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“I don’t know, it’s your mission.”
He was too tired and too frustrated to be indignant. Well, too indignant. “What do you mean, you don’t know? Aren’t you supposed to be my guide?” He’d taken that to mean that Parallax was sending him someone that would know where to find the star that had been taken from him, but he was getting more and more of an idea that Valrinda was more along for the ride.
Not that he wasn’t a wealth of knowledge about the world that Beckett found himself in. He’d have had no idea where to go
Bad Karma and the Family Plan #85 (18.1) by Julie Lynn Hayes
I know it’s silly to be taken aback by something so harmless, but the memories that tiny gator invoked…. Well, let’s say they weren’t pleasant.
“Vinnie…Vinnie…”
Ethan’s concerned voice drew me back to the present. He was stroking my cheek, and the expression in his beautiful blue eyes was one of alarm.
“Sorry. Didn’t mean to space out like that.” I gave him a weak smile, but I knew he understood why I was rather upset. Not to mention this suddenly pointed the grave finger of suspicion toward someone I’d rather forget entirely, but he was making that difficult.
Who else could have sent such a chilling message but Chip
Wednesday Briefs 