The Magic by Donna Augustine

Author:Donna Augustine [Augustine, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BA
Publisher: Strong Hold Publishing
Published: 2016-08-26T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

It took me two hours to find Dax along the western edge of the property. He was handing barbed wire up to one of the guys straddling the wooden fence.

He stepped back and then turned to another guy standing nearby who normally worked guard duty. “Good work, but this part here needs to be shored up.” He pointed to a wooden plank along the bottom that looked rotted.

The guy nodded and Dax walked over to where I was waiting, not far away.

“Why don’t I have a section?” I said, pointing at the fence. “We need every able body on this and I didn’t even know about it.”

He tugged my arm and pulled me farther away from where the people were working, nailing wood into places where there were gaps and attaching barbed wire along the tops.

“Because until today, you weren’t looking that good.” He was looking at me like he was checking my vitals. Was this how I looked at Bookie?

“As you can see, I’m fine.” I looked at the wall and did another mental count of the people we had while trying to figure out how much wall there was. I didn’t have accurate enough knowledge of either, but I went on a hunch I was right. “We don’t have enough time for anyone to not be pulling their weight. I don’t know how much time I’m going to be able to buy us.”

He crossed his arms. “So you’re going to keep going?”

“You know I am. I’ll go back there a hundred times if I have to.”

I didn’t finish as he started moving down the line of the wall.

“Dax, you know we don’t have a choice,” I said as I followed him. He didn’t acknowledge me or say a word, but he stopped when I grabbed his arm.

Sometimes when he looked at me the way he did now, the air between us seemed to charge. I couldn’t say if it was a good thing or a bad thing, but it was an intense thing. It was like the electric feel of air on a stormy night and you could hear the distant rumble of thunder, and a bolt of lightning would shoot down at any second. Part of me felt so alive, and another part of me wanted to hide from the storm.

“Dax, you know I’m right in doing what I’m doing. How many times are we going to fight about this? What is your problem with this? Is it that you don’t trust me? Or you don’t think I’m capable?”

One of the workers from the wall looked like they were about to walk over, and Dax shot him a glance that had him U-turning it. How did he do that so easily?

“Neither,” he said, seeing the remnants of the face the worker had just seen. Now it made sense.

“Then what is it?” I asked, refusing to U-turn it too.

“My gut tells me there’s something wrong.” He was staring at me as if to dare me to tell him his gut was wrong.

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