur’s eerie green lightning racing along the metal rails toward me. That last one made me shudder. Her power had hurt so much— “Gin!” the voice called again. And now someone was out here looking for me in the dark—but was it friend or foe? “We’ve looked everywhere,” a second voice said. “She’s not here, and she’s not answer- ing her cell.” A woman. That was a woman talking. My mind wasn’t working quite the way it should, but I knew I didn’t want a woman to find me. Didn’t want Elektra LaFleur to find me. I shuddered and curled into an even tighter ball, barely daring to breathe. If the other assassin discovered me now, she’d finish me off with her lightning. Then LaFleur would go after Bria, Finn, and everyone else I cared about, and there would be no one to stop her. I wouldn’t be around to stop her— “Let me concentrate,” the first person rumbled again. A man, given the deep pitch of his voice. Some small part of my mind frowned. That voice sounded … familiar. Why? Why did it sound so familiar? Why did I like the deep, rumbling sound of it so much? Why did I want to call out and answer it? I felt a bit of magic surge to life somewhere nearby. But it wasn’t LaFleur’s crackling elec- trical power or Mab Monroe’s red-hot Fire magic. Surprisingly, this magic felt similar to my own Stone power—cold, still, calm, comforting. Not exactly the same, but it wasn’t the com- plete wrongness of another element either. “This way.” Something rustled over my head, and I heard heavy footsteps. Someone’s boots squished in the mud, getting closer and closer with every step. I tried to

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