Chris (Second Wave Book 4) by Mikayla Lane

Author:Mikayla Lane [Lane, Mikayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Quinn woke to a light humming sound and kept her eyes closed as she did a quick self-assessment to determine if the headache was gone and if she was still alive.

“It’s OK now. You can wake up,” Ainsley whispered.

Quinn opened her eyes and saw that it was just getting light outside, and she was laying in one of the twin beds she’d seen the day before.

“What did you do to me?” Quinn accused as she sat up and swung her legs over the side of the bed and faced Ainsley, who was sitting in the matching bed.

Ainsley shook her head sadly.

“I told you that I would never hurt you. We didn’t do anything to you, we only made sure everything went OK so you and Christopher could go back to Chris,” she whispered.

Quinn ran her hands through her hair as her thoughts ran riotously through her head, and she tried to piece together what had happened the previous night.

“What are you talking about?” Quinn asked in confusion.

She couldn’t remember anything after the blinding headache had struck.

“If you listen, you can hear it now. There’s nothing wrong with yours or Christopher’s, so we’ll make sure Chris finds you,” Ainsley said before she stood and headed out of the door.

Quinn could hear her inner voice screaming in her mind to go to the girl, and she hurried after her.

“Ainsley! Stop!”

Quinn sighed when the girl didn’t slow her stride, and she had to follow Ainsley into the kitchen to get her attention. Fiona turned and smiled from the sink.

“You’re up! I’m so glad everything went so well for you. Did you try it yet?” Fiona asked.

Quinn turned to Ainsley who refused to look at her and tried to remember what the girl had said.

“Uh, no. Ainsley was trying to explain it to me when I kind of freaked out on her. I’m sorry, Ainsley. Can you please explain it again?” Quinn asked, not understanding why she was so driven to comfort the girl.

She’d thought about it at least a dozen times and still couldn’t begin to understand why she still trusted Ainsley and couldn’t stop caring about the kid.

Ainsley slowly turned towards Quinn, but kept her eyes downcast when she spoke.

“It’s your gift from Christopher and his beast. You’re not a hybrid and can’t have abilities like we do, but the boy children—and only the boy children—can penetrate the mother’s brain with certain enzymes. Among those enzymes is a single cell from the beast that imbeds itself in your brain and grows. As it grows, it slowly evolves your brain so that it can make itself a home.”

Quinn looked a little horrified and sat heavily in a chair at the table as she tried hard to figure out if something was now eating her brain.

Oh God, it explains the headache. I’m dying, Quinn thought in horror.

“Don’t be scared,” Ainsley said as she reached out a hand to Quinn and smiled shyly when Quinn took it. “Last night, that gift matured, and we helped you bond with it so no one will ever try to kill it, or you.

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