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what was
the next thing that happened? How old were you then?”
    Jes stared hard at her grandmother.
“Why are you doing this?”
    Her grandmother gave her a level
look—but her tone was gentle. “Just humor me, child.”
    Jes gave a great sigh of
exasperation. “I don’t know—I guess it was about six or nine months
later. This time I blew out the lightbulbs. I was home one day—and
I was irritated with the computer. I was just glad I didn’t
blow it up.”
    “ And how do you keep from blowing
out lightbulbs—or computers—now? Or keeping things from—going
flying?”
    Jes folded her arms over her middle
in a defensive gesture. “I neutralize the forward thrust of my
emotions.”
    “ Hmmm. So this must have happened
a few more times?”
    Jes nodded. “Frequently after
that—until I learned to control them,” she finished quietly. “I
just always tried to hide it from you.”
    Her grandmother gave her that look
that grandmothers loved to give, but didn’t say anything. “And what
other types of things—of this nature—have happened? And why didn’t
you come to me?”
    “ I didn’t come to you—because I
didn’t want to talk about it—just like I don’t want to talk about
it now,” Jes said with more than a little rancor. Then, she
immediately apologized for her rude tone.
    Her grandmother waved it away. “I
don’t mean to upset you, child. Your answers are important to
me—for reasons I don’t want to get into at the moment.”
    Jes’s gaze narrowed on her. After a
long moment, when it was apparent her grandmother wasn’t going to
leave it alone, she said, “I… ummm… can draw things to me—in the
same way as I can push them away. And I can—cause them to kind
of—blow up….” She winced. “Not bad—just like a burst of—forced
air.”
    If her grandmother was surprised to
hear this, she didn’t show it. “I see. And you didn’t think this
was important to talk about either?” She waved away the retort Jes
was about to release. “Okay, Jes. We’ll let it go for now. But
you’re going to have to settle your mind onto having a talk about
it again—and soon.”
    “ Yes, Nanna,” Jes said. But not too soon , she
thought with some rebellion. And with that she hugged her
grandmother and left.
     
     
     

Chapter Seven
    Jes and Justice
    Jes was sitting in her best
friend’s living room two hours later,
holding a cup of coffee heavily laden with French Vanilla crème
between her hands. And she was babbling incoherently about
Justice.
    Or so her friend had accused
her.
    “ You’re not making any sense,
Jes,” Katherine complained to her.
    Frustrated, Jes started over, and
made an honest attempt at slowing down—filling in the blanks. She
watched Kat’s eyes go from amazed, to shocked, to floored by the
end of her story.
    Kat was of the Jaguar People, so
that was a plus, and she was happily mated to her true mate of the
Jaguar People, another plus, but Jes had never told her about
Justice. And Kat wasn’t sympathizing with Jes for keeping this
secret from her—or about Jes calling Justice a monster.
    Not at all.
    “ How could you say that?!” Kat
said in exasperation.
    “ How can you not!” Jes shot back at
her.
    “ Jes,” Kat rubbed the bridge of
her nose and tried again. “He’s your life mate. You are tied to him
for all eternity. You can’t just sell him up the river!” She got up
from where she had been seated on the floor in front of the coffee
table. “How could you have kept all of this from me all this time ?”
    “ I’m sorry,” Jes said quietly. “It
just—hurt so much.” She looked up at her friend. “I missed them all
so much. And he murdered those kids… I didn’t know him at
all.”
    Her friend came to sit beside
her—and hugged her. “I’m so sorry, Jes. It must have been
difficult—having them all just disappear like that.” She looked
into her friend’s eyes. “Then having nearly everyone you loved—and
trusted, also