Veiled Eyes by C.L. Bevill

Author:C.L. Bevill
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: 1 paranormal, 2 louisiana, 3 lake people, 4 psychic, 5 cajun, 6 creole

Chapter 16

Sunday, December 21st

They say that no man or boy is to whistle, under pain of chastisement, while underground in a mine. The whistling will frighten away the ore or bring the roof down upon their very heads or bring the devil up to see what the matter is.

Anna. Now what is she up to? Gabriel couldn’t help the turbulent thoughts that cascaded through his mind like violent waterfalls. She was nothing like any woman he’d ever known. Full of doubt and uncertainty, she was also stubborn and willful.

But then she wasn’t raised with the family. He’d dreamt of her for years. Throughout that time a smattering of her thoughts had trickled out of an intermittently dripping faucet, tantalizing him, maddening him. It had made him bitter so that when Gabriel was finally faced with her, he had allowed his frustration to get the better of him.

But she wasn’t a manipulative tormenting siren. When she thought no one was observing her, she looked at children longingly. She let dreams of permanence slip unfettered from her thoughts. She wanted what others had had all their lives, and it dangled before her, some tempting morsel on a fishhook just out of reach.

Gabriel slowly shook his head, trying to clear it.

Anna was thinking of Meg Theriot again. The conja woman. The same one that his own mother had wanted him to see to seek relief from the increasing dreams of Anna, dreams of her as she had come closer to him. But Gabriel knew about Meg. He knew what really enticed her, and he knew he would never see her in that capacity. She was nothing more than a con artist with only a smidgen of the gift.

But Anna, what would she ask Meg? And worse, what would be the answers she would receive? Meg had never liked Gabriel because she knew he could see inside her black heart, and Gabriel didn’t bother hiding his distrust of her. It was true some outsiders could be trusted, but Meg, like Anna, had been raised in a covetous world where money was a god, and only the rich were to be envied. It had warped the older woman. Grudging acceptance of her had come at a price. Meg was one of the family but had no friends among them.

Not so Anna. Gabriel had raged at her, but it wasn’t her fault. She didn’t know to come back. Not until it was almost too late. Stubborn and willful, he thought. Curious as a cat and dangerous. But she is naïve, trusting, childlike. Anna was contradiction personified. True, she was an innocent to her gifts, and the young went through a stage of exaggerating the emotions from others they felt, but she felt so sure that something was wrong with Meg. She hadn’t said exactly what.

Gabriel sifted around his thoughts searching for clues. How can she possibly know what has happened to Meg? If he concentrated, he could see the outline of her thoughts beneath their protective wall.

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