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Mind-blowing. Zephyr needed to meet them all, immediately.
You’re a fully realized telepath,Aiden said, like he’d suddenly realized it.Right?That’s the big secret.
One of them.Even in my mind, it was like I was whispering my reply.
What are you, Skye?Aiden asked, his eyes pleading.I need to know. I know we made our deal, but…I need to know, now. Please.
My stomach dropped.
I hadn’t actually thought the word in reference to myself in years. I’d separated myself from my own affinity, making up excuses and explanations for why I acted the way I did instead of just accepting what it was. I’d planned to live my entire life this way, never saying the words out loud, never fully trusting anyone to know.
That changed today.
“I’m a telekinetic,” I said out loud.
The world came back to us. The Aiden-and-Skye bubbled we’d been in popped suddenly, and I became aware of the four other people in the room. My two friends fell silent. Dani bit her lip. Rafe was so still he could have been a statue.
Aiden…Aiden looked like he’d frozen in place. His lips were parted in shock, his eyes wide.
“I’m a fully realized tele,” I said, my voice quivering. “I’m a telekinetic, and a telepath. And–”
I bristled, suddenly, my hair standing on end. My affinity flared to life in my hands as I threw them out around Aiden’s back, just as an earth-shattering boom threw us all into the air.
Chapter 52
Aiden
“Brandt,wake the hell up, I swear to God if something happened to you–”
I groaned as someone slapped at my cheek. I lifted my head slightly, ignoring the pounding headache splitting my skull. My arms were wrapped tightly around…
Skye?!
“Fuck,” I said when she didn’t reply.
“Fuck is right.” Rafe was kneeling above me. He roughly took my chin in his hand, tossing my head back and forth to check my face for injuries. Either that or he was a dick who wanted to aggravate my headache. Hard to tell.
He gentled his touch slightly when I gritted my teeth, then he dropped my chin, and we both looked down at Skye, who was trembling but safely bundled in my arms, but…not…touching the ground. I wasn’t touching the ground either. We were…levitating slightly.
“What the fuck,” I whispered, looking around the room.
It was trashed. The beds were overturned, the bookshelf was on the ground. Both desks were in pieces. The bathroom mirror had shattered. A gaping hole in the wall opened up to the air outside, where the sounds of screams and shouts broke the serene night air.
Willow and Mia were together by the door, where the wall looked like it’d just crumbled out of nowhere. Dani was with them, checking a scrape on Willow’s temple while Willow watched her with wide eyes.
“What happened?” I asked, rubbing a hand over my head.
“There was an explosion of some kind,” Rafe said. “The shadows reacted to Skye. She’s the reason we’re alive.”
Right. Because Skye was telekinetic. Her affinity behaved differently than ours. That, and she was perfect. Of course she’d just saved me twice in one day. Remembering how I’d been basically dying just a few hours ago had me shivering. I never wanted to feel that sensation ever again.
Another loud boom rocked the building. I jolted, wrapping my arms back around Skye and holding her tight to me, preparing for some kind of debris to cover us.
But nothing like that happened. Shadows held some rubble above Willow, Mia, and Dani, while Skye and I remained completely unscathed.
“Skye?” I said softly, nudging her cheek. “Baby, you awake?”
Skye was shaking almost violently, I realized as the quaking building stilled.
