Wings in the Night Part 2 by Maggie Shayne

Wings in the Night Part 2 by Maggie Shayne

Author:Maggie Shayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2012-12-15T00:00:00+00:00


7

Amber watched him as carefully as she would have watched a coiled cobra. He’d seemed stunned when she told him about her dream. She thought his shock was genuine.

“I’m not going to get you killed.” The way he said it, she could almost believe he was trying to convince himself as much as her. “I swear, Alby, I’m not. I wouldn’t do that.”

She shrugged. “That’s a funny way to put it.”

“What is?”

“You said you wouldn’t get me killed. I didn’t say you got me killed in the dream, I said you gave me death.”

“It’s the same thing, isn’t it?”

“I don’t think so. Not exactly.”

He lowered his head, pacing away from her. “Hell, how could I kill you, anyway? I don’t even know if anything can kill you. You don’t even know.”

She shrugged. “Well, no, but I know what won’t. Drowning, electric shock, poisons, sunlight. Blood loss makes me pretty helpless, but who knows if it would kill me or not? I would imagine burning or beheading—”

“Stop it!”

She smiled, because he looked shaken by the images she’d painted in his mind. Turning away from him, she spent a few minutes pounding the punching bag with hooks, jabs, crescent kicks and back kicks. She was showing off, and she thought he knew it. When she stopped for a breather, he stood aside, hands on his hips, watching her. He said, “Do your dreams always come to pass?”

She sent him a glance. “So far? Always.” She gave the bag one last kick for good measure. “Walk me back to the house?”

“And give me a chance to attack?”

“I think I could take you.”

“I wish you would.”

She smiled slowly.

He said, “Why aren’t you running away from me as fast as you can? I don’t get it.”

“Neither do I. Partly because I want to know what the dream means. And partly…” She lowered her eyes, not finishing the sentence.

“Yeah, partly that. That I understand.”

She brushed the comment aside. “I want you to spend more time with the others. Get to know them a little.”

“I’m a loner, Alby.”

She tilted her head. “It’s okay, Edge. They don’t know about the dreams. No one does, except Will, and he doesn’t know the content. Only that I dreamed about you.”

He pursed his lips, lowered his head. “Besides, they’re better mind probers than you are, right? They might pick up on my ulterior motives. That’s why you really want to drag me back there, isn’t it?”

“You weren’t lying when you said you didn’t trust anyone, were you?” She sighed heavily. “Hell, Edge, if that’s what you think, it’s fine by me. So long as you have nothing to hide, why do you care?”

He seemed to mull it over for a long moment. Then he brightened a bit. “What’s in it for me?” he asked her.

She was surprised, but less so as she examined the spark in his eyes. “You mean I have to resort to bribery to get you to spend time with me?”

“I’ll spend every night with you, Alby, if you want.



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