The Teacher: The Dupre Family, #2

By Cece Odey

Alex is Liz's sister and she is missing, perhaps dead. How did Liz know? Liz and Alex are twins and have a telepathic connection, which after extreme pain has gone and Liz for the first time in her life doesn't have Alex in her head - she is alone and worried.

Liz traces Alex's last known address and meets her lover, Ambassador Christopher Dupre who hasn't seen her for months after an argument.

Join Liz and the Ambassador as they search for Alex and watch them fall in love, despite the fact that Alex had been his lover and Liz is her identical twin.

Here's a short Extract.

 

Just after she was settled in a small bare room, the pain came back this time stronger than before and she screamed with its intensity. After the third occasion, the nurse sedated her so that she could rest.
Liz was sedated a total of three days. Even with the deepest layers of sedation, they could only keep the worse of the pain away and Liz was wracked with pain again and again. After 60 hours the pain suddenly stopped and Liz fell into a deep drug induced sleep. The drugs were gradually reduced so the last 8 hours were natural sleep.
It was late in the afternoon when Liz eventually woke. At first she was a little disorientated but soon remembered what had happened. She felt strange, quite strange and knew that something was seriously wrong. All the time she ate her first meal in days, she tried to figure out what was new. Then it hit her, the silence; for the first time in her life she was alone, she couldn't feel her sister. Even after the accident, she felt her and now she couldn't.

The cry she let out was described by as that of a wounded animal by all who heard it and when a nurse rushed into her room she found Liz curled into the foetal position with silent tears streaming down her face

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marian Blake
• Release date: Jun 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201053994

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Thank you for buying this book.

I would also like to thank the Good fiction Fast group on Facebook for all their encouragement and advice.

The picture for the cover of this book is adapted from an image called On the beach and is by Ambrozjo’s. It is available to down load from www.sxc.hu.

Chapter 1

As Liz turned around to look at her students, who were all concentrating on the quantum physics questions she had set them in their weekly quiz, she winced. The dull ache in her back had been with her for nearly a day became a little more intense. At first she had put in down to her injured leg but that should have gone with the physio exercises and pain killers she had taken.

Half way through the day, she realised that it wasn't her ache but that of her sisters. They were identical twins and were able to share thoughts and feelings across space. By mutual agreement at puberty, they had decided to shield things from each other so they could have privacy. They had agreed times like their birthday to drop their shields and other thoughts or feelings only broke the barrier if they were especially strong. Funnily, it was probably a good thing that sexual orgasms didn't seem to cross over, especially as Alex went by the name of Skye and was a professional companion to an Ambassador. Although they were shielded, they always could feel each other's presence so never felt alone.

The ache had continued throughout the day and nothing seemed to block it out. Liz was glad that this was her last teaching period and she could go home to deal with the psychic ache. Jon, one of her gifted students, put up his hand. As she crossed the classroom with her permanent limp she felt a surge of pain pierce her to her core and she bent over to ease the agony. She hadn't felt pain like it since the accident and found she could not prevent the cry of agony escaping her lips.

The class immediately stopped their work and gathered round to see if they could help. At least they were old enough to call for help and to lay her in the recovery position. The pain had started to recede by the time the school nurse arrived and she was able to sit up. The nurse, after checking her vital signs, arranged for teaching cover and the moved her to the school infirmary. It was days like today that Liz was glad she was in a boarding school on a mining moon with all the facilities nearby.

Just after she was settled in a small bare room, the pain came back this time stronger than before and she screamed with its intensity. After the third occasion, the nurse sedated her so that she could rest.

Liz was sedated a total of three days. Even with the deepest layers of sedation, they could only keep the worse of the pain away and Liz was wracked with pain again and again. After 60 hours the pain suddenly stopped and Liz fell into a deep drug induced sleep. The drugs were gradually reduced so the last 8 hours were natural sleep.

It was late in the afternoon when Liz eventually woke. At first she was a little disorientated but soon remembered what had happened.  She felt strange, quite strange and knew that something was seriously wrong. All the time she ate her first meal in days, she tried to figure out what was new. Then it hit her, the silence; for the first time in her life she was alone, she couldn't feel her sister. Even after the accident, she felt her and now she couldn't.

The cry she let out was described by as that of a wounded animal by all who heard it and when a nurse rushed into her room she found Liz curled into the foetal position with silent tears streaming down her face.

It took a week for Liz to gain her strength so that she could go back to work. Teaching had been her life but now she could hardly bare going back into the classroom. The sense of being alone had not left her and she could only just contain her grief at losing her twins presence. Occasionally she felt something but thought it was an echo of the past.

She spent her first evening in her room going over what the loss could mean and how she would discover the truth. The realistic part of her knew that there was little hope that her twin was still alive but she also knew that she would not rest until she found out what had happened. Having made her decision to search for her twin, she started planning what she needed to do.

Fortunately, she had a large private income even before the