Marked (Talented Saga Book 6) by Sophie Davis

Author:Sophie Davis [Davis, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dabber & Baehr
Published: 2015-03-03T03:00:00+00:00

“ENVISION WALLS AROUND your brain,” I coached Willa. “Big brick ones. Or steel, even. But you can work your way up to that.”

We were sitting in the bedroom she and Riley were assigned, which looked much like the one Talia and I were staying in. Willa was lying in the middle of the bed, eyes closed, head nestled in a feather-filled pillow. I’d pulled a chair over to sit close to her. Riley, who’d refused to leave his girlfriend alone with me, was leaning against the wall, arms crossed over his chest. Honora was silently perched on the window seat, shredding a tissue into scraps. She’d barely spoken on the flight here, at dinner, or since the four of us had been alone.

From her thoughts, I knew she was having nearly as hard a time as Willa with all of this. Honora felt horrible for not protecting Kenly. She worried for their friend, James, who was like a brother to Honora. She thought that being captured by the Poachers, his own family, for a second time was going to be too much for James. That he might break.

“I can’t,” Willa groaned. “It’s just not working.”

Drawn out of Honora’s head and into Willa’s, I decided to try a different tactic. Willa had spent so much time connecting with Kenly in the past twelve hours, and Kenly’s emotions were so strong, that the bond was proving impossible to break.

“Relax, Willa,” I ordered, voice firm and authoritative. “Focus on me. Picture stones. Large, heavy, unyielding stones. Good. That’s exactly right. Now stack them. One by one. Concentrate on each new stone, how it expands the wall. Each stone strengthens the wall. Just one bit at a time, you’re doing great.”

“What are you doing to her?” Riley hissed, suspicion lacing his words.

“She can’t do it on her own. I can help her,” I murmured, not wanting to interrupt Willa’s concentration.

“By manipulating her?” Riley demanded.

“Yes,” I replied shortly. “Now shut up or leave. You’re going to ruin it for her.”

“It’s okay, Ri,” Willa slurred. “Let him. I’m just making a wall.”

Riley opened his mouth to continue protesting, but I didn’t give him a chance. He was standing beneath a recessed light in the ceiling, so I solved the problem quickly. When the bulb suddenly sent faint sparks raining down on him, before going out completely, Riley shut his mouth abruptly. See no evil, hear no evil. There was still a small lamp lit near Honora, and I could see her surprised expression in the soft light.

With blessed silence from the peanut gallery, I slowly helped Willa erect the mental barriers necessary to block Kenly’s emotions. I pointedly ignored Riley’s mental streams about how unethical it was for a UNITED agent to be brainwashing someone. Couldn’t the guy see that his girlfriend was in agony? There had only been brief respites for her, where the connection would abruptly cease entirely. But those moments only tormented Willa even more, because she knew that it meant Kenly was sedated.

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