Mend (Rift Walkers #2) by Elana Johnson

Author:Elana Johnson [Johnson, Elana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01M0NHPNX
Publisher: AEJ Creative Works
Published: 2016-12-11T00:00:00+00:00

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I WAKE UP WHEN MY DAD BARGES into my room, his face earnest and eager. When he sees me sitting in bed, clutching my blanket in my fists, he sags against the wall.

“Uh, good morning?” I say. My brain feels foggy, but even I know his behavior isn’t right.

“You’re here.”

I think of the many midnight jams I used to perform—things I haven’t done since Cascade went through the rift to take her sister home.

“Of course I’m here.”

Dad pulls an unfamiliar chair from my Link station, moves it next to my unfamiliar bed, and sits. “You don’t remember?”

“Remember what?”

Bits and pieces of memory float in my mind, snatches of a plan, of seeing Cascade without her eye enhancements. I glance around my room, noting that it is definitely not the bedroom I’ve lived in for the past several years. We don’t live in the house in the suburbs anymore, and a jolt of fear races through my blood.

“You’ve been gone for three days.” The somber way he speaks tells me this isn’t a joke.

“Gone?”

“Dead, gone, vanished, disappeared.” He sighs and runs his hand up the back of his head. “Erased.”

“I don’t get—”

“You and Heath went through the rift at the Time Bureau three days ago.” He raises his eyebrows. “To go back and warn Cascade and her family about a fire that kills them all.”

At once, everything that happened since I entered the rift at the Time Bureau rushes back to me. My eyes fly between my father’s. “What happened?” My voice sounds like it belongs to someone else. Someone else who swallowed a lot of chalk and then tried to speak.

“Cascade and Heath moved through time to save you.” A tender look accompanies the words, but I don’t know what to do with it. My dad always seemed made of steel when speaking about Cascade.

He gestures to the room around him. “And look around. You don’t have the same life you used to.” A vein of worry rides between the syllables, almost like he’s concerned I won’t like this life.

I’ll admit, I’m worried about that too. I flip the blanket off my legs and get out of bed. I move to the huge wall of windows and look out—over the entire city of Castle Pines.

“We live downtown?”

“Top floor of our technology firm.” Dad joins me at the window, close but not touching. Which is great, because my skin feels like it’s on fire.

“So no house in the suburbs.”

“No,” he says. “My great-grandfather got out of the time travel business sixty years ago. Went into gadgets and inventing technology instead.”

I think of Harlem Ryerson’s doppelganger, Orville Opensahw. “So that must mean Orville…”

“His family has what ours used to.”

I stare at my dad. “And you’re okay with this?”

“I am, yes. We have everything we used to.” He claps his hand on my shoulder. “Look around the Link, you’ll see it all.”

He leaves me alone in my massive bedroom, wondering if I’ll see Cascade on the Link.

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