Chaos & Communion by Jamie Craig

Author:Jamie Craig [Craig, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, General, Gay, Gay & Lesbian
ISBN: 9781602729445
Publisher: Amber Quill Press, LLC
Published: 2008-03-19T13:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14 Michelle checked her watch again, even though she knew precisely what time it was. She had plans besides babysitting Jesse and Gideon on their way back to their own dimension, and their tardiness was severely fucking up those plans. A part of her wanted to go look for them, but if they were only very late, and she wasn't here when they arrived, everything would be ruined anyway.

So she stayed put, counting the lost seconds and minutes until the area behind her eyes began to ache. Jesse had seemed like a smart boy. Smart enough to understand what would happen if they missed the rendezvous time. But then, he seemed utterly devoted to that damned vampire, so how smart could he possibly be?

Michelle knew one thing—she would not be cleaning up their mess. They had promised to keep up their side of the deal. They had promised to leave when it was time to leave. Of course, she did consider the fact that they were dead, but in that case, there would be no mess to clean up. And if they were merely injured? They should have tried to reach her.

She paced, watching the very fabric of the dimension begin to wear thin and fade. The spell was beginning. She checked her watch again. They had two minutes. Two minutes to avoid the biggest fuck-up of their existence. Michelle did not have a lot of hope.

* * * * It had been the longest week of Emma's life. Longer than the time she had spent imprisoned in Andre's house, wondering if she was going to become one of the living art arrangements or something worse. Longer than the days Jesse had been missing in New York, when she and Gideon had ransacked the city looking for him, fearing the worst. Even knowing where they were or what they were doing didn't help, for a whole host of reasons.

She just wanted them back. She didn't care anymore about why they had left. Her bed was cold, and her heart ached, and all she wanted was to be able to hold onto Jesse and Gideon again and never let go.

Emma shivered against the cold, wrapping her arms more tightly around her. Michelle stood in the middle of the abandoned street, mouth firm, eyes intent. Her attention was fixed on the spot Gideon and Jesse had disappeared from five days earlier. Everywhere else, the world looked normal, but in the circle she had inscribed on the concrete, appearances had changed. There was almost a line of demarcation, where a building on the opposite side of the street was solid on one side, and translucent on the other. Like someone had taken it and erased half of its substance. An effect of opening the portal to the other dimension, but it was still eerie, all the same.

"How much longer?" Emma called out. The first time Michelle had done this, the portal had only been open for seconds. And Emma hadn't been paying any attention to the portal itself.

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