Rare Earth by Davis Bunn

Author:Davis Bunn [Bunn, Davis]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, FIC026000, FIC042000, FIC042060, Refugee camps—Kenya—Fiction, International relief—Kenya—Fiction, Mines and mineral resources—Kenya—Fiction
ISBN: 9780764209062
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Marc crossed the central compound to be met by the camp director, who handed him another list of urgently needed supplies. Kitra emerged from the medical facility and waited until the director thanked him and departed. She then walked ahead of Marc to the baobab tree where she stood in its shade. Waiting.

Marc stepped up beside her. He saw the tense way she gripped her arms across her middle, and hated that he was the cause for such tension. Especially now. “There’s no room in my day for arguments. I’ve just come from witnessing miracles. And I can’t help but hope there is room for one more.”

A long breath slipped out, exposing the weary strain in her features. But she still would not look at him.

So he said it again. “I think it’s time that you trust me. I want to make your objectives my own. I see the pain of your brother’s disappearance. I see how you help these people. I have to trust that whatever secrets you carry are good ones. I want to help you make them—”

“You must go and speak with my father.”

He stopped. “What?”

“You won’t understand anything until you see it for yourself.”

“Your father,” he repeated.

“Yes.”

“In Israel.”

“He will meet you at the Tel Aviv airport.”

“You’ve spoken with him?”

“That was who I had to call.”

“About me. Coming to Israel.”

“Will you go?”

“Kitra . . . Yes, I will.”

She looked at him then. A faint disquiet tainted her voice and her gaze. “Will you? Really?”

“Of course I’ll go. I thought . . .”

“You thought I would shut you out.” She sighed once more. “Perhaps I should. But I can’t.”

Marc could not stop his grin from surfacing. “You can’t?”

“This isn’t funny.”

“No. Well, yes. In a way it is. But I’m smiling because I’m happy.”

“I have never lied to you. Do you believe that?”

“I don’t just believe it, Kitra. I feel it in my heart. It’s the only way I can be standing here, talking with you like this. Because you have always told me the truth. Just, well, maybe not as much of the truth as I might have liked.”

“I’ve told you all I can.”

“All right. Sure. I can accept that.” The blood zinged through his veins. “You’re a good person in an impossible situation. I wish you would tell me what I don’t know, but if I have to go hear it from your father, fine.”

She started to reach for him. Her hand touched an invisible barrier between them, and stopped. Marc felt the sparks fly between her fingertips and him. Kitra murmured, “How is it you always know the right thing to say?”

He wanted to close the distance between them. But something inside said the first move had to be hers. “I’ll leave tomorrow.”

The chopper sounded on the horizon, a vague drumming that grew steadily louder. Calling him away. Kitra tried to smile, but her mouth could not seem to find the proper shape. “I hear your ride.”

He wished for nothing more than to stand there for hours, feeling the barriers between them crumble.

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