Apparent Power: DiaZem Trilogy Book One by Dacia M Arnold

Author:Dacia M Arnold [Arnold, Dacia M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781532379642
Publisher: Dacia M Arnold
Published: 2019-02-07T22:00:00+00:00

Despite her elaborate show of power, Major lay lifeless under Valerie’s hands. She searched his eyes, hoping he would return. She needed him. She needed him to tell her what to do next. She needed him to be her father’s voice of reason in his absence. His energy had not faded, but he was not there. Out of desperation, she began chest compressions.

“Griff, call 911. Please!” Tears rolled down her face.

Major’s head jerked with every thrust. His eyes stared into nowhere.

Jack placed his hands over Valerie’s, but she did not stop. She would keep Major’s heart beating even if he could not. Only when Jack wrapped his muscular arms over hers did she let the defeat overtake her.

The confrontation, the blood, the lifeless man who lay in front of her. If she had listened to him, she could have avoided all of this. She saw her mother where Hyka’s father was. She had picked the most impossible of occupations—trusted to save lives, yet incapable. She saved hundreds of people in her career, but when love was involved, she had failed again. She feared this to be the fate of everyone close to her.

Valerie forgot where she was, who she was, and why she was there. Grief poured from her soul into a tiny ball which kept growing into a hollowness in her chest. She wished the emptiness would collapse on itself and swallow her. She was numb to everything around her but the breaking of her heart.

The passing of time was only given away by the growing darkness casting the team into shadows. Valerie’s adrenaline wore off, and the pain of kneeling on the concrete was becoming more apparent. She shifted her body to lay flat on the ground. Jack was next to her, his shirt still wet with her tears. His eyes closed. His right hand rubbed his forehead hard and slow, caked with dried blood from O’Connell’s face.

Valerie stared up at the dark sky that had flashed bright with lightning as she had never experienced before. The failure drained her emotionally and physically. Her eyes were swollen and raw from crying. She wanted to run away. Leave them all. She did not want the responsibility which came with her awakened gene. She did not want to be a DiaZem or bear the impossible expectations of others. She did not want to be the one to stand by and pick up the pieces of destruction left in her wake.

Hyka lay next to her father with her head on his chest. She, like the rest of the group, was silent. No sobs or mournful sighs. She just stared down at his shoes, not even shifting for comfort. Griff sat facing the bloody pile of Specialist O’Connell. Dirt, blood, and sweat were only washed clean by the tears he allowed to fall down his cheeks. He reminded Valerie of the degenerates along the road to Max’s: stripped of their loved ones and desperate for answers. Courtney sat beside him, both staring a thousand miles away at the same nothing.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.