sedona files 06 - enemy mine by christine pope

Author:christine pope [pope, christine]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Dark Valentine Press
Published: 2016-05-27T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

My parents wanted us to stay for dinner, but I didn’t think that was a very good idea. Yes, I was heartened by how kind they were being to Gideon, and it made me hopeful for the future — whatever that future turned out to be. However, I knew I wanted to be back at the cottage long before night fell, and since it seemed as if Gideon was going to be staying there with me for the duration, I realized that I’d need to get him a few supplies.

So I thanked them but said we needed to go to the outlet mall in Oak Creek to get Gideon a few changes of clothes. He looked surprised by that comment but didn’t argue. And my father said he was going to be in touch with Lance and then Jeff Makowski, his hacker friend, and we’d see what we could do to circumvent the alien gizmo.

Right before we left, though, Gideon went out into the courtyard with my father so he could show him how to disengage the biometric locking mechanism and use the device’s backup lock instead. He needed to do that outside, away from us, just in case something went wrong.

My mother looked as if she wanted to protest, since risking my father’s safety wasn’t something she appreciated. But then she saw the light in his eyes and kept quiet, knowing that he was willing to take the risk in the pursuit of more knowledge.

After they’d gone outside, though, she turned toward me, a question clear in her face. “So,” she said, “do you want to tell me about you and Gideon?”

“There isn’t much to tell,” I replied, although I could feel the blood rise to my cheeks.

“Really? I would have guessed otherwise, from the way he was looking at you.”

I couldn’t deny that. From time to time during the conversation, probably when he thought they weren’t paying attention, Gideon had glanced over at me, his gaze catching mine. I’d always looked away quickly, worried that my parents might notice. My father, obviously excited to play with a new toy, didn’t seem to have detected any undercurrents between Gideon and me. But my mother must have been observing us with a much clearer eye.

“Does it bother you?” I asked.

The worry line between her brows deepened. “Of course it bothers me,” she said, then held up a hand as I began to protest. “Not for the reasons you might think, though. I’m not going to hold his father against him. It seems pretty clear to me that Gideon’s had a change of heart. And lord knows we have enough aliens and hybrids and so on in this little extended family of ours that it would be hypocritical of me to judge him solely on that. But Taryn….” She trailed off, as if she wasn’t quite sure what she’d meant to say, or at the very least had thought better of it.

“You’re afraid he’s going to hurt me?”

“Not intentionally. But he must have even less experience than you do, sweetie.

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