Tempted to Death by Jessica Jarman

Author:Jessica Jarman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Jessica Jarman
Published: 2015-12-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Tara leaned against the wall of the motel room, body trembling and hardly able to breathe. Everything in the room shook. The mattresses were skewed off their box springs, anything that had been on the tables now skittered across the floor, and even the freaking air vibrated with Ben’s rage and grief.

She’d barely managed to get him out of the morgue before he’d lost it. Luckily, no one had been looking at them when his power had knocked the tray off its stand. They likely thought he’d physically bumped into it or something.

It’d taken a tremendous amount of energy, shoving past Ben’s mental shields and influencing him to get him into the car and keep him somewhat calm as she booked a room for them at the only motel in town. After texting Oliver and Luca, letting them know what was going on, she’d turned her focus back to her brother. Her brother who had managed to pull free from her hold and had added anger at her for daring to control him to the myriad of emotions that battered at him, rolled out of him wave after wave and filled the room to near bursting.

And Tara could barely stand the onslaught of it, was nearly sick beneath its weight.

“Ben,” she whispered, swallowing down the nausea.

He sat on the floor, now, beneath the window, knees pulled to his chest. She’d never seen her big brother like this—so small, utterly broken, almost child-like, even as his power pulsed around them. He lifted his head, his ginger hair stood on end, his face white and damp, his green eyes full of more tears waiting to fall.

“You need to control it,” she said, pushing up from the wall and crossing the room, teetering as she stepped over things and walked through the thick fog of his emotions.

“She’s gone.” He tugged at his hair. “I knew she was probably gone, I knew that, but seeing her... And she was...she was... I didn’t know, Tara. How did I not know?”

“It was early still. Maybe she didn’t know, yet.” She dropped her knees beside him. “Or maybe she did, and she was coming up with a beautiful, silly way to tell you.”

“Yeah, she was good at that.” A sob burst from his mouth, and he dropped his head forward, again. “It kept her alive for weeks so it could kill our babies, Tara. So, it could take their souls.”

She reached out and took his wrist, and he flinched at the touch. His pulse raced beneath her fingertips—dangerously fast.

“She fought... She’d have fought, right?” His voice was weak, unsteady.

“Of course she would have. She’d have fought for your babies. Fought to come back to you.”

“I don’t know. She was under it’s thrall...”

Tara bit her lip. She didn’t know what to say. What would bring him more comfort. Nicole had been under the creature’s influence—for some time before it took her then when it had come for her—and Tara hated that she hadn’t seen it. Hadn’t recognized Nicole’s distant, almost lost, attitude for what it was.

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