Black Blood by Melissa Pearl

Author:Melissa Pearl [Pearl, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Love, History, Paranormal, adventure action
Publisher: Melissa Pearl
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Beverly Beach, Florida – 2011 AD

Twenty-five minutes later Gemma could hear the rumble of a Harley engine pulling up behind her. She swiveled from her spot in the sand and watched Gabe leap off his bike and stride towards her. He oozed a calm confidence that she found both mesmerizing and off-putting. Standing from her spot, she brushed her shorts and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear as he came to a stop in front of her.

“What happened? Where’s Harrison?” Gabe’s voice was soft.

“Um…” Instant tears lined her lashes. She brushed them aside and shoved her hands into the back pockets of her denim shorts. “He doesn’t exist anymore.”

She missed one tear and felt it slide off the end of her chin.

Gabe’s eyes swirled with compassion. She glanced up to meet them and realized for the first time she was looking at someone who actually understood. The revelation made the fog within her dissipate and all the emotion she had been ignoring was exposed… a raw tender wound that burned.

The tears she had not yet shed bubbled over like a waterfall. Her whole body convulsed with release. Her pitiful tears grew to stomach shaking sobs that worked up her body. She curled over on herself and let the anguish take her.

Without a word, Gabe wrapped her in a firm embrace.

Her first instinct was to pull away, but her body was shaking too badly. The arms around her reminded her of Harrison and so she clung.

Time vanished as Gabe shushed her and stroked her hair. She held on like a small child and drained her body of the excess sorrow that had been building over the weeks.

As her sobs ebbed to hiccupy breaths, Gabe rubbed her back and drew her body away so he could look at her.

“I need you to tell me exactly what happened. You think you can do that?”

Gemma’s head bobbed as she sniffed and wiped her nose with the back of her hand. A large handkerchief was resting in her fingers a moment later and she used it to clean up her face.

“Here, sit down.”

She followed his instructions and found her words tumbling out in a jumbled explanation, starting with her fight with Harrison and ending with the black pit in hell her life had become.

“And there’s so much I don’t understand. Like why is all the stuff I had of his gone? The red baggy shirt he let me take home. I can’t find it anywhere, yet I know he gave it to me. I remember it so clearly.” She shook her head in frustration. “But history’s changed and I know that never happened now. I don’t get how it works.”

Gabe looked at the ocean as he spoke. “Practicing time spirits have dual memories. You remember life before and after the changes in history… just like I remember meeting with Harrison two weeks ago, but the waitress that served us breakfast will never know, because for her it never happened.”

Gemma’s cauldron bubbled as parts of her fragmented last words with Harrison jumbled in her mind.

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