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He puts his hand on… about me" More tension builds and I calculate the distance to the door "Relax," he says "It’s not so… well, so I don’t tell a hell of a lot of people"
Ime?"
"Because I want you to trust ht not want to tell"
"Okay I’"
He takes a deep breath "I have an ability that I haven’t told you about yet" He pauses "I can…" he withdraws his hand away fro it stick up in various directions, giving hiy fro around inside h the star "When you say people, do you mean everyone or just me?"
"Everyone for the most part I can make them tired when I need to, but with you, it works a little bit different I literally drain the energy from you"
"Have you done it to me before?"
"Not that I know of or can reh, from the details you told me about what happened when you tried to kill ht have And now I’ out that you keep doing, ifit to you"
"I don’t think that’s what it is What happened at the beach, at least the last time, felt like it came from my emotions Sometimes it feels like they’re too et angry that he didn’t tell me about his ability earlier, but I’d be a hypocrite since I’ve been keeping soth to finally put the inevitable out there "I need to tell you soaze "About you andyour father told me while I was at the Wastelands" As soon as I mention his father, hatred mixed with vulnerability masks his face "He told me that if you and I," I"If we… if we feel too much for each other… fall in love then the star’s poill eventually fade and die and you and I… you and I will fade away and die right along with it" Wow, that hurt row insideout
He sits there for what feels like an eternity and I swear I actually can see when the lights go off in his eyes "Well, okay then" He gets to his feet
"That’s all you have to say?" I follow after him as he strides out of the room, determined not to look atto face me, eyes cold as the day we first met "What do you want me to say?" he asks "We can’t be near each other, so on’t"
"I never said we couldn’t be near each other Just that we couldn’t feel…" The as so hard to say, so foreign, never felt
"Love," he finishes for me "It’s all the same" With that, he walks away and this ti if he meant that when he was around me, he does feel love
Chapter 6
I let Alex be for the next few hours, figuring it’s probably for the best Let hi in the sa that all those intense, passionate, in-the-heat-of-the- to be no more
"Is this really necessary?" I ask Alex the saarage, the doors closed, theblocked by a shelf so the only light is co on in here is by entering the garage, which is good, since if a neighbor or so saw the scene in front of s and then cracks his knuckles "Maybe" It’s hotter than hell in here,down his chest, his jeans riding low on his hips, givinghisme, ha ha this is what you can’t have any at hi on, but I’ for Nicholas, seeing hi tortured is a bit difficult to watch After Alex dragged him back to the house, he bound his hands with rope and then secured the rope to a beaht enough that Nicholas is forced to stand on his tiptoes or hang fro, his skin is scraped on his side, and blood covers various parts of his body His sandy blond hair is damp with sweat and his shoes fell off somewhere
"Tell me what you know about what happened back on the beach," Alex dehs but it’s laced with pain "Never"
Alex cranes his ar, punches Nicholas in the stoet a hell of a lot worse"
Nicholas grunts, his back curved froain, forcing a light tone "You know, it’s actually starting to tickle"
Alex clocks hi noise, like bones breaking "I could do this all day," Alex tells Nicholas as he brings his arm up and slams his fist into Nicholas’s jaw
This continues for what feels like forever and I watch, wondering if I’ Just when I’ve co, the door opens up and Aislin enters She has a handful of grapes and offersa ratefully take sorape into"Like what? I hate to say it, but this needs to be done"
"Isn’t there another way?" I ask, eating another grape "Like et hirapes "I can’t"
"Why not?"
"Didn’t Alex tell you? I lost ers on the sides of her jeans "I’ there looking through it and suddenly it disappeared I have no idea what could have happened to it other than maybe another powerful witch did a Power of Possession spell and took it Although what the hell they’d ith it is beyond me"
"Maybe it has a spell in there that theirs didn’t"
"Maybe, but I doubt it," she says "It was actually a pretty typical spell book, well at least froirl with blue eyes, wearing gloves and a wicked grin, holding Aislin’s spell book pops intoto hi as she tosses her hair froes appears, it dissolves
"Have you heard anything froe the sides of ht be exhausted and in need of so her arms over her chest "Not yet"
"What about o Said she was in town and was going to keep looking"
"I worry about her being alone, especially since she just got out of The Underworld"