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Breaking the Nexus –
Chapter 1:
Death stalked his dreams. It shouldn’t have shocked him,
not after his years as a homicide detective. But this time, something was
different. It hadn’t been the grisly murder-suicide from the night before,
though he’d expected those deaths to haunt his dreams. A young mother, barely
twenty, had killed her baby daughter then herself. No, he corrected himself,
she had shredded that poor little girl before slitting her own throat. No one
could explain what had turned a seemingly happy young woman into a brutal
murderer, but the images of wading through the river of blood had tormented him
as he’d headed home from the precinct.
That
would have been horrific enough. But this? This was something he never could
have imagined.
Disjointed
images bombarded him, nightmarish scenes of battles between creatures that
couldn’t exist. Cries of pain and fear reverberated through a forest of
strange, twisting trees, nearly drowning out the clash of steel, the sickening
crunch of bones breaking, the wet ripping of flesh giving way.
What
the hell was going on?
Connor
Flynn considered himself a practical man. Having worked too many gruesome crime
scenes over the years, it wasn’t unusual for his dreams to be twisted. Yet he
couldn’t remember a single instance when his mind had conjured up anything like
this.
The
beings locked in battle were illuminated by flashes of brilliant color light,
seeming to originate from something that looked human, but couldn’t be. No
human could produce such effects outside of movie magic, not even his Wiccan
sister. That had to be it, This was a movie. What else explained the hulking
beast attacking the two figures? One was definitely female, the other male.
Another
crash shook the ground beneath Connor’s feet and he watched as the woman, her
golden hair streaked with blue, turned to shout at the man in a strange
language. Panic coated her voice, her vivid blue eyes wild with terror. And
determination, Connor realized. His body inexplicable strained toward her,
every fiber of his being wanting to offer aid to them but he was held in place
by invisible bonds.
Before
him, the air seemed to part, flashing symbols glowing faintly. The woman was
oblivious to the new danger behind her and he opened his mouth to shout a
warning.
The
words died on his tongue as once more the earth heaved beneath him, tossing him
to the ground as little more than a rag doll. Pain exploded as his head struck
something sharp and his vision dimmed. His eyes swept the ravaged landscape for
the woman, but all he could see was devastation. More figures flooded into the
clearing moments before Connor gave up the battle to stay conscious.
He
awoke with a start, sweat coating his body, his chest heaving as if he’d just
run a marathon. His head throbbed and he reached up, tentatively running his
fingers across the area he had hit in his dream. What was he doing, he
wondered. Of course there wasn’t anything there. It had been nothing more than
a vivid nightmare. Wincing as he brushed a tender area near the back of his
head, he stared in shock at the traces of blood on his fingertips.
Flinging
the tangled sheets aside, he stumbled to the bathroom to splash cold water on
his face. There was a perfectly logical explanation for that. He must’ve hit
his head on the nightstand and his mind had inserted the pain into the dream.
Yes, that was it. That made sense.
Yet,
as he stared at his reflection in the mirror, his eyes bloodshot and weary, the
dark stubble covering his jaw glistening with droplets of water, he couldn’t
shake the image of the woman from his mind. Her fierce gaze as she fought
against a beast that had easily been several times her size. Hands clenching
into fists to stop the instinctive desire to reach for the memory, he shook his
head. Before he could berate himself for a fool, his phone rang.
Bare
feet padded across the floor and he dug through his pants, searching for the
phone. Glancing at the display, he sighed. Dispatch. Despite Thanksgiving fast
approaching, murder refused to take a vacation.
About Lindsay:
I am a wife, a programmer, and now an author. I
have an adorable mini Schnauzer and more books than I have room for. I love
reading romance because no matter what may be happening in my life, I can
always count on my books to end happily ever after. The day I met my husband was
the day I truly began believing in happily ever after. After hearing me
complain a few too many times that I had "nothing" to read despite
the hundreds of paperbacks scattered around the house, my husband began
suggesting I write my own stories. When I finally took his advice I discovered
that although I enjoy my day job as a software engineer, my true calling is to
be an author.
My sister drilled into me an appreciation for
fantasy and mythology, something I try to bring to my books. My debut novel,
"Breaking the Nexus", started as a book written for NaNoWriMo and has
grown to so much more. It was the conduit that introduced me to a fantastic
group of independent authors who have changed my life in unimaginable ways.
When I'm not writing, I've found a passion for
blogging and interviewing fellow authors. I also love reading (of course!),
baking, crochet, sewing sock monkeys, playing video games, and all sorts of
random crafts. I have an incurable love of rubber duckies and stuffed animals,
and I believe nobody should have to grow up if they don't want.
