Bright Star. Grayson Reyes-Cole
Чтение книги онлайн.
Читать онлайн книгу Bright Star - Grayson Reyes-Cole страница 17
Название: Bright Star
Автор: Grayson Reyes-Cole
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Современная зарубежная литература
isbn: 9780984113248
isbn:
“That’s not true, and you know it. You’ve told me so many times how they help Shifters deal with their Talents. As you well know, Shifters have a higher incidence of emotional and behavioral problems.” Rush was regurgitating everything Jackson had told him over the years.
“This is different. Bright Star is different. She is vulnerable,” Jackson’s voice broke, betraying his attempt to sway his brother.
“Not as vulnerable as you think.”
“You might have saved her, Rush, but you weren’t there.”
“Why didn’t you call the police, Jackson?”
“What?”
“Why didn’t you go after her ‘attackers,’ Jackson?”
“I don’t—”
“Why did it never occur to you to take her to her own home, Jackson?”
Rush’s little brother had no answers.
“Vulnerable?” Rush gave a nasty chuckle. “Vulnerable, Jackson? She’s not fucking vulnerable. She played you like a goddamned piano, man. That woman in there is not Mom.” Rush stated soulfully. “She’s not being persecuted or ostracized for being different. We are not casting judgment on her without all the facts. She is not broken the way our mother was broken. You know Randall Sandoval. He might be an asshole, but he would make sure she was treated well. And she truly is dangerous. You’ve seen it with your own eyes. Our mother was not crazy. She was unhappy, very unhappy, but not crazy. Please,” he begged, “don’t get the two of them confused. Bright Star will hurt people.”
“She only hurt herself.”
“She will hurt others,” Rush declared.
“So what? You can see the future, too?” Jackson snarled this with sarcasm. He nearly bit his tongue when his brother only glared his affirmation at him.
“Please send her away or at least get your Service to take her, Jacks. You know Sandoval won’t turn her away once they see what she can do.”
Jackson thought about that long hidden memory. He thought about his mother saving him from the knife and the way she had stripped him of that memory for his own protection. She didn’t want her own special, precious child to look on her with the disdain she’d felt her whole life. He considered Bright Star and her fragile nature. He thought of her lying near dead on a rooftop from self-inflicted wounds. Then, he thought of the rock that was in his pocket at that very moment. He had taken that rock from a man he considered a friend. A man who was now strongly sedated, whose only words from time to time were “my rock.”
Jackson knew what would happen. They would test her, hold her, study her the way they had when he was boy, the way they still wanted to now. They would hurt her and not even know it and expect him to help like he had with Thad. He couldn’t do that to her. He couldn’t. “I can’t do that,” he told his older brother. But, Rush was no longer there.
Конец ознакомительного фрагмента.
Текст предоставлен ООО «ЛитРес».
Прочитайте эту книгу целиком, купив полную легальную версию на ЛитРес.
Безопасно оплатить книгу можно банковской картой Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, со счета мобильного телефона, с платежного терминала, в салоне МТС или Связной, через PayPal, WebMoney, Яндекс.Деньги, QIWI Кошелек, бонусными картами или другим удобным Вам способом.