by Chloe Garner
The man crossed his arms, but Isobel ignored him, watching as Aurélie came and sat two chairs down the table from her.
“Who are you?” Aurélie asked again.
“I am very old,” Isobel said, ignoring the noise the man made at this. “Older than you can imagine, and I’ve seen things you can never imagine. Places. I’ve known a great number of people, and few of them have been special to me, but your mother was special. And I promised her when she was only about your age that if she ever needed me, really needed me, I would be here to help her.”
“But…” Aurélie started, thinking about the train again. The somber silence of it, and then that first gasp of air. “You were dead.”
“Yes,” Isobel said. “It’s never stopped me before.”
“How?” Aurélie asked. Isobel inclined her head toward the man.
“Him,” she said. “No matter what, he always comes and brings me back.”
Aurélie looked at the man, who gave her a dour expression in return. He took a sip of his tea, then spoke.
“And that’s all you’re going to find out about that.”
He came to me in darkness and fire and blood, as I lay in the arms of the dead.
My life was gone, spent, and nothing.
He gave me a new one.
Thank you for reading Isobel, a companion book to the Sam and Sam series by Chloe Garner. If you enjoyed this story please come on over to Amazon and tell us what you liked about it. You can find her again later in the Sam & Sam series, in a book yet to be released. Need to catch up? Start with Rangers, or get the first four books all at once in the Sam and Sam Origin box set. Demon hack and slash at its best, Isobel isn’t going to know what hit her...
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Chloe Garner is, a wanderer with a host of identities in her head fighting each other to get out. Chloe writes about the things that go bump in the night, the future, and all things fantastical. Find her on Twitter as BlenderFiction, on Goodreads and Facebook as Chloe Garner, or at blenderfiction.wordpress.com.
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