Mind Secrets: A Science Fiction Telepathy Thriller (Perceivers Book 1) by Jane Killick

Author:Jane Killick [Killick, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Young Adult
Publisher: Elly Books
Published: 2016-01-11T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

MICHAEL SAT cross-legged on the bed facing Page.

“Close your eyes, Michael,” she said softly.

He didn’t want to. He looked across at Otis. He was sitting on the bed, propped up on a pillow next to Page looking as nervous as hell.

“Look straight ahead,” said Page.

Michael did as he was told. His breathing was rapid and unsteady, betraying his unease. He was like a little kid at the head of the queue for the rollercoaster, excited and terrified all at the same time. But she had to know that. She was a perceiver.

“I can’t give you an injection of a sedative, so you’ll have to try to stay calm and still, okay?”

“Okay.”

She looked into his eyes. Deep into his eyes. Like she had done that first time in the clinic, and again in the office. Her green irises with flecks of yellowy brown drew his gaze into her intense, black pupils. As her perception entered his mind.

She lifted the hand from her uninjured left side and touched at his temple. He let out a little gasp at the sensation of unexpectedly cold fingers.

“Relax,” she said. “Breathe slow and deep.”

Michael tried.

“In … and out … in … and out … That’s it. Now, close your eyes.”

Spots of red and blue flashed in the darkness of his own eyelids, then settled to a lonely black. He fought to relax, to unfurl his fingers that had clenched into fists and to breathe slow and deep.

He waited. Alone in the darkness of his own mind, the sound of the room amplified to fill the space. Beyond the forced steadiness of his own breathing was the bare whisper of Page’s breath centimetres from him. The rustling of the bed sheets as Otis shuffled nervously beside her. An occasional drip of a leaky tap echoing through the open bathroom door. The creak of the chair where Jennifer sat, watching what was going on. Whatever was going on.

Something touched inside of him. Somewhere in his head. He breathed in sharply. His fingers clenched.

Page, suddenly closer. The smell of her sweat, the touch of her fingers, the hint of her body heat. Overwhelmed by the sense of her. He felt … he wasn’t sure … her heaviness, a weight on her shoulder. A sharp stab of pain. Her pain. The ache of where a bullet had torn through her flesh was inside of him. More real than any sight or sound or smell. He perceived her.

Sensations flowed into his brain. One after another: racing cars whizzing past on a track, a blur of colours.

A wave of anxiety; determined, but uncertain: Otis. He had to be perceiving Otis.

A flash of Jennifer’s timidity.

Barriers being knocked down one by one, allowing him greater and greater access to the minds around him.

Concentration, professionalism, love. Distinctively Page. Was that really love?

Otis: concern, jealousy, distrust, uncertainty. Big and brash like the man himself.

Jennifer: confusion, fear, anxiety.

All together. Flooding into his mind like rain, like a swollen river.

Something without. Tapping at his old senses. He struggled to clear his head of perception.

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