Icarians: Poisoned Dreams Read Online Free Page B

together?" Jaxon went on to ask her.
"No they got divorced about three years ago. My dad is a criminal lawyer, and my mom is a pediatrician, they are still friends, as hard as that is to believe but it makes it easy on me." Analeigh told them between bites, letting his coerce comment pass.
"Well I better get back to work if I want to finish the lawn before dark." Jaxon said as he stood up, took his dish to the sink then turned to go outside.
When she heard the mower start up again she turned to Mercedes.
"He doesn’t want to do this does he?"
"Oh no its not that at all, he has a lot on his mind right now and really I think this will help him." Mercedes said reassuringly.
"Well it seems like he can't stand to be in the same room as me." Analeigh said as she started cleaning up.
"No trust me, it isn't you at all. Plus he is a little on the shy side."
Analeigh found it a little hard to believe that as sexy as he was that he would be shy, but she didn't reveal her thoughts to Mercedes. They finished cleaning up the kitchen together.
"Hey why don't you come out with me tonight?"
“Um I don't know..." Analeigh started caught off guard.
"Oh come on, its Friday night, I'm not going to let you sit here all alone. Come out with me, we can go into town, have a few drinks at Harry's. What do you say?" Mercedes looked so hopeful that Analeigh couldn't say no.
    "Ok it sounds like fun."
"Great! lets finish up for the day, that will give you a little time to relax and get dressed." Mercedes suggested.
"That sounds good to me." They worked for a couple more hours until they had all the furniture outside and wiped down. “Its not going to rain is it?” Analeigh asked as she wiped the sweat off her brow.
    Mercedes laughed and answered “No I don’t think so. I’ll come over in the morning to help put it all back in place.”
    Analeigh and Mercedes talked for a bit longer then Mercedes walked outside to leave, but got stopped by Jaxon. Jaxon felt a little jolt of panic when he saw his sister start to leave. He ran to catch up with her.
"Hey what the hell are you doing?" He demanded.
"What? We are finished for the day." She said innocently.
"Well I'm not done yet!" He said furiously.
"Oh that’s fine, Analeigh said when ever you felt like leaving was fine with her." Mercedes said and added with a smile, "Don't worry she thinks you don't like her."
"Oh in that case I feel so much better!" Jaxon said sarcastically, mostly frustrated with himself.
"Our deal was that you wouldn't leave me alone with her." He reminded his sister.
"Then leave! Look Jaxon your a big boy, you can handle this."
"Oh I can handle it, but can she?" He joked as he thought about how ridiculous he was being.
"That’s right you'll be fine." She said as she turned to leave.
Analeigh watched as Mercedes and Jaxon argued a little and wondered again what his deal was. She fixed a big glass of iced tea and walked it out to him.
"Thought you might be thirsty." Analeigh said as she handed the glass to him.
"Thanks." was all he said as he took a drink.
"Well listen, I know you probably got pushed into this job so I won't hold it against you if you just want to walk away."
"I said I would do it and I will until the job is done." He said in an angry voice, looking up at her.
She was a little taken aback by his rudeness.
"OK then. I'm done for the day so I'm going up to relax a while, you can leave when ever you want." She told him as she walked away.
She heard him grumbling something to himself as she went back inside.
    Upstairs she went into the bathroom and turned the water on until it was the perfect temperature and started to fill up the old claw foot bathtub. She added some of her favorite bath salts and bubble bath to the water, got undressed and slipped into the tub when it was full. She lay back and could instantly feel the stress melt from her body. She never realize she fell asleep and started dreaming of the dark man again.
    'She was back in the buttercup field, this