Lissa Kasey - Dominion 2 - Reclamation Read Free Page B

to look for stuff about my dad.

Chapter Two
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ELLY talked, the whole drive, about the latest in boating, or something along that line. Anything sports made him happy. Hed asked me to join his fantasy football league and gave me a funny look when I asked if that was something to do with naked football players.
    We stopped at a light and waited for it to change. I stared out at the darkening sky and wondered what else in my life could be different. Red turned green, and Kelly pulled his sedan into the intersection.
    A truck swerved around all the others, headlights glaring in our direction. “Shit!” Kelly cursed, hitting the gas and jerking the car to the left. The truck missed us by inches, everyone honking and shouting out their windows. Kelly pulled into a nearby parking lot and sucked in several deep breaths.
    My heart pounded, and the shake began in my hands. I gripped my sweats around my thighs, pulling the fabric tight enough to hurt. No way was I going to lose it here.
    “You okay?” I asked Kelly when my voice felt steady again.
“Yeah. You?”
“Yeah. Lets go to the library.” I was the older of us. I had to take care of him. Kelly looked up to me. I had to be strong for him, even when I was afraid.
“Okay.” He huffed out a heavy breath. “Should we call the cops or something?”
“For what? We didnt get hit. It was just a really bad driver.” I hadnt even noticed much about the truck other than it had been big and dark. Winter was pretty notorious for bringing out the worst drivers. “Lets go.”
Kelly nodded and carefully pulled out of the lot and back onto the street. Thankfully, the library had only a handful of people in it. Since it was dinnertime, I hoped everyone took a long meal break.
“Im headed to the water collection. Are you going to earth?” Kelly asked.
“Nope. Microfilm.” What I wanted was in classified databases, but a lot of that info was still readily available on old microfilm. Itd be a bitch to find. But I had to start somewhere.
Kelly and I separated to our areas. I browsed the time frame in which my father had died, sometime in the early fall of my birth year. Starting in July and working my way up, it wasnt until I hit October that I found it. Odd since I was born in November and the article online had said Merth had died in September. The microfilm said on October twentythird a public execution had been held. Four male witches sentenced to burn at the stake for violating Dominion Code. Though the article didnt specify what theyd done, there was a picture of my dad with three other men.
Finding out he died at the hands of the Dominion didnt surprise me. Jamie had pretty much said so when Id gone in for my levels retest. He blamed my mother for my dads death. But she wasnt mentioned anywhere in this print.
I scrolled through to find the date of my birth. Nothing was mentioned. It figured, as only female children of the Dominion were usually announced. I exited the microfilm and headed to the open computers.
E-mailing Dr. Tynsen the list I had and my answer to what I wanted to get out of our meetings, I asked her, “Can you help me have sex with my boyfriend again?”
What would she make of that? Wed spoken little of my relationship, mostly because I didnt want to talk about it. Shed never expressed any discomfort with my homosexuality. At least not yet.
I did a few other quick searches on myself and found endless articles bashing me, and a few websites apparently dedicated to my death. The Ascendance had their own website, and the most recently posted blog talked about how convenient it had been for Rose to die and Brock to try to kill me. Without both incidents I would not be Pillar, and they would not have their chance to force the Dominion to adopt equality.
They touted Brock as somewhat of a hero. He had been a member. Though in smaller text it said his use of murder was unlawful. Just unlawful? What about rape and kidnapping? Neither was mentioned.
My stomach rumbled