Atlantis Rising by Gloria Craw

Author:Gloria Craw
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ally Condie;Atlantia;paranormal romance;Tahereh Mafi;Shannon Messenger;special abilities;underwater world
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Sometime later, I heard the door open and knew Brandy had come in.

“Look at the two of you,” she said sympathetically. She came and knelt by the mattress. “Spencer and Katherine are coming back in their jet,” she continued, smoothing my hair. “They should be cleared to fly in a few minutes. I expect them to be here in about an hour.”

She got up to leave, but Ian called her back. “The cars and the body,” he said. “They’re still at the store.”

“I’ll call Lillian. We’ll take care of it,” she replied.

“Please call my parents,” I muttered. “Tell them I’m spending the night with you. If others are looking for me, I don’t want to drag my family into it. They can’t fight like you guys can.”

“Okay,” Brandy said and quietly let the room.

When Spencer Thane burst through the door, Katherine was right on his heels. They came straight to us. Spencer put a hand on his son’s head, and Ian pushed it away. “I’m okay,” he muttered. “It’s fading already. Work on her first.”

Spencer put his hand on my forehead. Then he closed his eyes in concentration, and a pleasant warmth spread through my body. The knots in my head untied and my breathing returned to normal. Spencer was sweating when he turned away from me.

“Thank you,” I whispered.

I closed my eyes and knew he was working on Ian when the tension in his body relaxed behind me. His arms loosened and slid limply to his sides.

“Help me lay them down,” Spencer said.

Katherine pulled me away from Ian and arranged me more comfortably on the mattress. I could feel Spencer do the same with Ian.

“We’ll just let them rest,” Spencer said as the left.

The room was lighter when I woke up. I stretched out one leg, and that was enough to tell me I was going to be stiff for a long time. My body felt bruised, like I’d been used as someone’s punching bag. With a small groan, I straightened out my other leg.

I’d forgotten Ian was next to me. He sighed in his sleep. His breath was soft on my neck. Out of nowhere his body twitched. The movements triggered a flashback of what had happened behind the Shadow Box. A crystal-clear picture of the tiger flashed onto the big screen in my mind. I saw the sadistic joy spread over his face as he mentally tightened his grip on me. I saw myself topple to the burning pavement and heard my own moans of pain. Then Ian came running toward the tiger and leaped onto his back, pulling him backward.

In the seconds that followed, I processed what I hadn’t before. In spite of a broken neck, the tiger’s mind was still active and alive. He’d withdrawn from my mind so he could engage Ian in an unseen mind warfare. The camera in my mind cut back to Ian. He radiated incredible heat as he stood over the tiger. He was fighting in a way I couldn’t see or understand, but I knew the moment it was finished, because he came to me.

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