Storm Chaser by Lindsey Duga

Author:Lindsey Duga
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2022-09-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Brae

I was going to electrocute Alessi.

In a group text, I had told both her and Kai about Cassen’s threat from that morning. Kai’s response had been entirely unhelpful.

Since this mess had started, he’d been pressuring me to keep Marley locked up until we could figure out how to separate her from the oculus. He was content with having a human battery in our basement. “Just bring her to the farmhouse and tie her to a chair. Boom. Problem solved.” I was tired of having the same argument with him. Sure, make her hate us. That’ll help her cooperate.

Alessi had been nice and sympathetic, which was extremely uncharacteristic. I should’ve known. “I’ll make up some excuse to have her come into work and I’ll watch over her. You should unwind and go to open mic night. That’s Saturday nights, right?”

I hadn’t been aware she knew I went to those. It was a side of myself that I didn’t exactly showcase to my clan. Guitar was an entirely human thing that I was addicted to and seeing as half of my clan were all older than me—having much more vivid memories of Enos and our way of music and celebration—I didn’t think they’d quite get it.

Besides, after the day I’d had, I needed something to center myself. Because what Marley had said had knocked my world out of its orbit.

Coming to Earth, I could barely control the way the planet’s unique makeup of noble gases affected me. It had driven my electrical abilities into overdrive. I’d been a walking lightning rod, ready to explode with power at any given touch. I hadn’t lived here five years without some collateral damage.

But I’d known what she’d really been asking. What was my body count?

That, I wouldn’t…couldn’t answer.

Normally I kept those thoughts and memories locked inside, buried as deep as a planet’s core, under layers and layers of molten rock and regret.

But with just a few words, she’d made them erupt. I’d spent the rest of the day trying to shove them back down. I had to keep those pieces locked inside me so they wouldn’t destroy my life too.

Maybe it should. Maybe it’s what you deserve.

I strummed the first chord, the opening song of the few I had prepared for my set. The regulars loved requesting their favorites, and they tended to be an eclectic mix that I always ended up having to look up on my Spotify later.

As I played, I tried to ignore Marley just a few feet away. Instead, I concentrated on how much I wanted to knock Alessi into next week for allowing her to come here. This had been my haven. My time to set myself straight from this morning, but seeing the source of my frustration and unsettlement had done the exact opposite. Marley had thrown me off balance again.

It was too easy to notice the makeup that brought out the blue in her eyes, or the stage lights shining on her hair that made her blond

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