Blood Reunion (35 page)

"Hi," he said.

"Hi."

"How's the baby?"

"Fine. Has a good set of lungs, not unlike his father. Looks like when they want to yell, that's exactly what happens."

"Knowing Gavin, I am not surprised."

"Me either, actually."

"I heard that another one showed up." He changed the subject abruptly. I wasn't surprised about that, either.

"Yeah. That's what Belen says, anyway."

"No way to tell who?"

"Don't even know the sex," I sighed, struggling to sit up. He and I were connected, all right. Had always been connected. I lifted an eyebrow at my great-uncle. "You mean you don't know either?" I stared at him.

"We aren't supposed to know." He raked fingers through light-brown hair. "We're supposed to find one another, though, when the time comes."

"Well, I guess the time hasn't come yet," I pointed out. "Griffin did say that he was sent from the future, so this one could have bent time to get here. Come on, you know we're not prepared right now. And the third one hasn't shown up, yet."

"I guess you're right," he grinned.

I just want to go on record, too, and say that when one of the Mighty grins, it's like turning on the sun during a really dark day. Who knew, too, that at the end, I'd not only know one of the Mighty, I'd be related to him, too—at least in a corporeal sense. I grinned right back at him.

The End

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Connie Suttle lives in Oklahoma with her patient, long-suffering husband and three cats. The cats are not long-suffering. In fact, they can be quite demanding and never allow their humans to sleep late.

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