Wicked Revenge by Gladden DelSheree

Author:Gladden, DelSheree
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy, adventure, paranormal romance, fantasy, paranormal, young adult, science fiction, teen, hunger, wicked
Publisher: DelSheree Gladden

Chapter Eighteen: The Others

(Vanessa)

My body feels stiff as my brain attempts to wake up. I squeeze my eyes shut and tell my brain to bite me. There are thoughts hovering at the edges of my consciousness I don’t have to be fully awake to know aren’t going to be good for me to think about. That’s where they need to stay.

Ketchup’s arm tightens around my middle, as if he can sense my half-awake turmoil and instinctually tries to distract me from it. I’m happy to let him. Bits and pieces of last night’s events swim in my mind, though. No matter how hard I try to banish them, they’re relentless in poking at me. Every time I physically flinch from their attack, Ketchup pulls me closer. Normally that’s enough. Not today.

Sucking noises startle me and my thoughts. For a few precious seconds, my head is clear. Not sure where the noise is coming from, I force one eye open and search the unfamiliar room, from my position on the floor, until I spot Joshua grinning at me. Even with his face squashed against the mesh sides of his playpen, he’s managed to get his fingers in his mouth and is slobbering all over the place.

“Ba,” he whispers.

Smiling back at him, I can’t bring myself to shut him out. I vaguely remember playing with him last night. He asks for the game every time I see him. I hadn’t even meant to do it the first time. Emily’s second day at the school, she got pulled away and asked me to watch Joshua for a few minutes. As soon as he was in my arms, my power reached out for him and Joshua lit up with joy.

My work with Cynthia and Cat has improve my ability to move my power on command tremendously. That was all I intended to do when I started pushing my power through him. He loved it, so I kept going. He even seemed to sense or see it, and would follow its path with his hands, babbling and squealing the entire time. Only when I realized I’d poured too much into him and tried to pull back, did my power resist. I couldn’t take it back into myself, yet it seemed happy to escape his body as easily as it escaped mine.

So…I gathered the power to his center, his favorite place to hold it, and sent it bursting outward. He fell over, laughing so hard, I was afraid he couldn’t breathe properly. As soon as he recovered, he started begging, “Ba! Ba! Ba!” He’s too adorable to refuse, so we played the game three more times before Emily came back.

Even though Joshua seems to understand others are sleeping and he should be quiet, he’s just as insistent now as he was the first time. “Ba. Ba. Ba,” he pleads. No one else seems disturbed by his noise. Oscar and Emily are buried beneath a blanket, while Ketchup’s breathing tells me he won’t wake for a while yet.

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