The Demon Abraxas by Calish Rachel

Author:Calish, Rachel [Calish, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay & Lesbian
ISBN: 9781594933790
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2013-10-09T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

For the eighth day in a row Ana woke before dawn. She wondered if she was developing insomnia from the trauma of the kidnapping, but Abraxas assured her that she needed less sleep with his energy in her body. Gunnar said early morning was a good time to break into a place, so they decided to meet at Helen’s at six a.m. She’d waited with poor patience through two days at work that seemed ridiculously boring compared to everything going on in her life.

Now that it was the day of the big break-in, she still had an hour until she was due to meet him at Helen’s. She checked the street for strange cars and then, seeing nothing out of the ordinary, went for a short run. Her usual two-mile jog seemed effortless.

“You’re changing me, aren’t you?” she asked Abraxas. “Will this reverse when you leave me?”

You’ll need more sleep again, he answered. Do you want me to put the rest of your body’s systems back the way they were?

She sprinted up the street toward her house and it felt good. There should be some trade-off for the fact that she couldn’t kiss Sabel without Abraxas experiencing it as well.

“As long as my eternal soul isn’t in jeopardy, I think I’ll stay like this,” she told him.

Showered and dressed in her best breaking-and-entering clothes, she drove over to Helen’s building and waited around the corner. She’d gone business casual for this with gray slacks and a light cashmere sweater. In this neighborhood, no one would look twice at a woman in that outfit.

Her phone rang and Gunnar said simply, “I’m in front.”

Shaking her head, Ana got out of her car and walked around to the front of Helen’s apartment building. The day she heard her brother put together more than a few words at a time would be a miracle. But she shouldn’t complain, he’d driven out here to pick a lock for her, not something an ordinary brother would do. Nothing about their relationship was ordinary, and she just wished that most of it weren’t quite so broken, and that she hadn’t been the one who broke it.

He stood by the front door like a stone statue wrapped in rumpled and stained denim, ending in enormous boots. His tool belt hung low on his waist. Somehow he managed to bring South Dakota with him all the way to San Francisco, except in this city his farm-boy hands and rough demeanor seemed more charming than threatening. Ana smiled at him and watched the lines around his mouth deepen in what passed for expression on his face. He held open the door for her.

“Seen better security in a 7-11,” Gunnar said as they walked up the central stairs together.

“Nothing you would want in there or here,” she replied.

He made an eloquent grunt, indicating that he agreed, he’d never bother to break in to a place like this, this was a favor for his little sister, and even if there was something worth stealing, he was long past that now.

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