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“Cease talking,
infuriating woman and listen. I come from an … unusual … family, we
know who you are and we are well informed as to what you can do.”
Jade pulled and
twisted her hair back with a flip of her hand and studied his face.
“Unusual huh?
How could you possibly know anything about me, about what you think I’m capable
of? Maybe you’re just misinformed. Have you considered that?”
His hands again became the tightly balled fists. He exhaled, brow
furrowed; seemingly a bit exasperated, but continued to answer her questions
with a strange, but strained patience.
“The Gifts you possess
came because one of the Goddesses granted them to you. She suspected that
someday those Gifts would be of use to us.
That day has come.”
Oh my God he
really is crazy. “Why?” She
blurted. “Even if I were to believe your cockamamie story, why me?”
“Goddesses cannot
go where we must go, and so, for some reason you were blessed with the Gifts of
empathy and projection. I cannot tell you why you in particular were
chosen. It makes no good sense to me.” His face touched on pained
when he said this. “You must come with me; that I know for sure.
You need to do exactly as I tell you.”
How can he know about this? She paused, considering his statements.
“You said I should listen, and I have, and I believe the answer is no.” She
supposed he decided to ignore her, because he went on.
“You’ll have to
train first; unfortunately it will be me who does your training. And we
need to begin immediately, oh yes,” the man actually said in dead pan, “it will
be extremely dangerous. Now, what is your decision?”
“You actually seem
serious; you believe what you’re saying, don’t you?” He was sitting there
waiting for an answer. “Wow, neuroses really can be an all-consuming
thing.” She would know. What the hell, she decided to reply as if she
were taking him seriously.
“NO, I’m sticking
with, NO.”
After all that
delusional crazy talk, she hoped he hadn’t poisoned her food. She stared
down into the empty bowl inspecting it for signs of nefarious
activity. Like I would know, I haven’t gotten my CBS crime
investigation degree yet.
Jade stood up
pushing the chair back with the back of her legs, turned and calmly walked to
the bar, and asked politely if she could use the phone to call a cab. She
refused to even look back at what unfortunately had turned out to be a complete
nutjob.
The next thing Jade
knew, someone’s giant hands gripped her around the waist, and with absolutely
no effort at all, heaved her straight up into the air and threw her over his
shoulder. Now, ass pointed to the ceiling, face looking down at his
backside and the floor, she was being carried away! Omigod, omigod,
he’s going to kill me now! Why isn’t anyone stopping him?!
“PUT ME DOWN!
You freaking Neanderthal, I don’t care what kind of insanity you suffer
from! You can’t just abduct people! I said PUT ME DOWN!”
Apparently her screaming had no effect on the man, or anyone else in the
establishment, because he simply walked, at his leisure.
“I have tried being
reasonable, I gave you an honest chance at free will, and you failed to use
it.”
“Hello large
deranged man, allow me to edify you on the finer points of free will, because
there is no part of that definition which states, ‘when a person decides
against doing what you want them to, you then have the right to throw them over
your giant, stupid controlling body and walk away with them!’ ”
As her red curls
now flopped below her head bouncing off the man’s waistline, Jade fisted her
hand, and even though she knew it wouldn’t stop him or deter him from his
purpose, she slugged him several times and bashed her legs wildly as hard as
she could.
Calmly and
smoothly, he walked to the door with her over his shoulder and put his hand to
the knob, turning it and swinging the door open. Even as the noise level
of the crowd died down and they watched him walk out with her, they did nothing
to even try to stop him, and he stepped out into the chilled night air.
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