Grower's Omen (The Fixers, book #2: A KarmaCorp Novel) (17 page)

I needed to be a Grower again.

One who didn’t poison things.

One who watered them. Running on pure instinct, I reached into my bag for the small potted plant from Gilly’s ceremony. I slid it onto the edge of Yesenia’s desk, my hands shaking badly.

She regarded it as if it were a small bomb.

“It’s from—” My throat struggled to make words that weren’t a whimper. “My niece. We had a dirtwalker ceremony.”

Now she was looking at me like I was the deliverer of small bombs.

I managed to choke out the last few words. “Tatiana has one too.”

Her eyes dropped back to the little plant in slow motion, like a ship falling inexorably into a wormhole.

And then the steel around her Talent evaporated, and I wanted, so very badly, to run, because the boss lady was going to cry any second, and the only thing in the universe that could possibly be more frightening than Yesenia’s wrath would be her tears.

She waved a hand in fierce, abrupt dismissal, and I obeyed with wild alacrity.

But I didn’t miss her whispered words as I fled.

“Thank you.”

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