Indestructible (Indestructible Trilogy Book 1) by Emma L. Adams

Author:Emma L. Adams [Adams, Emma L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-01-07T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Cas rolls his eyes. “You do know the fiends will be here soon? And we need to make it back before sunset.”

“What, so you can disappear again?” I narrow my eyes back at him. “Nice try. What if I want to say I’m not coming back?”

An eyebrow arches. “You are coming back.”

“That’s funny, I thought you didn’t want me there. I distinctly remember you wanting to leave me to die in the wilderness.”

Cas’s eyes narrow, but he says nothing. I have him there. Savouring the brief moment of triumph, I say, “Told you. Now, answers. Did I just use some kind of energy blast?”

“In a manner of speaking.” Cas moves out of range of my knife. Not that I’d actually stab him with it—well, maybe. If he doesn’t tell me what I just did. Nolan catches up, visibly pale and shocked.

I direct my questions at both of them. “What I did isn’t normal, is it? And the fiends—you knew that monster, or someone who knew him. How?”

“Pick one question.”

“Pedant,” I mutter. “Fine. What the hell did I just do?”

“Ask Murray.”

“Murray’s told me even less than you have.” I cross my arms. “Look. I know you don’t like me, and I’m not overly fond of you either. But I just caused a freaking explosion. If there was a person, a normal human, standing nearby, then—” I can’t go on. I can’t think of what happened the last time I got too close to an energy blast. Randy’s face comes to mind, and an onrush of images of the other people I spent two years in the wilderness with. Tears tremble at the edges of my eyes. I squeeze them shut and look away, renewed anger making my body shake.

“Yeah, they’d be toast,” says Cas.

“Cas!” says Nolan, shoving him. Hard.

“Don’t touch me,” says Cas. “She wants the truth, she gets it. Without Murray’s sugar-coating. You’d think we weren’t fighting a war.”

“You’re not fighting a war,” I point out. “You’re screwing with me. Are you not telling me the truth because you don’t know?”

“You insolent—”

“She has a point,” says Nolan. “Leah, we really don’t know. I haven’t seen a power like yours since…” He trails off as Cas gives him a murderous stare.

“And no one thought to tell me I could cause a freaking explosion?” I stare at the two of them, unable to believe it.

“We didn’t know,” said Nolan. “I thought…” Again, he trails off. Cas’s eyes are narrowed to slits, and he looks about ready to stab someone.

“Let me get this straight,” I say. “You didn’t know. But that fiend knew something. Right? It knew Murray, and it knew you.”

I struggle not to flinch as Cas’s stare pins me to the spot.

“It’s true,” says Nolan. “Must be one of the older fiends. I didn’t think they had long memories.”

“Long memories,” I say. “So it’s been here since…”

“The invasion,” says Nolan. “The fiends are leftovers from the original war, trapped in our world. Most aren’t intelligent enough to remember it.”

“Most of them don’t speak,” I point out.

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