The Soul Bond by Anita Oh

Author:Anita Oh [Oh, Anita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Published: 2016-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Knowing that Tennyson could feel everything I felt was kind of awkward. By the time we got back to school, I felt almost normal again, but my thoughts were racing from one embarrassing scenario to another. Could he feel it when I needed to go to the toilet? Could he feel it whenever I saw Sam and my belly flipped? Could he feel it when I ate so much that I was slipping into a food coma but still kept on eating anyway? There were some things I just didn't want to share willy-nilly, and it wasn't as if I could ask him. The only way to know was to try to focus, like he'd said, and see if I could separate his feelings from the strange feelings of the Becoming.

The Golden House was all lit up when we passed through the gate.

"Everyone is worried," Tennyson said.

Sam was pacing in front of the fireplace when we entered the common room. Nikolai was staring vacantly into space, seeming more pale than usual. Their eyes snapped to the doorway as we entered. I'd always thought Nikolai didn't care much for me, that he only tolerated me because he had to, but he sagged in his seat when he saw us, a hand clapped over his face. Sam grabbed me up in a crushing hug.

"We thought you were dead, you idiot," Nikolai said to me. "Next time you can't handle something, say you can't handle it, instead of acting all tough and then trying to murder your history class."

I couldn't answer him, because Sam had squeezed all the breath out of me. Finally, he let me go and stepped back, his hands on my shoulders.

"You look a wreck," he said. "You should go have a hot bath and some rest."

I probably should, I knew that, but I didn't want to be that far from Tennyson just yet. I glanced over at him and knew that he could tell that. It was the perfect time to test whether I could feel his feelings too. Tentatively, I reached out through the bond, ignoring that bubbling power just under the surface that didn't belong to either of us. It was difficult, confusing, but all of a sudden, I could feel an exhaustion that was apart from my own. It was tinged with relief and exasperation and a bunch of other stuff, but it seemed shaded differently from my own feelings, almost as if he felt things in a different color than I did. That wasn't exactly it, but it was the closest I could come to understanding it.

"I think you should be saying that to Tennyson," I said.

He gave me a short nod, and I knew it wasn't because he agreed with what I said but that he was acknowledging that I'd felt what he was feeling. That he appreciated that I’d heard what he’d said and tried.

He was right: this was completely different from the pack bond that I'd experienced when I'd been in his body.

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