Resonance: the Seismic Series, Book 2 by Natalie J. Damschroder

Author:Natalie J. Damschroder [Natalie J. Damschroder]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dragonsoul Books
Published: 2022-10-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“I know a safe house in Maine where we can go to regroup. It’s off the grid. We can process this and decide what to do next.”

Kendall drove carefully over the rails across the trench and gunned the SUV once they were past it. “Thank you, but no. We have to put some distance between us and here. Lay a trail in the wrong direction. I know what to do next.”

Grant didn’t say anything until they hit a straightaway. Then he reached over to take her right hand off the wheel, drawing it carefully over to cradle it in both of his. “Kendall, you got hit by a lot back there. There’s nothing wrong with taking a breath and working through it.”

She squeezed his hand and drew hers away. “I know. But I just…can’t.” She didn’t know how to explain without sounding naive and stupid.

It wasn’t like she actually thought there was a dividing line between good and evil, that the world she operated in wasn’t full of choices between bad and worse. But it had never felt that difficult to her. Maybe it was because of how she started, in that underground fight scene in high school. You had an opponent, and you worked to defeat them. Positive results were the goal of everything she’d done since then. Making things better, or stopping them from getting worse.

Nothing had worked like that since the day she discovered the toxin in the catacombs. The sample of the interesting, unusual fungus she’d collected as a near afterthought had led to so much destruction. But still, lines had been clear to her. Proctor had crossed them, was tangled with people firmly on the wrong side. And the rest of the team had been used without their knowledge and had taken action as soon as they discovered that.

Now she couldn’t believe anything was true. It left her more off-balance than she’d ever been in her life, and all she wanted to do was lean on Grant, who’d been a rock through all of this. She’d never actually questioned his motives, even though she’d tried to use that to push him away. Logically, she could see that he cared about her, cared about what was happening here. It was the kind of job he’d probably take if it had been offered to him through the usual channels—find the bad guys, take them down before they hurt more people. And after Janie darted him, he had a vested interest in following this through.

But could she trust her instincts? There had been so much manipulation going on, and she’d fallen victim to it. Her wrung-out brain kept seeing manipulation in the threads of the last few days, too. Not that he was doing the manipulating, but was he being strung along in a way that made him think he had feelings for her that weren’t real? When he was clear of it, would he realize that? Resent her for what he’d been through? Assuming either one of them made it through this, their relationship could fail his test.

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