Raven: Xian Warriors 2 by Abel Regine

Author:Abel, Regine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Liena

The girls and I were making amazing progress. Our power turned out to be every shade of badass. We, Asians, had waited so long to finally discover our ability, and it had been well worth it. And Raven… Even though we hadn’t bonded, last night our relationship had moved to a new level, and not just on the physical front. It disturbed me that I should have ‘regressed’ into having a full-on nightmare after mind-melding with my mate. But then, my shrink had warned me that the day I decided to get back in the saddle of psychic communication, probable relapses would be part of the healing process. Raven had been amazing through it all, giving me exactly the kind of support I needed.

I wasn’t in love with him, and yet, I was. There would be no going back to Earth for me. I still had a long way to go to be fully healed from Silas—if I ever was—but with Raven by my side, I would get there, and we would have the same kind of loving future his parents had.

But that cloud in the otherwise perfect sky that had become my life was messing with me big time. As I was shielding and unshielding the women’s vessels and portals, or Wrath’s soul—our guinea pig yet again—dark flashes that I couldn’t quite explain started appearing before my eyes. I recognized them as relics of my terrible past with Silas. I refused to yield to them, casting them away each time they popped up. You’d think someone was flicking the lights off, and, every time they did, the room turned into an ominous place before they flicked the lights back on seconds later.

Steele lay down on a rebirth table, readying for his soul to get ping-ponged between the vessel within Diane—his Soulcatcher—and my shield, before Ayana would start flinging him about while the women walked around the room. The usual nauseous feeling settled in my stomach as I reached for Diane’s psychic void. I still couldn’t touch minds with any male other than Raven, but at least I could do so with other females, as long as I kept my burgeoning panic in check.

Ignoring my unease, I focused on the glowing, tear-shaped cradle beneath the silver sphere shielding Diane’s soul which served as vessel for Steele’s soul. As I began pushing my power around it to form the shield, the top parted like the petals of a flower. I froze in surprise. This had never happened before. As I stared in shock, the ‘petals’ of the vessel turned to an ashen color, their previously sleek and shiny outer shell cracking like excessively dry dirt.

And then a dark, chitin-covered hand shot out of the vessel and caught my consciousness, dragging me inside it. I felt myself screaming, but my consciousness had no form, no vocal chords. Darkness surrounded me as I fell, but instead of the Breeding Swamp I had expected, my surroundings gradually took on a burnished red tinge. The familiar, musty, slightly rotten scent of a liveship struck my nose.

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