Savior Part 2: Son of Eden (The Savior Series) by A. King Bradley Page A

know? And it doesn’t help that I’ve started to have that dream again.”
    “What dream?” Nina asked as she abruptly sat up and turned to me.
    “The dream,” I replied. “The one where Reaper dies and I’m standing at his funeral on Eden.”
    “I see,” Nina responded as she studied me. “I guess that means there’s no talking you out of this, is there?”
    “No,” I replied. “I’ve made up my mind.”
    “Then it’s settled. I’m coming with you,” she insisted as she suddenly whipped out her smartphone and quickly typed out a text message.
    “No way Nina,” I protested. “There’s no way I’m dragging you into this too.”
    “Aww, that’s so cute,” Nina smiled as she continued to type on her phone.
    “’What’s cute?” I wondered.
    “You thought I was asking,” she said with a smile. “You’re so adorable,” she mocked as she looked up at me and flashed her bright yet devious smile at me.
    “Nina, I—”
    “Wait!” Nina exclaimed as her phone suddenly began to vibrate.
    “What is it?!” I asked, intrigued by her sudden excitement.
    “See for yourself,” Nina said proudly as she scooted backward until she was at the head of the bed, directly beside me. My heart thumped excitedly as she extended her hand and I reached from under the covers and grabbed her phone. My jaw nearly hit the floor when I saw a text message from Howie Vargas, one of Reaper’s best friends. I’ll try to reach out to her in a couple of days, the message read. It wasn’t from Reaper himself but I was still excited beyond belief.
    “How did you get him to reply? H-How do you even have Howie’s number?” I asked, still staring at the phone in awe, wondering if Reaper was anywhere nearby when Howie sent the reply.
    “Howie used to do all of my homework in exchange for my lunches back in the day so I still had his number saved to my contacts.”
    “I still have his number too, but whenever I tried texting or calling him, Jason, or Reaper, I never got a response. How did you get him to agree to contact me?”
    “Let’s just say I took one for the team,” Nina said with a silly grin plastered across her face.
    “Wow!” I said, blushing as I scrolled up on her phone and revealed a very provocative picture that she must have sent to Howie. She wasn’t completely naked or anything, but I’m sure that that wouldn’t have been her parents’ favorite picture of her.
    “You like?” Nina asked jokingly as she threw her head back and struck the same pose from the picture.
    “You’re too much,” I giggled as I softly tossed her phone at her. She stopped posing just in time to catch the phone before it hit her.
    “When is he going to call? What am I supposed to do?” I asked. “It’s not like he’s just going to give up Reaper’s location just because you sent him a picture.”
    “You never know. He’s always had a pretty big crush on me,” Nina boasted.
    “Yeah, well Reaper’s his best friend so I’m not sure if that’ll be enough,” I replied.
    “You’re saying I should take it farther than PG-13?” she asked.
    “No!” I replied, embarrassed that she thought I would ask that of her.
    “I was joking!” she said, laughing hysterically as she pointed at my face.
    “Well you looked serious,” I said, relieved that she was only kidding.
    “You know I wouldn’t do anything like that… unless we were talking about Jason,” she admitted, smiling from ear to ear as she spoke.
    “Okay, now you’re doing way too much,” I chuckled.
    “I’m just saying,” she giggled. “Speaking of Jason… you know how you owe me absolutely everything in the world since I’m the one that’s about to put you back in contact with your long lost BF?” she continued.
    “What do you want, Nina?” I asked, jokingly shaking my head.
    “Well… I’d like you to put in a good word for me with Jason,” she smirked. “But not—I mean… you don’t have to make me sound desperate or anything.