The Vanishing Girl by Laura Thalassa

Author:Laura Thalassa
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: Lavabrook Publishing Group
Published: 2014-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

I SAT ON the carpet in front of Caden’s bed, clad in an oversized shirt and sweats, and watched as Caden showed me the various parts of a gun and how to assemble them. Unlike me, the government seemed to trust him with actual weapons.

Everything about Caden was sexy. From his rich voice, to the way his forearms rippled as he assembled the weapon, to the way he looked at me. I’d noticed this all before, but after the shower, I noticed each feature with renewed appreciation.

“Ember, are you even paying attention?” Caden eyed me suspiciously.

“What—oh yeah.” It had been two hours since we jumped out of the shower, yet still I couldn’t stop visualizing him naked. I had thought this was a dude problem, but nope, right now it was a girl problem as well.

“Ember.”

“Huh?”

“Stop eyeing me like I’m going to be your next meal. It’s distracting.” Caden’s eyes dropped to my mouth.

“Sorry.” I couldn’t even come up with a witty response, that’s how distracted I was.

“It’s okay. Can you repeat back to me the first three steps of assembling an SSAK forty-seven using the terms I just went over?”

I diligently repeated the steps back to him when a knock on the door interrupted us.

“Come in!” Caden called.

Two men dressed in fatigues came into the room. “Are you ready for your mission?” one asked. But it wasn’t really a question.

I heard Caden curse under his breath. “Sorry, princess,” he said to me, “I forgot about this.” To the men he said, “Yeah, I’m ready.” He stood up.

Crap, I still hadn’t checked that sheet to find out when our second simulation would be. I glanced at Caden. “Is our second simulation today?”

“No, it’s tomorrow.” He wouldn’t look at me.

“Then where are you …” Mission. That’s what the man had said. That Caden was going on a mission.

“You can stay in my room for as long as you want,” Caden said. He leaned in and brushed my lips with his. Before I had a chance to kiss him back, he pulled away and followed the men out.

I touched my lips and watched the door click shut. Even though Caden had been sent to capture me two weeks ago, I had assumed that was a special occasion. My impression was that everyone in my classes was preparing to go on missions for the first time ever. It had never crossed my mind that some had already started doing them.

I LEFT CADEN’S room shortly after he did, intent on grabbing dinner. Now that he was no longer there, I had no reason to stay in it.

As I turned the corner to the dining hall, I heard shouts in the distance. Reflexively I moved towards the noise.

I shouldn’t have bothered; it was getting closer and closer to me. A stretcher rounded the corner and on it I saw something I’d only seen pictures of.

A teleporter drenched in blood lay on the stretcher, his naked body only covered where the medics had tried to temporarily staunch the blood loss.

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