Nathan Returns by Jason Zandri

Author:Jason Zandri [Zandri, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-09-14T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Lisa made her way into the bar at 515 Third Avenue and found Nathan sitting at the corner table immediately inside the door. He smiled at her and gestured to the seat.

“Sorry I ordered already but I was starved,” he said with a mouthful of food.

“No worries,” she said and sat down across from him on the raised stool. “So, I take it this will be one of the last conversations we have for a while.”

“Probably,” Nathan said while picking up a couple of sweet potato fries. He motioned to Lisa to take some. “My powers are back to normal. They are only enabling when there is a threat to address.”

“And that means you’ll likely only be here in New York City when there’s an emergency. Does it sound bad that I’m hoping for a crisis or two?” Lisa asked, picking a fry off the plate.

The waitress came over, and Lisa gestured to have the same thing that Nathan had: a beer and a plate of sweet potato fries.

“Maybe a little,” Nathan said. “But you’re right, now that I’m staying … elsewhere; I’m only here, generally, when the need arises.”

“Make sure before you go that you stop off and see Adia and Officer O’Malley. They’d be upset if you left without doing so.”

“I already saw Jack on the way over,” Nathan said, and then took a drink of beer. “He wished me well, told me to be careful, keep up the fight, and that sort of thing. He seemed to have some reservations about Rebecca.”

“Oh?” Lisa said, widening her eyes to feign innocence. “What did he say?”

Nathan frowned at her, and then smiled slightly. “Oh, you know, the same thing you’re going to say … the same thing Adia is going to say later. Only he says it in his Brooklyn accent, and Adia’s will come across in her Puerto Rican one.”

Lisa smiled. “Okay, it’s true. We are all worried about her. As part of that, we’re all worried about you.”

“So let me help settle you,” Nathan said and ate more fries. “What are you worried about? I can get Adia’s take later when I talk to her.”

The waitress came by with Lisa’s beer and fries and looked at Nathan. He held up his glass for a refill.

“Well,” Lisa said. “For one thing, we all understand the want and desire to be with someone. I am more understanding as to why you broke it off with Adia and, being objective, I can see why this could work. I suppose there’s the age difference between you and Rebecca, too, somewhere in the ballpark of fifteen years, but that’s minor on the scale.”

“And how do you know how old she is?” Nathan asked.

“Well, she was a professor and did have a couple of papers published, so there’s information out there on her. She’s thirty-nine …”

“And I am twenty-six; that’s a thirteen year age difference. That’s not outrageously outside an acceptable norm. Of course, there’s also the whole ‘special gift’ commonality too,” Nathan said.

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