Last One Standing (The Chronicles of Kerrigan, #11) by W.J. May

Author:W.J. May [W.J. May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Shadow Publishing
Published: 2020-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

A MERE WEEK AGO, IT was likely there was virtually no one on the planet that either Rae or Gabriel couldn’t best. Not a single task they couldn’t achieve. Between his natural gifts and the fact that Rae had been vested with enough supernatural powers to move the sun, there was a limitless horizon in terms of things they could and couldn’t do.

Today...it was an entirely different story.

“What do you mean, you can’t get out the window?” Rae hissed between her teeth. “This was your freaking idea!”

The sun had fallen and she was standing in the outer courtyard, casting nervous looks around and blinking invisible whenever someone happened to walk by. Gabriel was still inside the ICU—staring up at the high window with a look of helpless determination. Despite its impossible angle, he could have leapt through it in his sleep...had he not recently had open heart surgery.

“I’m sorry,” he growled back, trying to judge the best way to go about it, “not all of us can simply levitate out like you. Or have a choice of abilities—even when some of us are hybrids. I did just get shot , you remember.”

“ You think levitation’s easy ?” Rae fired back, disappearing into thin air as a patrol rounded the farthest corner on its way to the arsenal. She sent him a mental message so the guard wouldn’t hear her. “You should try it sometime. There are a lot of components involved.”

“I’ll bet,” Gabriel murmured, but she got the feeling he wasn’t really listening.

“First you have to visualize the different planes around you. Then you have to somehow solidify them in your mind’s eye just to take a step—”

“No, this isn’t going to work.”

There was a sound like a dying whale as a hole opened in the side of the wall—a hole just big enough for Gabriel to walk through to freedom. It closed the second he was through, and he looked down at her with a cheerful smirk.

“I’m sorry. You were saying something about the difficulty of levitation?”

She rolled her eyes and grabbed his hand, melting them both out of sight as the same patrol doubled back to see what all the noise was about. “Show-off...”

He squeezed her fingers, and together the two of them set off across the lawn.

Rae didn’t think she’d ever get used to it—the surreal reality of simply not being seen. Her hair swept backwards from the wind of the people rushing past, and yet no one offered either her or Gabriel a second look.

He seemed just as delighted as she was. In fact, perhaps a bit too pleased. Rae didn’t like the way he was eyeing some of the guards. Before he could trip one of them or start re-enacting scenes from Casper, the not-so-friendly ghost, she steered him sharply towards the gate of the compound.

“What now?” she whispered close to his ear, in case any of the Knights were gifted with super-human hearing. “I’m assuming you have some sort of plan to get us out of here?”

“Now is probably when we should kiss,” he said practically.

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