Omega (An Infinity Division Novel) by Jus Accardo

Author:Jus Accardo [Accardo, Jus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Illuminae Files, alternate dimensions, Beth Revis, Lux series, Alienated, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Time Travel
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-07-31T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Noah

Leaving Cade and Kori behind was like holding a blowtorch to my skin. The fact that I hadn’t gone after them—what the hell had I been thinking?

The answer was simple. I hadn’t been.

For the third time since we’d arrived, I jumped up and started for the door.

Ash, quick little thing that she was, jumped in front of me. Again. “Noah, no. We talked about this. Storming off in a huff is not the way to do this. All you’ll do is give Cora exactly what she wants.”

We’d run through the woods behind Brewster’s place until the air had left our lungs and both our legs refused to work anymore. When we’d come out the other end, we tucked ourselves away in the first vacant house we could find. The place was empty. It’d been looted long ago and every inch of every surface was covered in graffiti—and not the good kind. Kori would have been horrified.

I elbowed Ash aside and reached for the handle. But instead of storming out, I closed my eyes and held my breath, counting to five.

“I understand how you must feel.”

“No you don’t.” I opened my eyes and blew out slowly. It pissed me off that she was standing in the way of me getting to my friends. To my family. It infuriated me that she even had that much power over me. And the look in her eyes? That pitying stare? That almost sent me into a rage-filled tailspin. “Someone like you can’t possibly understand.”

The words horrified me, and yet I couldn’t stop the verbal spewage. It was fueled by my fury for Dylan, over everything that had happened, and fear. For Cade, for Kori—for Ash. I’d lost enough in this world already. My sister, my parents—my life and home. After finding Kori again, I swore that was it. I hadn’t meant to feel anything other than relief over the fact that we’d saved her, then ended up viewing her as an extension of myself, of my blood. She was family—whether I liked it or not, whether I refused to admit it or not. And Cade… I would do anything for him. He was my brother not by blood, but by choice. The one person who would stand with me no matter what. Right, wrong, ugly crimes, or pathetic mistakes—he would always have my back.

But Ash? I was incensed by the strong need to…what? Protect her? Care? If it’d been anyone else in that room with me, I would have stormed out and not looked back. But her? By just telling me not to leave, I found myself paralyzed. In that moment, with all the shit weighing down on me, all I could think about was the promise I’d made to myself. The promise to give her up. To blow the whole thing off and not let anyone else inside. The fact that I hadn’t been able to shake her like I had the others made me twitchy and raw.

It made me an asshole.

“You’ve got no one, right? No family, no friends.

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