A Son for the Alien Warrior by Honey Phillips EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Honey Phillips
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- Genre: First Contact Science Fiction
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Mariah pulled her beat-up old Camaro into the parking lot for the city
park and let it shudder to a halt. She clenched the steering wheel in an attempt
to keep her hands from trembling. Too much caffeine, she tried to tell herself.
But even though she’d been guzzling coffee all night, she knew that wasn’t
the reason she was shaking.
Forcing her hands to release the wheel, she reached for the small
bouquet of flowers sitting on the passenger seat. They weren’t much—just a
cheap bouquet from the last gas station—but she had wanted to bring
something, some token to acknowledge that this was the last place where her
sister Judith and her nephew Charlie had been seen.
As she climbed out of her car, her collection of bracelets jingled, the
sound startling in the still morning air. With a muttered curse, she pulled off
all but the frayed friendship bracelet her sister had tied around her wrist not
five days before she disappeared. Judith had laughed and tugged one of the
braids scattered throughout Mariah’s long blond hair as she displayed her
own bracelet.
“There. Is that hippie enough for you?”
Mariah’s eyes filled with tears as she remembered that morning in her
sister’s small townhouse, as neat and organized as her sister. Why hadn’t she
stayed with her for just a few more days? But she had already been restless,
the same restlessness that had kept her on the road for more than fifteen years
pulling at her. Despite the joy of spending time with her sister and her new
nephew, she’d left that day for a gig in Detroit. The police had contacted her
a week later.
Now she took a deep breath, wiped her eyes, and turned towards the
park. Even though the summer sun hadn’t yet crept above the horizon, the
parking lot wasn’t entirely deserted. A big black Escalade stood guard at one
end and two mom vans were parked by the walking trail. Mariah gave them a
wistful glance as she passed by, noting the car seats and the colorful
assortment of toys. Judith had a similar model, still sitting in her townhouse
driveway. Mariah hadn’t been able to bring herself to sell it.
The path led into the woods, still cool and dim in the dawn light. Her
sandals made no sound on the asphalt and nothing disturbed the hush that lay
over the park. She started to hum, but the sound was so unnerving that she
stopped and focused on reaching her destination instead. Around the next
curve, a meadow opened up, leading down to a small lake with a bandstand
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