Rain of Fire (Star Crossed Academy Book 6) by Wendy Knight

Author:Wendy Knight [Knight, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Six Inch Heel Press
Published: 2019-08-19T05:00:00+00:00

GALVAN waited at the entrance to the city, pacing anxiously. Wondering if Aquis had heard.

She had to have heard.

Everyone had heard.

Galvan himself couldn’t believe it.

She appeared through the shadows like an angel, her hair tumbling around her shoulders and down her back in bright waves. Her black rimmed glasses were pushed up on her head and she was scrubbing at her eyes.

Tears.

She was scrubbing tears from her cheeks.

She’d heard.

“Hey,” he said as soon as she was within hearing distance.

She smiled, but it wavered, her lips trembling. “Hey.”

“Flint’s news reached you, huh?”

Aquis pinched the bridge of her nose, closing her eyes tight but still a tear escaped. “Yeah. He’s a Firestarter. How could we have missed it? He’s so powerful. I mean—even Blaise could barely keep up with him. And we knew what she was already.”

Flint had, in the past week, nearly blown up half the barracks, watched his mother get arrested, and then disappeared, having volunteered for every mission they had open.

Because he’d found out he was a Firestarter. Which could only be caused by a parent trying to kill an infant within the first two months of life. If the child survived, they took the parents’ powers within themselves, leaving the parent bereft.

And themselves the only one who could call fire from within instead of needing an outside source.

It was a powerful, powerful ability. But no one wanted to find out their mother had tried to kill them as a baby.

Galvan hadn’t heard what had caused Flint to blow up like he had though.

“He’s going to be okay, right?” Aquis whispered. “I’ve tried to call him. And email. And any other means necessary. He isn’t answering.”

“Last I checked, he’d disconnected his personal phone. He’s probably just using comms now.” Galvan sank onto a nearby bench, hoping she’d sit next to him.

Praying she wouldn’t.

She did, although she kept her distance. “So now what? How do we find him?”

Galvan watched her out of the corner of his eye. She was heart-wrenchingly beautiful, even with swollen, red eyes. He would have sold his soul to be able to reach out and brush the tears from her cheeks.

But he couldn’t do that, for a myriad of reasons, so he answered her instead. “Flint won’t be found if he doesn’t want to be found. He’ll come to us when he’s ready.”

Her lips trembled again, and she pressed her fingers against them. “What if he doesn’t come back, Galvan?”

Galvan leaned back against the bench, careful to keep distance between them. “Then we figure out who we are without him, I guess.”

She hesitated, closing her eyes. “Who are we without him?”

Galvan finally looked at her, really looked at her. She was devastated and he didn’t want to hurt her again. Not like he had before. He never wanted to see that kind of pain in her eyes and know he was the cause.

“We’re friends. Always.”

She nodded, as if the answer satisfied her even though it didn’t satisfy him. He didn’t want to be her friend. He wanted so much more.

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