Raising Kane by Long Heather;

Author:Long, Heather; [Long, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 4833828
Publisher: Heather Long

Chapter 15

Kid, The Mountain

The rains swept across the mountain and washed the face of it clean during two days of hard deluge. Kid spent most of the storms in front of the fireplace in the main room, working on the ‘shield’ Quanto had explained. Learning how to filter out the emotions of others was both a blessing and a curse. Much like the damn gift itself.

Employing the concept, Quanto had explained hours earlier, worked differently for each individual. Some, he’d speculated, would possess a natural shield. Kid argued that he’d never met anyone he couldn’t read, but then, as the shaman pointed out, he’d not met every person in the world. Emotions, he also theorized, worked differently from thoughts and dreams. Jason had been able to keep Delilah from influencing him and she no longer seemed to have any sway over Buck.

“That is because she loves him,” Quanto had smiled, a hint of delighted pride, when he said those words. When Kid pressed him on the issue, he shrugged. “I have had a theory for many years and, in the last two, I have seen it bear fruit.”

Kid’s brows had climbed. “Would you like to share the theory or do you enjoy being vague and mysterious?”

The older man chuckled, a dry, warm sound. “Our gifts are very much a part of us, utterly and completely. We never desire harming that which is dear to us and I have always believed our gifts would recognize those who are deeply precious to us and protect them as we are protected from them.”

At no point could Kid recall a time when his gift protected him from its ravages, but the old shaman may have had a point. Delilah’s song had enchanted Buck, but after the near disaster on the ranch with young Tommy’s weather working abilities, Buck had said she’d sung and it hadn’t touched him. Scarlett never burned Sam, at least as far as Kid knew and he’d seen his brother walk through Scarlett’s fire to get to her. The flames didn’t so much as singe his clothing. Jo’s gift wouldn’t affect Micah one way or the other, so likely it had nothing to protect him from. That left Cody.

“And his gift changed Mariska,” he’d argued. “He bit and she changed. He infected her.” A point few challenged, particularly since Mariska wrestled with that truth before she accepted it. She wanted to be his mate and she wanted to be like him.

“Cody’s gift is very different. It is a part of him and in his blood, but perhaps there will always be exceptions.” That concession hadn’t pleased the older man and he turned them back to the theory of shields.

He’d suggested Kid construct something mentally he could envision as a barrier. The first thing that came to mind was the invisible boundary surrounding the Kane ranch. That barrier prevented Fevered from crossing onto their land unless invited by a Kane…and he’d invited an enemy firestarter across it without realizing how dangerous the man had been.

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