Ground Zero (Blue-Eyed Bomb Book 5) by Amber Lynn Natusch

Author:Amber Lynn Natusch [Natusch, Amber Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amber Lynn Natusch
Published: 2023-05-30T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

An eerie stillness surrounded me as I stood outside in the dark of night, the bitter Chicago winds whipping in my face. Dense smoke surrounded me, obscuring my vision, but I didn’t need to see to know that something was wrong—that something terrible had happened. I reached out with my empath senses and was met with one overwhelming sensation.

Death…

The empty hollow of its darkness echoed through my mind, casting it in a curtain of black that I could not escape. It strangled my thoughts—my memories—choking them out so easily that I struggled to remember anything. I should have been terrified, but I wasn’t. Terror was a feeling I had no room for as I stood under the veil of death.

Only despair.

I’d felt this emptiness once before—when I’d destroyed a piece of the world that would never be restored.

For a fleeting moment, I wondered if I had again.

Flashes of what I’d done in my past soon mixed with my fractured memories of the present, but they snuffed out before the images became clear. All I could see was the smoke I now stood amid—smoke and fire and blood. All I heard were echoes of the voices screaming my name.

“Phira, don’t…Phira, stop!”

But I hadn’t listened to them.

I had not stopped.

And as I looked down at my bloodstained hands, the fog lifted from my mind, bringing clarity and realization along with it. Realization of what had just happened. Clarity on the source of the red spatter painting my clothes. My face. My hair.

“What have I done?” I whispered into the darkness that threatened to consume me.

But the darkness never answered.

I shot awake, ragged breaths raking down my throat as panic consumed me. TS was upright seconds later, warm hazel eyes boring into mine as I tried to calm myself.

“What’s wrong?” he asked as his arm wrapped around my shoulders.

“I had a dream—a nightmare. There were bodies everywhere… bodies I recognized…” He sat in silence as I told him what I remembered, the dream becoming less and less solid with every passing moment. By the time I finished, the details were nearly lost entirely. “What do you think it means?”

His lips pressed to a grim line. “Maybe nothing. Maybe everything. There is no way to know for certain. But I do know that you have seen much death in the past two days, and its threat still looms. It’s no wonder your dreams would lead you down a dark path.”

“Yeah,” I sighed, scrubbing my hands over my face. “It doesn’t help knowing that Gabe will use anyone I love against me.”

His expression tightened further. “No, it does not.” The mattress groaned as he shifted closer to me, pulling me in until my cheek rested against his chest. “The Fates may have fallen victim to his plan, but Gabe has not yet won.”

My body tensed at the memory of Zale skewering me with his poisoned blade. Then something occurred to me: an idea so simple, yet obvious, that I couldn’t believe none of us had thought of it.

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