Lightning Strikes: A Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance (The Storm Book 1) by Ripley Proserpina & Rebecca Royce

Author:Ripley Proserpina & Rebecca Royce [Proserpina, Ripley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

22

Whitney

Dante was closest to me, so it was him I dragged toward me. It all came together. Warmth. Healthy skin. Brandon’s heart. Eating. They were alive.

“Sort of,” Carson interjected. “When I healed you, however I did that, it slowed my heartbeat until I could heal. So I’m alive, but different.” Dante looked at him sharply and Carson blushed. Blushing! Another sign of life! “That’s just what I assumed. I could be wrong.”

Alive. Suddenly, everything was better and a thousand times scarier. If my father got ahold of them, I could lose them forever. Them?

“You have peanut butter stuck to your chin,” Nick said, and leaning over, wiped it off with his finger and stuck his finger in his mouth.

I stared at him, surprised. In between calling me evil, he was taking care of me. Warmth flooded my face as I stared at him. He saw me watching and winked.

I quickly looked away and met Brandon’s gaze. He’d seen the entire exchange, but I couldn’t read how he felt about it. I wasn’t sure how I felt about it.

As I sat there, exhausted and elated, confusion dominated my thoughts. So much had change in a couple days. For so long, Brandon had been my world. He was my only friend and the person I pinned my hopes and dreams on.

Then I met these guys, and from the very beginning, I’d felt a connection to them. Crap. Was Nick right? Was I just like my brother? Would that explain the growing responsibility and possessiveness I felt toward them?

Tiredness hit me at the same time I heard the pounding of heavy rain on the roof of the makeshift library. Brandon rose, walked over, and shut the window. He always thought of things like that. Left to my own devices, I’d get soaking wet. I sighed. What was I doing? I’d found Brandon again. That should be enough.

“Unlike Dante’s lab, the Controlled notice this place. We don’t know why they can’t get inside Dante’s workshop, but they have made it in here. As far as I know, they haven’t been seen today, but I just wanted to put that out there. As great a place as this is to hang out, we should probably move Whit.” Carson rocked back on his feet. “I’d feel better if she was there.”

I rose slowly. “I guess we’re running through the rain.”

Isaiah grabbed my hand so abruptly I didn’t see it coming. Before I knew what happened, we were running together.

“Come on,” he shouted over his shoulder. “Neither of us is going to melt.”

I squealed. It was a funny sound to make as giant drops of summer rain pounded on my head. Lightning struck in the sky and a second later thunder boomed. Cold rain hit my skin where it was exposed, and even though it should be scary, I couldn’t help laughing. Isaiah looked over his shoulder, grinning at me.

It was such a strange moment. Fun, wet, ridiculous… and even though everything was awful, I was somehow the happiest I’d ever been.

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