Crimson Dahlia (Book #3 of the Svatura Series) by Owen Abigail

Author:Owen, Abigail [Owen, Abigail]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-08-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

“Morning, sunshine,” Lila grinned as Ramsey shuffled into the kitchen.

“How long have you been up?” he asked in a scratchy voice as he reached for the coffee pot.

“A while.”

Ramsey just grunted.

She hadn’t slept well all night actually. Not that she’d tell him that. Every sound that came from his room had her wide awake. She’d given up around three a.m. and had come downstairs to read a novel.

“I’ve got the new Ultrabook Selene gave us up and running with all the extra security stuff working. We should be good to go for our video conference this morning.”

Ramsey buried his face in his coffee cup and just nodded.

Lila raised an eyebrow. She was usually the grump in the morning. Ramsey was usually his version of cheerful.

“You okay?” she asked, but only received a shrug as a reply. She’d expected nothing less.

Before long it was time for their call.

“Can you see us?” Lila asked, as she waved her hand back and forth in front of the camera.

“Yup. We’ve got you,” Selene’s voice came across loud and clear. On the screen, the entire family appeared in what looked like a conference room.

Lila spotted her sister. “How are you feelin’, Delia?”

Adelaide smiled. “Much better now. Griffin and Ellie gave me a crash course in controlling telepathy so that I only hear things when I want to. It still comes and goes. Apparently Griffin had months of those voices in his head before he figured it out.”

Griffin shrugged sheepishly.

“So you have a theory about why Adelaide now has telepathy?” Ellie asked, getting straight to the point.

“Oh! Yeah… I have a couple of things to run by you guys actually. For that one… you remember when we all helped Selene heal that scarred part inside her and all of our colors got tangled up?”

“Wait, what?” Griffin asked.

Selene took his hand. “Because of all those years of suppression under Gideon, Lila could see what was sort of like a scar on my soul. The four of us worked together to fix it, but when we did, all of our powers sort of… tangled up. You know how Ellie and I see colors for people’s powers? I see it when I’m trying to turn off their powers, and she sees it when she’s taking over their power?”

“Yeah.”

“Well, all of our colors twisted up inside me.”

“We got all that unraveled though,” Ellie said.

Lila stood and paced a bit. “But what if we each ended up with a little something from the others inside us? It would explain my sudden power over dreams like Selene. And Adelaide’s sudden telepathy, like Ellie. Only I guess she doesn’t have to tap into Griffin for it. Not sure how that works.”

Everyone was quiet for a few moments, lost in thought.

“Griffin, have you felt Adelaide drawing on your telepathy?” Hugh asked.

Griffin shook his head.

Dexter pushed his face in front of the camera. “What made you think of this?”

“I think the reason Selene was able to pull me out of my stasis was because I got her dream control.

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