Thunder Rolling: A Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance (The Storm Book 2) by Ripley Proserpina & Rebecca Royce

Author:Ripley Proserpina & Rebecca Royce [Proserpina, Ripley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

18

Dante

Walking through the Virginia Mountains in the summertime was like walking in a Disney movie with a bluebird whistling above my head.

In cartoon form, of course.

If my head had been in any other space, I could have appreciated it. But not right now. Not when my entire life hung in the balance.

I had no doubt that my destination would result in my death. Karlton had waited a long time to get me back, and once I solved whatever problem he had, he’d kill me. The man, though brilliant, wasn’t much of a forward thinker. He might have a moment of regret in the future when he came upon another problem he couldn’t solve, but it wouldn’t save me now.

I turned up a long, winding dirt trail in the direction of the Mill Mountain Star. We’d fought Controlled there, and there were probably some still crawling about. Linked to Dexter, they’d alert him to my presence. In no time at all, Karlton would appear.

My walk gave me time to think about my life. Not so much a flashing before my eyes type of thing. I wasn’t that nostalgic. But I could recognize the decisions I’d made that had brought me here.

For being a genius, I’d made some dumb fucking decisions. All those studies. The experiments. I’d been blind to their real purpose. And the worst part was I’d been intentionally blind.

A hundred clues had hinted Karlton wasn’t what he’d seemed, that none of our experiments were really academic in nature. Still, I’d looked the other way because the science was so fascinating.

It was funny how little things stuck with a person. When my parents signed over my guardianship and I enrolled in school, it was a stupid question that had determined the direction of my life. One of the other students had asked if a person really only used ten percent of their brain capacity.

Even then, I knew that was bullshit, and I couldn’t help wonder how the kid had gotten into the same school I had. Full of myself, I’d answered for the teacher. “It can’t be true, because then brain activity is limited to one area. And we know brain injuries can result in changes in personality, or disabilities, based on where they occur.”

I shook my head, my thoughts leading me on a tangent.

The brain… What a lightning storm of electrical activity! Neurons, synapses, all of them fired across a span of seconds, keeping the body alive, keeping the person thinking.

But that dumbass question about ten percent stuck with me. Past me, idiot me, kept thinking about clusters of activity. Neurons that controlled movement stayed clustered together, so I’d thought if that was true, then neurons controlling other things could be clustered together.

My work had been a process of elimination. So much was known about the brain already. Vision, hearing, movement: doctors had identified where those sites were.

The end of the world, it was an accident. I hadn’t meant to do it. I’d had a patient, one who claimed she saw the future, and I’d happened upon those psychic areas accidentally.

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