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“Aries!” Nix screamed at the screen.
Aries was lifted off his feet as he soared back. He crashed through the reinforced glass around the rink. The glass shattered and Aries disappeared from sight.
“No!” Nix bolted from the bed. Or he tried. Without the use of his arms, Nix crashed onto the carpet. He wiggled as he tried to see the television better. Not that it mattered. The game had gone to commercial.
“Nix! Stop. Let me get you.” Evan was standing next to him.
“Aries! Aries!” Nix sobbed.
“I got you. Stop, boy.” Evan knelt before flicking out his claws. He cut the ropes away from Nix’s wrist.
As soon as the bright blue rope fell to the carpet, Nix tried to push off.
His arms tingled and gave out.
That meant he needed to crawl. Nix didn’t care. All he knew was that he needed to get to his little brother.
“Stop! Nix! It’s going to be okay.” Evan lifted Nix onto his feet.
He headed straight for the door.
Evan wrapped his arms around Nix, pulling him close.
“Let me go!” Nix shouted. “I need to get to Aries.”
“You can’t,” Evan said. “Nix, you can’t.”
“Let me go!”
Evan’s mouth slammed down on his.
All of Nix’s senses went haywire until all he could do was cling to Evan. By the time that Evan pulled back, Nix had stopped crying. He could think more clearly.
“There you are,” Evan said, gazing down at him. “Welcome back.”
Nix gripped Evan’s shirt. “My brother.”
“We’ll find out,” Evan told him. “Everything is going to be okay.”
“The hit. It was so hard. Aries shouldn’t have been able to go through the glass.” It had looked horrible. Aries was just a little guy.
“If I’ve learned anything about you and your brother, it’s that you’re tough.”
Nix nodded. The television changed from the commercials back to the game. Nix hurried closer so he could hear just as banging came on their door.
“I’ll get that,” Evan said.
Nix didn’t care. Since it wasn’t going to be Aries that meant Nix didn’t care about anything.
The commentators were talking about the hit. Replaying it even. Nix hated that he couldn’t tear his gaze from the screen.
There were murmurs behind him.
They weren’t saying anything important! Nix shuffled closer to the TV as if he could make them give a status on his brother.
“Hey.”
Glancing to the side, he frowned at Marlin. “What?”
