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“Not a threat. It’s what will happen if you walk home alone tonight. I haveseenit.”
She is referencing my profession as a psychic. Is she letting me know she hunted me down for Big Eddie? If not, how does someone in this new town know about my abilities?
Deflecting is my next defense, so I fold my arms over my chest defiantly. “And you know thishow?”
She flings the door open as the limo moves closer. “I’m Karma.”
It takes me about three seconds to lose my composure and laugh. “That’s rich.”
She just smirks without humor.
“Karma?” I repeat accusingly. “So what is this then? Are you here to threaten, beat, and/or kill me?”
“None of the above. Get in the car,” she orders, and her eyes illuminate with a red glow. I swallow my anger in exchange for fear. These aren’t some novelty contacts that can make someone’s eyes light up.
I shift my focus to my third eye. The ability to read someone’s soul drains me, so I hardly ever do this when I’m not legitimately using my psychic skills with a client, but I need toseeher aura with no reality filters.
When I use mysight, most people appear as muted, wispy colors and small, blurry forms, but when I open my psychic senses to perceive this woman…
Pure freaking blinding light.
My mouth drops open. “Whatare you?”
“Get in the car, and I will explain everything.”
I contemplate my choices. I could risk walking home. Maybe I will die, or maybe I’ll be fine. I could run, loseKarma, stay in a hotel, and then skip town tomorrow, or I could stupidly trust this…womanand hear her out.
“What do you want with me?” I ask. Whatever she is, she is powerful, and it would be dumb not to ask what she wants.
Karma sighs as if I were a petulant child. “Ihadplanned on saving your life, but if you’d rather die…” She reaches out to close her door.
“Wait.” I step closer, and Ifeelpower wafting off of her. It’s like approaching a jaguar in the wild. I know I could die at any second, perhaps with a snap of her fingers. “If you are Karma, then why would you want to save me?”
I’m not the best human on the planet and I’m definitely not an innocent doe.
“I have a proposition for you, but I need to restart time again,” Karma remarks casually, as if stopping time is such a routine thing. “So if you don’t get in the car, I will have to leave you to your scheduled fate.”
I glance at my phone. The time hasn’t changed since I walked out of the bar.
She did freeze time.
I shake off my nerves and hop into the Karma-mobile.
This is probably a big mistake, but she tells the truth when she says my life is in danger. I know that much. I just hope she isn’t the one who will end my life.
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AN OFFER I CAN'T REFUSE
Karma is even more stunning up close.
In the small confines of the limo, I feel like I can barely breathe with her overwhelming aura. If she wasn’t zapping and frying all my senses, I would find her quite attractive. She has sleek, black hair that falls to her waist like a cape, golden-toned, buttery skin, and sharp yet somehow feminine features. Beautiful. As it is though, I just want to bolt from the limo.
She inspects me as if she is evaluating my worth, and I don’t really want to know in what ways she finds me lacking.
To avoid the look of disappointment, I stare out my window and notice cars moving along the road again.
Tired of her calculating assessment, I gruffly ask, “So you’reKarma?”
