Nova Unchained by D.N. Hoxa

Author:D.N. Hoxa [Hoxa, D.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: D.N. Hoxa
Published: 2018-02-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

I’d never been hit by a train before, but if I had to guess, I’d say it felt like I was feeling when I woke up: head pounding, chest hurting, limbs completely numb.

Opening my eyes was a bit easier than I expected. A white ceiling greeted me, and when I began to feel my hands, I realized I was lying on something soft. A bed. The bed, the one in the room Terrin took me to after the fire spirit procedure.

“Nova, can you hear me?” Terrin said and his face loomed over me the next second.

“Yeah.” My voice was a scratchy mess. He could tell, too, so that’s why he brought me a glass of water.

Ross was in there, too. So was Palmer, and Naomi Cruz. I hadn’t seen her since she ran out of the interrogation room when Ross first questioned me. Terrin helped me to sit up so I could drink, and when I saw all of them sitting around the bed, looking at me like I was the most curious little thing, I wanted to hide under the blankets.

“What’s wrong?” I asked after I drank the water, my voice much stronger right away.

“Nothing’s wrong,” Ross said. He attempted a smile, but failed half way. I called him on his bullshit by raising my brows. Of course, there was something wrong, otherwise nobody would have been in there, waiting for me to wake up. You’d think stuff like that would make one feel special. You’d be wrong.

“We took the liberty of running some blood tests while you were unconscious,” Palmer said. “I hope you don’t mind.”

Good thing I didn’t. “And?”

“The results came back just now,” he said. “And they say you are completely human.”

“Oh.” Well, hadn’t I said that from the very beginning?

“Which is not possible, because more than fifteen people saw you fight against the servants yesterday, and nine people saw you cover an entire room in ice,” Ross said.

I bit my lip and looked at Terrin. What did he think about all of this?

Nothing, apparently, because he wouldn’t even look at me while he stood by my bed.

“Miss Vaughn, I’m sure you can understand that we need to take precautions. It’s why I’m here,” Naomi Cruz said. “And I’m going to ask you what you’re hiding from us.”

My eyes almost popped out of my skull. “I’m not hiding anything from you.”

As if I’d insulted her, Cruz stood up with a sigh, and came to stand right in front of me. I almost leaned away. She looked into my eyes like she was searching for my soul, and when she found it, she asked me again.

“Are you hiding something from us?”

The words hung on the air, too big to fit through my ears for a second. And when they did register in my brain, they didn’t feel like mere words. They felt like an order. An order I could not ignore.

“No,” my mouth said before I even thought of the answer. I couldn’t figure out how, but it was like Dixon had control over my voice cords.

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