Tyr by JC Andrijeski

Author:JC Andrijeski [Andrijeski, JC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Sun Press
Published: 2021-03-24T05:00:00+00:00

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Tyr drove fast.

Even through New York City, and the outskirts of Philadelphia and Baltimore, Tyr drove the McLaren like it was an extension of his arms and feet, moving gracefully around cars, trucks, buses, vans, motorcycles, trailers, like water flowing around rocks in a stream.

It helped that traffic was relatively light. More people seemed to be leaving the urban sprawl of Northeastern cities, rather than driving towards it.

They didn’t talk much after they finished eating.

Even so, something about the silence felt strangely compatible.

Marion found it easy to be with him.

She even found it comforting.

Even knowing people might be trying to kidnap and/or kill her right now, she felt oddly safe with him, too. Something about that struck her as almost unnerving, just how at ease she felt with this total stranger, particularly given the crazy things he’d told her.

It also crossed her mind that Tyr would likely disappear once he’d delivered her to her dad. Once the F.B.I., Secret Service, and whoever else cleared him––assuming they did clear him, and he was more or less telling the truth––Marion would probably never see him again.

Something about that made her deeply uncomfortable.

It also made her incredibly sad.

She couldn’t really explain that to herself, either.

Truthfully, she didn’t even like thinking about it.

Something about him, about the thought of him disappearing back into whatever strange place from which he’d come, hit at the hole that had lived in her heart since her mother and sister died. The last thing she needed was to try and fill that hole with some stranger––to get emotionally dependent on a guy she’d only just met, who was obviously weird, who she barely knew––but there it was.

She did feel uncomfortably bound to him.

Really, she should be reserving judgment about him totally until he actually brought her where he said he’d bring her.

She didn’t really doubt him, though.

She knew she didn’t.

That probably should have weirded her out more than it did.

Some doubt must have lingered, though, because seeing the signs leading them into the outskirts of Washington D.C. relaxed that last, vibrating tension in her mind. Watching the numbers count down as they got closer and closer to the nation’s capital, she found herself watching him more often, wondering about him, studying his profile as he drove.

They’d been driving for hours now.

The sun had just disappeared below the horizon to her right.

It weirded her out, how quickly the sky was darkening. That was another thing she’d avoided, living the expat life. In the places she’d been staying over the past eight or so months, she’d never dealt with it getting pitch dark out before five-thirty or six p.m.

“You really are a quiet person,” she said, as they were entering the city limits. “Or should I take this personally?”

He looked at her. His dark eyes widened perceptibly, as if she’d startled him.

“No,” he said at once. “You should not. Take it personally.”

She smiled faintly. “Okay.”

“Are you?” he said. “Taking it personally?”

Folding her arms and hugging the thick sweater to her chest, she thought about the question seriously for a few seconds, then shook her head.

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