sedona files 05 - falling angels by pope christine

Author:pope, christine [Pope, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Dark Valentine Press
Published: 2016-01-31T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Thirty-six hours was not a lot of time when it came to covering vast interstellar distances, even in a ship as amazing as Raphael’s. We had to leave right away.

“But I don’t have anything with me!” I protested. “No changes of clothes, no toothpaste…no deodorant, for God’s sake!”

“I can provide all of that,” he said, clearly not all that worried by my lack of hair serum to fight the frizzies. “It will be fine. I will be with you the entire time.”

“And what am I supposed to tell my parents?” Jesus, talk about flipping out. Having them discover that I’d been intimate with Raphael was a drop in the bucket compared to having to inform them that I was about to travel halfway across the galaxy to face some sort of tribunal.

“The truth, of course.” He extended a hand, and suddenly my purse was dangling from his fingers, even though I distinctly recalled leaving it in the dining room. “Although I would suggest that sending a text might be less complicated than an actual phone call.”

Not bothering to ask how he’d managed to conjure my purse from one side of his ship to the other, I took my bag from him and dug out my phone. “Um, I’m pretty sure that AT&T doesn’t exactly reach this far.”

“No need to worry about that. I’ll make sure the message gets to them.”

Of course he would. I wanted to ask if there was anything he couldn’t manage; so far it seemed as if the answer was no. However, I wholeheartedly agreed with his assessment that it would be better to send a text. Yes, avoiding an actual conversation was the coward’s way out, but I was okay with being a coward right then.

So I unlocked my phone, ignored the blinking “No Service” message in the upper right-hand corner of the display, and started typing on the screen. Normally, I dictated all my texts so the process wasn’t so time-consuming, but I wasn’t sure I really wanted to have Raphael overhear what I had to say. Maybe I was being unnecessarily cautious. After all, there was a very good chance he’d still be able to read the message as he helped it zoom across thousands of miles of low-orbit space, all of which were woefully lacking in any cellular towers, the last time I checked.

Short and sweet would probably work best here. My fingers moved over the screen as I desperately attempted to come up with a message that would give my parents the gist of what was going on without turning them into nervous wrecks. Somehow I had the feeling I’d fail in that objective no matter what I said.

Mom, Dad, I’ve run into a teeny speed bump. I guess when I zapped those Reptilians at their base, I didn’t know my own strength, and one of them didn’t make it. Now the Assembly needs me to give my version of what happened, since the Reptilians aren’t happy. Raphael is going to take me and make sure everything goes smoothly.

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