Drake Sisters 07 - Hidden Currents

already prepared with a psychic shield so you couldn’t use your talent.â€
    â€œBut neither could he,†El e pointed out. “Or his brother.â€
    â€œHow old is that vil a?†Sarah asked. “Did he buy it himself?â€
    â€œIt had been in his family, and his father sold it to pay off debts. Stavros bought it back when he became wealthy,†El e answered.
    â€œWhere is his mother?†Sarah continued.
    â€œShe was supposedly kil ed in an accident when Stavros was a baby along with Stavros’s twin brother, but it turns out she left her husband, faked her death, and took the twin with her,†El e said. “She drowned in a lake a few years ago. When Evan, that’s the twin, was in my room that first day, they talked quite a lot about their past. Both seemed bitter.â€
    There was a smal tel ing silence, al of them thinking the same thing. Could Stavros have had something to do with the death of his mother?
    The teakettle whistled and Ilya poured the water into the teapot with another wave of his hand, adding several scoops of the healing tea to further energize everyone. Jackson sat back in his chair, watching the cozy fit over the teapot without a single hand touching it. Cups and mugs lined up on the kitchen sideboard next to the pot. He looked around his open living room at the Drake sisters sprawled out in his various chairs. Ilya sitting beside Joley, her body draped over his in a casual, comfortable manner. What had happened? It looked like a scene from the Drake home, not his quiet house.

    He let his breath out slowly, and pul ed El e closer into him as he studied her sisters—his family. Family. He tasted the word, rol ed it around in his mind. He hadn’t known what a family could be until he met the Drakes. They al had opinions, they al got into one another’s business and they al were fierce in their protection of each other.
    El e tipped her head back to look up at him, feeling his emotions, sharing them with him, the wonder and miracle of family. They exchanged a smal smile and felt—complete.
    Sarah sighed. “El e, can you check that website you like to research al the time? The one that records al the strange events around the world?
    I’d like to see if the fog showed up in more than one place and if so, were there other rip currents around or near it at the same time.â€
    â€œWhat website?†Ilya asked.
    â€œI found it by accident a few years ago when I was researching. The website’s at HiddenCurrents.com. A reporter has gathered al sorts of information from various online sites and newspapers, as wel as magazine sources. She writes her own articles as wel . The site covers al kinds of things from weather to earthquakes, remote viewing, experiments, other anomalies—anything odd happening anywhere in the world, you can find it there. She named it Hidden Currents because she thinks al these things are running on the surface of the earth and we just don’t connect the dots.
    She’s trying to connect them.â€
    â€œShe isn’t a government agent?†Ilya asked.
    El e shook her head. “Just an inquisitive reporter, very sharp, who began noticing unusual weather patterns. At first she was looking for global warming signs, but she began speculating about psychic events and whether or not something else was going on. I became intrigued and began studying the various events myself. I think, like al of us, I just thought we were the only ones in the world like us, but Ilya and Jackson are proof we’re not. Now Stavros. There are more lines than just the Drakes that have psychic abilities.â€
    Jackson, without thinking about it, pul ed his mind from El e’s. He didn’t want her to feel his reaction, but every single time she used Gratsos’s more familiar given name, his gut clenched and knotted and he wanted to hurt somebody. Ashamed that he couldn’t control such a visceral reaction, he hid it from her. His arms stayed solidly in place, holding her against him, stil gentle, when deep inside where no one could see, he raged at the need for action on his part.
    â€œIt makes sense that there would be,†Sarah agreed. She looked at Ilya. “You’ve been al over the world, have you met others?â€
    â€œNo, but I don’t think true psychic ability is al that common,†Ilya mused. “People have flashes, moments