Courage (Mark of Nexus) by Butler Carrie

Author:Butler, Carrie [Butler, Carrie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-10-07T21:00:00+00:00

“Where is he?” I asked, trying to keep myself from shoving Corynn aside in order to investigate his room.

Something was wrong. He wasn’t supposed to be having a cluster now. I’d felt it rumbling at the edge of my consciousness a second ago, his anxiety pulsing through my veins.

“Wallace?” She cocked her head to the side. “He hopped in the shower real quick, but he’ll—”

I shook my head and tried to peer around her. “I need you to move.”

“What?”

For Pete’s sake. Didn’t they speak English in England? “Just move, Corynn!”

I charged into the room and did a quick scan. The TV was on, Wallace’s clothes were strewn everywhere, but he was nowhere to be found. I nodded my head toward the bathroom door. “That locked?”

“You going to bust in on him?” She gaped at me as if I’d grown another head. “Why?”

I bent down and rifled through his bottom desk drawer. Just as I thought, his month’s supply had been left in a chaotic array. “He needs me.”

“For what?”

If this girl wasn’t careful, she was going to find my last nerve. It was bad enough she weakened the Nexus. Now I had to deal with her mouth? “He’s having one of his headaches, okay?”

“Ah, I heard about those.”

I grabbed a case and stood up. “Yeah.”

“But how do you know he’s having one?”

Seriously? I looked up and met her gaze with a glare that could melt titanium. “How do you think?”

“Oh.” She worried her lip with her teeth. “But I thought my powers or whatever blocked that out.”

“Rena!”

“Not enough,” I snapped, making for the door. “Look, I’m sorry for being a bitch, but I don’t have time to deal with this right now.”

I jiggled the handle a few times and cursed under my breath. Locked.

Could I pull his strength and bust this sucker down? I closed my eyes, ran a hand over the smooth wooden panel, and tried to find something—anything—that linked us together. Wait. Wallace didn’t have his strength during clusters. And even if he did, Corynn would block that, too…

A wounded groan came from the other side of the door, and my heart skipped a beat in panic. Shit. I looked around until my eyes focused on the still-open doorway to the common room. The other entrance!

I tore past Corynn and Aiden, and then Josh and his Xbox. “Stay out here,” I demanded, jerking their bathroom door open.

“But, what are you—” Aiden began.

“Sorry.” The steam hit my face, and I plowed headlong into it, slamming the door behind me.

“Rena,” Wallace gasped.

“I’m here, baby,” I reassured him, startled by how shaky I sounded. My hands fumbled with the case as I opened it and tried to get the cartridge out.

“Shit…shit…fuh—ahh…” His voice broke in the clouds between us. I could barely make out his rocking form on the floor of the shower, naked and writhing with pain. “Get it.”

I blinked away tears and ran over. “Okay, just let me…let me…” I couldn’t keep my hands steady as I peeled the paper back and popped the lid.

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