Twisted Shadows by Allie Therin

Author:Allie Therin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Published: 2024-09-18T19:07:35+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

“...and Duncan has the puck, lines up the shot—Henderson out of nowhere, smashing him from behind!

Oh, Duncan didn’t like that, he’s taking a swing—he’s got Henderson’s helmet off, you can see the red on the ice, and now West is getting involved with Grande, this is looking like a big one, folks—

Hang on, we’re getting word that a fan has just collapsed, possibly fainted. Paramedics are rushing into the stands and—

Are you kidding me? Who brought an empath to the game?”

—TRANSCRIPT EXCERPT, HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA BROADCAST

“What the hell was that?”

“What was what?”

Reece gestured behind them. “You just flew over that bridge without slowing at all. Don’t you know an overpass can ice in inclement weather?”

“This is Seattle. All of your weather is inclement.”

“It is not.”

“I got here last night and it has yet to stop raining.”

“Then you should know the rain could have frozen on the overpass and you need to exercise a little caution and stop driving like you’re on some sunny country back road—although I hope you also know your current speed isn’t legal on any road in Texas either.”

“Maybe you’re trying to backseat drive your way behind my steering wheel,” Grayson said, “but, sugar, you can keep right on trying ’cause it’s not gonna happen. I’ll just add unrepentant backseat driver to your EI file and keep the keys.”

Obviously Reece wasn’t trying to annoy Grayson into handing over the truck keys. Obviously he was way too mature for something like that.

He sat back against the seat with a huff, then huffed again. He’d swapped the giant Texas hoodie for a warmer fleece, and folding his arms was now annoyingly less satisfying without the dramatic flare of too-long sleeves. “But you’re not even driving her in the right terrain mode. It’s like you don’t even care about traction control or throttle response or public safety.”

There was a moment of silence, then Grayson fiddled with the buttons. “There. Weather mode. Better?”

Grayson wasn’t sharing emotions, but that hadn’t felt passive-aggressive. It felt like Grayson had actually listened to his empath bitching and taken him seriously. “Maybe a little,” Reece grudgingly admitted. “EI already knows I’m a backseat driver anyway, don’t they? Everything I’ve done from birth to today is in some EI file.”

“It’s supposed to be.” Grayson had kept his eyes fixedly forward as he said that.

“That’s not exactly the same thing as saying yes,” Reece pointed out. “Is there something you know isn’t in my file?”

“Why would there be?”

“Don’t dodge the question,” Reece said. “I don’t care if you’re the Dead Man—that won’t work on an empath. What’s missing from my file?”

Grayson didn’t answer for a moment, like he was choosing his words, because it didn’t seem to matter that Reece couldn’t hear the difference; Grayson tended to evade or misdirect instead of outright lie. An echo of who he’d been, perhaps? Maybe he’d been an honest person before he’d become the government’s tool?

“You already know I’ve never met another empath like you,” Grayson finally said. “One who’s got some of the enhanced abilities but kept the pacifism.

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