The Grim & The Dead by Amanda M. Lee

Author:Amanda M. Lee [Lee, Amanda M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: WinchesterShaw Publications
Published: 2018-12-11T06:00:00+00:00

AFTER FINISHING OUR SKYPE call with Dad, Aisling and Griffin disappeared upstairs and left me to finish my work. Technically, I finished the second I sent the souls to the gate workers, but I wasn’t quite ready to put the day behind me so I pretended otherwise.

Tolliver stopped by the office long enough to tell me that he was leaving and would be turning on the security system. I thanked him, asked about the reboot, and found that things had been running normally all day. Once he was gone, the house was completely quiet and I was left with my thoughts.

I spent a good twenty minutes staring out the window behind Dad’s desk. It was dark outside, I could see very little, but it was somehow soothing. The stillness served as a salve, and I was happy to lose myself in the silence.

That’s where Aisling found me shortly before it was time to go to bed and ruined everything.

“Are you okay?”

I glanced over my shoulder and narrowed my eyes. “What are you doing up? I thought you and Griffin would be knee deep in gummy sharks and each other right about now.”

“We’re doing that in a few minutes.” Aisling moved closer to me. “I wanted to check on you before going to bed. You seemed ... quiet ... after Dad called.”

“Everyone is quiet compared to you.”

“Yeah, well, you were quieter than usual.”

“I’m fine.” That was the truth. “Why wouldn’t I be?”

“Because of the kid,” Aisling answered simply, holding her hands palms up. “I shouldn’t have dumped him on you. That wasn’t fair. I would like to say that I regret my actions, but I didn’t want to be the one to absorb him, and I’m not sorry.

“The thing is, I didn’t want you to have to absorb him either,” she continued. “I never see the lists when Dad doles out the assignments. He makes sure of that. I didn’t realize he was keeping kids from me until you mentioned it earlier.”

“I shouldn’t have said that,” I offered. “It wasn’t fair to you. Dad kept kids from all of us for the first few years we started reaping. They’re not easy. You’ve barely been doing this six months. I was fine taking David.”

“How bad was it?”

I shrugged, noncommittal. “I wanted to pretend it wasn’t as bad as it really was,” I said finally. “I wanted to cry. The kid was strong. He understood he was going to Heaven, that he was dead. He understood his parents had broken hearts but there was nothing he could do for them. He was wise beyond his years.”

“You wanted to cry. I would’ve cried.”

“I don’t think that’s necessarily bad,” I hedged. It was rare for Aisling and me to have deep conversations. I wasn’t sure what to make of this one, but I didn’t want to turn it into an argument, so I chose my words carefully. “He was a sweet kid and it was a bad situation. “No one said being a reaper was easy.

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