“Tanner and I have agreed that no matter what happens, we won’t let it come between us,” Bas says.
I stare at them. They have clearly lost their minds. This is never going to work. As I look at their faces, I can see the determination in them. Neither one is willing to back down, and this is what they came up with to preserve their friendship and not lose me. I still think this is a bad idea, but I don’t think I can talk them out it. They both take my shoulders dropping in defeat as a sign of my agreement to this harebrained plan.
My dad walks into the room then, and after a brief, but polite, greeting to both guys, busies himself with checking my vital signs. Bas and Tanner seem to take that as their cue to get going. Tanner is the first to stand up. He walks up to the head of the bed, sliding his hand into mine as he does.
“Call us when you get out of here tomorrow,” he says before kissing my forehead. His fingers slip away from me as he turns and heads for the door.
Bas approaches next. “I’ll call and check on Sibeal tonight, okay?”
“Thank you, Bas.”
He squeezes my hand before saying goodbye to my dad and following Tanner out of the room.
“What was that all about?” my dad asks.
I shake my head and slump down in bed. “I’m not really sure.”
Despite the look in my dad’s eyes that says he has more than a few things to say about what just happened, he holds it all inside for now. “How are you feeling?”
Aside from the confusion? “I’m okay. Just sore mostly.”
My dad sits beside me and slips his arm behind my head for a hug. “I’ve never been so scared in my life,” he says. “I’m so glad you’re okay. I don’t know what we would do if we ever lost you.”
“I’m not going anywhere, Dad.”
Yet, I add silently. How many more times is Tlaloc going to put me through this?
My dad squeezes my shoulders and smiles. “I’ll go tell your mom that all your visitors have gone home. She’s outside fielding phone calls from just about everyone in town.”
I can only imagine. My dad stands up, but I grab his hand before he can leave. “Any chance of getting something that will stop me from dreaming tonight, or possibly something that will just knock me out?”
“Pain meds are only going to make dreaming worse, and you’re not going to escape Bas and Tanner that easily,” he says with a chuckle.
My mouth turns down in a pout as he walks out, the truth of his words making me even more sullen. As mixed up as I am about this deal Bas and Tanner have struck, the dreams scare me even more. I know they won’t be stopping any time soon. This time they brought a killing curse and psychotic druid into my life. What will the dreams bring next? And how long can I keep surviving them?
End of Book Two
Of the
Escaping Fate Series
Look for “Oracle Lost”
Book 3 of the Escaping Fate Series
Fall of 2014
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Leah Brimhall who has gotten me in gear lately to share my books with more readers and has encouraged me to think big. She has the best ideas and she is a great friend to wait patiently for me to make it through the list.
Thank you to my wonderful beta readers, Deanne James, Angela Mendenhall, Nicole Marie, and my husband Ryan Gladden, who helped me whip this spur of the moment book into shape so readers could find out what the dreams will bring next.
Thank you to Zander Roth, one of the main characters in my Wicked Hunger series, for making it so hard to write a fight scene that I decided to write a whole other book instead. There is something to be said for avoidance when it results in a completely new book.
Finally, thank you to my husband, Ryan, for always being there and for making sure me and my books don’t live in the matrix.
About the Author
DelSheree Gladden lives in New Mexico with her husband and two children. The Southwest is a big influence in her writing because of its culture, beauty, and mythology. Local folk lore is strongly rooted in her writing, particularly ideas of prophecy, destiny, and talents born from natural abilities. When she is not writing, DelSheree is usually reading, painting, sewing, or working as a Dental Hygienist. Her works include Escaping Fate, Soul Stone, Twin Souls Saga, The Destroyer Trilogy, and Invisible. Look for, Wicked Hunger and Wicked Power, the first two books in the SomeOne Wicked This Way Comes Series, Intangible, book two in the Aerling Series, and Date Shark, her first contemporary romance, coming 2014.
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Also by DelSheree Gladden
Escaping Fate Series
Escaping Fate
Soul Stone
Oracle Lost
(CominFg Fall 2014)
Twin Souls Saga
Twin Souls
Shaxoa’s Gift
Qaletaqa
The Destroyer Trilogy
Inquest
Secret of Betrayal
Darkening Chaos
SomeOne Wicked This Way Comes Series
Wicked Hunger
Wicked Power
(Coming 2014)
Wicked Glory
(Coming 2014)
The Aerling Series
Invisible
Intangible
(Coming March 2014)
Invincible
(Coming Fall 2014)
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