“You were so loved,” the woman said, almost in wonder.
Roxie instinctively pulled back.She couldn’t do this without him.Or without her sisters.Maxie.Maxie would come here with her.
Ingrid let go, reading her body language.“I’m sorry.We don’t have to do this if you don’t want to.”
Already, things were getting way too personal.Roxie hadn’t come here for this.She’d just wanted someone to map the facts out for her, if that were possible.She didn’t want to drive through her life, going over one speed bump at a time.
The cat nudged her forearm again, wanting to be petted.After what she’d learned, she couldn’t deny the little thing.She combed her shaky fingers through the soft fur and a purr rumbled through her legs.She stroked the kitty’s head, and her heart squeezed again when she encountered a ragged ear.Torn in a cat fight, no doubt, and healed all wrong.
A rescue.Like her.
She swallowed hard, pushing away the feeling.
This woman was good, finding a way to get under her skin.How she’d figured out a damn cat could do that was beyond her.Roxie determinedly flipped back her hair.“Tell me more.Can you see before that?”
See… like the woman was turning through pages in a picture book…
Roxie gritted her teeth.She’d focused too much on her past.Nobody who knew about their childhood would ask a psychic to look there.
Still, she thrust her hand forward and spread her fingers wide.She wasn’t going to give away anything more.She was going to make the woman work for it.Ingrid covered her palm with her own, rubbing in the same pattern she’d used with her own hands.The friction caused warmth, and energy tingled in Roxie’s fingertips.
She refused to acknowledge it.
Ingrid closed her eyes and inhaled more of the sage.Roxie wondered if she ever got high on the stuff.
“It’s dark and hard to see,” the psychic said.“I’m getting impressions of joy and heartache.Surprise and anger.”
She went quiet for a long, long moment, but finally shook her head.“There are too many powerful emotions to see anything clearly.They’ve clouded everything.”
Uh huh, just as Roxie had suspected.Lots of hand waving and fluffy talk.
Still, her foot bounced.Clouds and shadows.That was where she’d spent most of her life… in the dark.
Ingrid was starting to lean away when her eyebrows jumped.Energy went through her and she leaned forward in excitement.“But a light has been shown to you.You’ve been getting flashes of your past recently, haven’t you?”
Roxie bit her tongue to keep from saying anything.She’d found her sisters, identical siblings she hadn’t remembered existing.If they weren’t flashes from her past, she didn’t know what was.
She nodded, even knowing she shouldn’t.
Ingrid nibbled on her lower lip as her look turned faraway.She had the weirdest eyes.Sparkling blue, but those pupils.They kept getting bigger and more open.
Maybe that sage had more of an effect than Roxie thought.
She stroked the cat, trying to push away her discomfort.
“Loops.”The psychic traced circles in the air.She didn’t seem to be looking at anyone or anything in the room anymore.“Your life.I keep seeing loops in time, circling back again and again.”
Roxie rubbed the cat’s chin.First Lexie and then Maxie.
And now Billy…
Ingrid’s hair swished as she shook her head.The room had gotten so quiet, even that soft noise was noticeable.“And I’m not understanding this… Every time you turn around, you find yourself.”
The woman pushed at the air as if moving on to another scene.“I hope this means something to you.It’s not clear to me, but I don’t want to miss anything.”
Find herself… or sisters who looked just like her…
“Keep going,” Roxie said hoarsely.Had any of those motorists or news cameras caught her sisters on film?Maybe Ingrid or the girl out front had seen her with Lexie.
