Avenged (The Altered Series) by Marnee Blake

Author:Marnee Blake [Blake, Marnee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: stranded, romance, protector, Entangled, Embrace, military, virgin, new adult, Kidnapping, woman in peril, NA
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-06-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Again.”

If Nick wasn’t so emotionally threadbare, he might have laughed. Kitty had embraced her new role as taskmaster with relish. She stood across the room, her hands on her hips, her brows low.

The sun was setting outside. He’d tried to call it quits earlier. She looked tired, and he suspected her exhaustion wasn’t only physical. Watching him struggle through the change must have taken more out of her than he could even imagine.

“You’re almost there. I could breathe that time, so you’ve learned to hold me still and let me breathe. Now you can master moving me.”

“I watched Blue and Luke do this easily.” He shook his head at her. “Why did this take all day to learn?”

“Because you’re a massive perfectionist?” she offered. “Honestly, you’re trying too hard. Blue and Luke didn’t have time to think about it. They had to learn fast. We were running for our lives, remember?”

He supposed, but it frustrated him that it was taking so long. They didn’t have time for him to be slow on the uptake.

“It hasn’t been that long. You’ve only been changed since this morning. Give yourself a break.”

He snorted. He wasn’t used to not being good at something immediately.

“The rest of us mortals have to practice at stuff.” She fake-gasped. “Imagine. The horror.”

He smirked at her, but didn’t dignify that with a comment. He needed to get this before tomorrow. He didn’t have time to waste.

He was having a hard time concentrating, though.

He’d thought they’d turned a corner this morning when he woke up. Even before that, when they’d kissed. God, that kiss…Thinking about it now, he wanted to reach for her. To breathe in her smell, feel her soft skin.

After he woke up, she’d hugged him as if she never wanted to let him go.

Then she’d found out that he could move things with his mind, and she’d pulled back again.

He’d been trying to figure it out. Kitty’s feelings toward Blue and Luke hadn’t changed after they got telekinesis. At least, not that he knew. Surely that wasn’t what changed her toward him.

If that wasn’t it, he couldn’t figure it out.

He might not understand, but he’d followed her lead. He’d wondered if she might need some space. To think. He imagined it had been hard, watching him be sick. He didn’t remember the details, but it hadn’t been pretty.

One thing he did know for certain: she’d saved his life.

He’d burned. His entire body had been pain. When he’d wanted it to be over, when he couldn’t take any more, she’d been there, a whisper at the back of his mind.

Stay with me, she’d said. Stay with me.

He’d refused to fail her.

But she’d backed away from him. She was distant, guarded.

It rattled him, left him off-kilter. He’d hoped…had wanted to connect with her so much. To feel like he’d made that connection only to find himself back at the beginning… It was discouraging, to say the least.

As he studied her, preparing to try again, he let himself take her in.

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