Beyond Time (Beyond Book 1) by Lee McCormick

Author:Lee McCormick [McCormick, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-01-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Kade

It took longer than I wanted to get myself free from the handcuff — by the time I did, Seth was gone. My mind played his words — and the way his eyes seemed to burn through me — on a loop.

Maybe I like to play with my food, too.

I wondered if Seth realized what he was starting, running away from me. My desire to hunt him down and keep him in a place where he couldn’t run away or get the upper hand again was so strong, I could almost taste it on the back of my tongue. There was no escaping it. I wanted him more than I’d wanted anything in both the lifetimes swirling in my mind.

The knowledge of those depths might have scared me, if I’d ever felt fear in my life. I could feel the intensity of want and need to protect Jayce had for Seth. It was his sole purpose in life, the thing that drove him to exist, to interact, to thrive, and push forward. He loved him.

So how was I so sure what I felt meant more? I couldn’t love him — I’d never known how. But the intensity of what I felt seemed more than a simple emotion, more than a simple label. It was everything.

I could have let the swirl of thoughts chasing around in my head distract me; if I’d been anyone else, they probably would have.

Instead, I let them push me forward — I didn’t want to go back to the facility until I was sure I had no other option. After looking at the apartment, then checking to see if I could find Seth booking another hotel room, I started to feel the edges of frustration and impatience. As soon as I had the chance, I needed to get a home base set up. I wasn’t completely savvy with technology, but I was realizing anything would be better than coming back to Heath Northman and his objectives, which so clearly misaligned with my own.

I’d use them until I was finished, and then I’d burn them to the ground. That was all there was to it. They’d tried to kill Seth.

They wouldn’t go unpunished. They wouldn’t continue to exist. I was more than just threats — I was action. I was vengeance.

For now, though, I still had things I could glean from them. I wanted to get a list of the components of the medication they’d used, and if I could steal an actual sample, it would be even better.

I also needed to make sure they weren’t still tracking Seth.

When I stepped through the doors as though they hadn’t tried to kill me the last time I’d walked out, I could see the apprehension darting across faces like a crowd catching an illness. It made the corners of my mouth lift into a smile. If they thought someone trying to kill me was enough to make me withdraw altogether, they really didn’t have enough information about my past life.

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