A Taste of Ice
“They were sitting in the formal front living room, Cat and Xavier on a striped loveseat, Gwen and Reed on the longer couch opposite, Griffin pacing again under the arch to the foyer. Cat tightly gripped Xavier’s hand, and he let her.
Gwen shifted to the very edge of the couch. The big, bald man named Reed sat close enough to her to say he was hers, but far enough away to declare him not the possessive type. He sighed deep into the cushions, unzipped his coat, and stretched his thick arms across... the back of the couch.
“I don’t know him,” Gwen said carefully. Xavier had been right; there was a magnetism to her. A confidence. “I know of him.”
“Yeah, but you found him?” Her birth father. Just thinking that was strange. And stirring.
“I did.” Gwen glanced at Xavier. “I used the information about where you grew up, Cat, your birthday and such. The former Ofarian Board kept a lot of information covered, tried to keep certain situations under wraps. They wanted to twist what the general Ofarian population knew about their own people.MoreLess
Gwen shifted to the very edge of the couch. The big, bald man named Reed sat close enough to her to say he was hers, but far enough away to declare him not the possessive type. He sighed deep into the cushions, unzipped his coat, and stretched his thick arms across... the back of the couch.
“I don’t know him,” Gwen said carefully. Xavier had been right; there was a magnetism to her. A confidence. “I know of him.”
“Yeah, but you found him?” Her birth father. Just thinking that was strange. And stirring.
“I did.” Gwen glanced at Xavier. “I used the information about where you grew up, Cat, your birthday and such. The former Ofarian Board kept a lot of information covered, tried to keep certain situations under wraps. They wanted to twist what the general Ofarian population knew about their own people.MoreLess
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