Countercurrent: Book Four of the Atlas Link Series by Jessica Gunn

Author:Jessica Gunn [Gunn, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

CHELSEA

I didn’t have time to so much as sit down before they hounded me with questions. General Holt wanted to know what’d happened and everything Trevor had said. Major Pike demanded a play-by-play. Only Josh’s insistence, my troubled breathing, and Valerie’s tense presence kept them at bay. When they’d finally scared them off, Valerie paced the distance between my hospital bed and the door. Josh found me an oxygen mask and hooked me up to it.

I removed the mask to ask Valerie, “Why are you pacing?”

She froze and turned to me. She stared for a long moment, tears building in her eyes. Her face grew red and splotchy.

Oh, boy.

“Valerie, everything’s going to be—”

She shook her head. “No. It’s not. Chelsea, I have to tell you something and you’re not going to like it.”

Josh’s eyes narrowed on her. “What’s wrong?”

I looked between both of them. When had these two—my ex-boyfriend and the woman who’d stood by while Thompson had killed Michael—become my protectors, my support system? Why did I have the feeling that was about to suddenly crash apart?

Valerie worried her lower lip and crossed her arms over her chest. “We had a plan.”

“Who had a plan?” Josh asked.

No. Please no. “Don’t tell me…” Valerie and Trevor had hidden things from me before. His illness when he’d had the map in his head. And the fact that she was alive and back at all. That they’d known I was in trouble at TruGates, that all the super soldiers were.

Valerie wrung her hands together. “I found out the White City—their council—wanted you. Because of the Waterstar map being in your head, and the fact that you’d made SeaSat5 into a Link Piece that led to Atlantis. Even with the Atlas Cache destroyed, there’s still this stain on time there. A stain big enough for them to feed on for their life-blood.”

My fists clenched, heart rate skyrocketing, and I had to close my eyes and force myself to take deep breaths from the oxygen mask to keep from losing my absolute shit on Valerie. “Do not, I swear to god, do not tell me you handed Trevor to any sect of the White City as a substitute for me.”

Valerie’s strong exterior crumbled under my accusation and tears spilled from her eyes. A broken sound left her mouth. “To protect you from them, from General Allen, from—”

“From no one,” I hissed. “You two do this, the both of you, all the damn time. And not once have you ever stopped to think that maybe I should have a fucking say in my own future!”

Josh reached out for me. “Chelsea, please—”

“Absolutely not,” I growled. “You’ve hid all the big things from me for years, and now you pull this? What even was the plan? Did you know he took my powers? How did he take them from me?”

“That I really, honest to god, don’t know,” Valerie said. “He’s never had abilities. Not as a kid, not now. And he’s Lemurian. There’s no way he can have Atlantean powers, not even with the connection you two shared.

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