Daughter's Need (The Fixers of KarmaCorp Book 6) by Audrey Faye

Author:Audrey Faye [Faye, Audrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fireweed Publishing LTD
Published: 2017-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

Tameka held up a bottle and nodded at a deck chair that had a second bottle waiting on its arm. “Apple cider. Last year’s, so it has a good kick.”

A lot of things on this planet met that description. Raven took a seat in the other chair, appreciating the unimpeded view of the night sky. “Is Tatiana asleep?” She could feel mother and daughter both close by.

“Yes.” The old Fixer took another sip of her cider and waited.

Raven hid a grin. This one had grandmother written all over her skin. “Did Yesenia send you here to guard the node?”

She could hear the eyebrows go up, even in the dark. “You don’t dance around things much.”

Not when directness served better. “We always wondered why a legend retired into the middle of nowhere.”

Tameka snorted. “Trainees will wonder dumb things until the end of time. Here suits me. I like the space, nobody pulls me over when I take my b-pod for a joyride, and the people have a decency the rest of the galaxy would do well to learn from.”

Raven knew when someone had found deep home and roots in a place. “So if Yesenia tells you to go somewhere else tomorrow, you’ll just pack your bags?”

“I retired long ago, Shaman. I’m not at Yesenia Mayes’s beck and call. Never was, really.”

Now they were getting somewhere. “How much did you know?”

“Enough to know she’d shaken a man who had sworn never to shake again.”

Raven hovered at the edge of that story. Waited politely to see if it would be offered this night. And when it wasn’t, moved gently away. However deep in this Regalis Marsden’s fingers might be, it didn’t feel right to push. “Tell me about him.”

Tameka gave her a look of some surprise and took a slow swig of cider. “I’d be interested for you to tell me about him. You’ve seen him far more recently than I have. And shaken him for a third time.”

That was awfully well informed for someone in the middle of nowhere. “He’s a man who believes the universe will only be safe if he can control enough pieces.” She shrugged, not sure how to put into words what she knew with certainty in her heart. “He’s obviously never lived in a jungle.”

Tameka nearly choked on her cider. She cleared her throat and grinned wryly. “That he hasn’t. And you’re right about his need to control. He doesn’t do it for his own gain, but with that kind of power comes a certain narrowness of vision.”

They were agreed on that. “He doesn’t understand tribe.”

A slow nod. “And you don’t understand one who could forsake tribe for the greater good.”

“Without tribe, there is no greater good.”

“That would be why you shook him. And why you may, in the end, need to stare him down again. But don’t take him lightly. He has sacrificed far more than most could even begin to fathom in service to a people he professes not to need.”

It took a moment to find the vibration that mattered.

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