Page 123 of Fangs
“Ok, we don’t know what’s happening,” he said quickly, his blue eyes full of regret. “Clarity’s been… seeing things. And a lot of those things seem to come true. Like… like she’s seein’ the future.”
“And you didn’t tell me?” I couldn’t let this go.
“Emmy,” he said quietly, his face uncharacteristically serious, “you were barely able to get out of bed.”
“So?” I demanded. Did they think I was too weak? That I wouldn’t be able to heal Clarity? How many more seriously ill people did they turn away because I was so pathetic?—
“You needed time, and we weren’t even sure you’d be able to heal her.”
“I asked them not to, Bones,” Clarity choked out. “It’s not their fault.”
“I don’t need you to screen my patients, Sam,” I said through my teeth. “I’mthe only one who would know for sure?—”
“You were a fuckingghost,” Sam interrupted me. “You weren’t sleepin’, you barely ate, you didn’t say a word to anybody, you?—”
“What if she’ddied?”My voice shook with the force of holding back all the emotion in my throat.
“I knew I wasn’t gonna die,” Clarity tried to interject.
“That is bullshit,” I snapped. “You can’t?—”
“Bones, please don’t be mad,” Jax said in a low voice, and when I glanced at him, the pleading look in his eyes made me feel worse.
“Alright, hold up.” Wolf startled all of us. He pushed himself off the wall and beckoned at me. “Em, come outside a minute.”
I debated refusing, but Clarity was sobbing again, and the other three were either glaring or looking close to tears. I let out a sharp sigh and got to my feet, following him down the ladder. Lee came after me, walking outside with the two of us.
Wolf halted under the apple tree, hands on his hips as he surveyed the hold. I stopped an arm’s distance from him, but of course, Lee halted directly beside me, throwing his arm over my shoulders. I shoved him away and stepped out from under his arm, glaring, but he just grinned and stuffed his hands in his pockets. Gods, and I thoughtTreyhad no concept of personal space.
“Seems like a lot is goin’ on here,” Wolf said, turning to study me.
I didn’t answer.
“If that girl is seein’ the future, I assume that’s a new development?” he asked.
I nodded, but then a surge of panic went through me as I remembered that moment in Madame’s old house when Mac heard what Wolfwasn’tsaying aloud.
“Have you ever met anyone else with powers?”
I didn’t answer.
“Does anyone else here have powers?”
I knew what he was fishing for, and he knew I knew, but I pressed my lips tightly together.
“Ember,” he sounded irritated, “I’m tryin’ to understand what’s happenin’ here so I canhelpyou.”
“Why?”
His eyebrows raised. “Why what?”
“Why bother? Aren’t you still plannin’ on dragging me back to Carth?” I tried to keep my voice even, but it shook.
He studied me silently, and I couldn’t read his expression. “I’m reservin’ that decision for the end of the two months.”
“And I’m just supposed to fuckin’ wait andtrustyou?” I demanded.
“Yes.”
