Neo Jurassic Smashwords 11-17-2014
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“May I come in?” Drake asked from the other side of her tent.
Appie wanted to say no, but that wouldn’t be very hospitable for a newly elected Shawnee, now would it? “Yes.”
Drake walked in, head down. He looked like he had been crying, a lot.
“I am so sorry,” he said.
“Do not be,” Appie said, although it might have sounded more like a snap. “Chimmus made her choice.”
She had been trying to convince herself of that the past hour.
“I should have told her I wasn’t interested at all, but I didn’t want to hurt her feelings.”
Appie cocked her head. “Not at all? Because you two seemed close in the truck. Your hand on her thigh.”
She wasn’t going to mention it, but he had brought it up.
“No, she was holding my hand there. Her grip is like a Syn’s I’m telling you.”
Appie’s eyes narrowed. “You did not sleep with her in the truck?”
“Yes, but slept is all we did. I swear.”
“Most men would not have declined such an offer.”
Drake blushed, kicking some non-existent rock with his toe. “I… I… I haven’t…”
‘At your age?” Appie asked genuinely surprised.
“In my world you aren’t legally able to marry until you are eighteen.”
“Eighteen?” Appie chuckled. “I’d be run off if I’m not bonded after this year’s gathering.”
“So you are engaged?” Drake asked.
“No, I have no intended, but I better find one elsewise I will no longer be Shawnee.”
“There’s a law that you have to marry?”
“A law? No,” Appie explained. “But a Shawnee must live by example. I have been a virtuous girl, but now I must become a woman, marrying, raising a family in harmony.”
“Oh,” Drake said, looking down again. “And when is this gathering?”
“In two months.”
“Oh,” he said again looking about as cute as a boy could with tear streaks down his face. Appie had truly thought that Drake was as taken with Chimmus as Chimmus was with him. If he wasn’t…
Appie couldn’t allow herself to think that far ahead. The boy had just woken up in a different century. The chance that he would choose her out of all the other girls at the gathering were slim to none.
Drake lifted his face. “Again, I am so sorry.”
“Seriously, you don’t have to be. Chimmus would have found something else to challenge me over,” Appie reassured him. “The girl was not content at being just a tracker when she was knee high. The girl was destined to challenge me.”
Drake breathed out. “I can’t tell you how much better that makes me feel.”
She was glad that one of them could feel less responsible. Just because Chimmus was going to challenge her, didn’t mean that Appie was any less sad about it.
“I’m not sure if you are up for it, but I brought over the video player,” Drake stated. “I’ve got Jurassic Park 3 primed and ready?”
Appie chuckled. “I think I’ve had enough of T. Rexes for the day.”
“Then Star Wars?” Drake offered. “You can see where I got that rad move?”
Appie couldn’t resist. She plopped down on the floor beside Drake while sending off one last hope that Chimmus would eventually find her way.
EPILOGUE
Durnag felt he was seeing through a layer of gauze. He could barely hear, but he should consider himself lucky, given he was just a head.
And he would only be that for a very short period of time. Once his soldiers delivered him back to the Council, he knew that he would be melted for scrap metal. This failure could not be forgiven, so he best enjoy the minutes he had left.
He would not regret his decisions. They had been sound at the time. The Tucker girl simply had better luck, a tangible, mathematically proven phenomena. And when luck came into play, there was seldom anything anyone could do about it.
“Sir,” one of his soldiers said. Durnag squinted trying to make out the synthetic before him. There was another shadow beside him.
“Yes?”
“A human has turned herself in.”
Durnag snorted, nearly knocking himself over backward. “A human coming to a Syn camp?”
“Yes,” a young feminine voice said. Even though he didn’t have his sacral hard drive, Durnag was still able to match the voice to his clan database.
“Chimmus?”
“I have come to offer my help.”
“For?”
“Killing Appie.”
Durnag had to make sure that he was still functioning and not having some kind of post-traumatic fantasy. Bringing a live member of the clan might be the only thing that could save his existence with the council.
“Why would you do that?”
“She had me exiled. I owe her a debt I want to see repaid.”
Humans. Their ability to carry a grudge was perhaps the biggest surprise. The human saying was “dog to a bone,” but he’d never seen a dog cling to a bone for decades as humans could to a grudge.
“I want to see the council,” Chimmus stated.
Durnag laughed. “And why would they ever deign to see you?”
There was very little the council cared about. And the politics of a human clan? Not much at all.
“I know where this year’s gathering will be held.”
Except possibly that.
AFTERWORD
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Carolyn McCray
Carolyn has had a long and extremely interesting road to become a bestseller.
When she head to veterinary school those many years ago she had no idea decades later she would be writing controversial historical thrillers, gut wrenching mysteries and roller coaster-style action/adventure tales!
Born in San Francisco and raised in the beautiful Napa Valley, Carolyn always had an overactive imagination. As a child you could usually find her dragging the neighborhood children out to the haunted barn to make her Nancy Drew-style audio tapes. Oh and did she mention, there was an entire life-sized recreation of the nativity scene in the rafters? Yeah, that wasn’t just a little creepy.
Which of course was great practice for writing such blockbusters as Plain Jane: A Patterson-style thriller with a dash of Hannibal and 30 Pieces of Silver: An Extremely Controversial Historical Thriller.
With over 500,000 books sold, Carolyn now lives on a beautiful lake in the Pacific Northwest where the fog rolls in over the water, snuffing out all signs of life around her. Yep, she still loves the creepy!
Table of Contents
Copyright
Main Menu
NEO-JURASSIC: The 1st full-length book of the post-apocalyptic thriller series, Our Future. Our Fault
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 15
EPILOGUE
AFTERWORD
Other Works by Carolyn McCray
The Apex Predator Thriller Series
The Betrayed Omnibus Series – Carolyn’s extremely controversial historical thriller series
The Robin Hood Hacker Series – Carolyn’s action packed techno-thriller series
About the Author
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