Gifted Connections 4

“Screw you,” I said through gritted teeth. I drew strength from the guys and could feel the power course through me. The colors that swirled around me were so vivid and beautiful. “You can’t breathe,” I glared at him silently. “Your airways are closing. You feel the air leaving your lungs.” I watched in satisfaction as he collapsed on his knees, clutching his throat. He was desperately grasping the air towards me.

I barely noticed the flash of light in the room to my right.

“Let him go, Blake,” I heard a furious feminine voice state as she stepped forward.

My eyes widened slightly as I recognized Brigette, my half-sister, coming out of the room where the bright flash had been seconds ago. She looked rough with no makeup, her hair was limp and hung in strands around her now very plump face. Her belly protruded out quite a bit in her pure white jumpsuit.

Further movement behind her caught my attention. I turned my head and saw the twins, Frankenstein

, Alison, and a few people I knew we had captured before. It took me a few seconds to notice Ella and Alex in the back of the group.

I gasped in shock, feeling my concentration begin to slip.

“Finish him, and we’ll get the kids,” Jace reassured me.

I wavered for a moment. Shocked that he wanted me to end him after telling me not to kill before. Afraid that I wouldn’t be able to get to the children in time, I looked over at Alex and Ella and was so proud to see how well they were taking it. They were still dressed in their swimsuits, but they were stoically holding hands. I nodded and turned my focus back on Horatio. He was now laying on the ground, gasping.

“Let him go, Blake!” Brigette insisted before I heard ear-piercing cries.

Frankenstein had stepped forward, and he had a morbidly sweet smile on his face. Alex and Ella were on the ground their arms were at an awkward angle behind them.

Stop! I screamed silently at him.

He paused for a second before he shook his head and turned to looked at me. “Let him go, Blake, and I will let the kids live.”

“Let the kids go,” I insisted as I slowly released some of the pressure I had on Horatio. “And he will live.”

“Come get the children and we will make a trade,” Frankenstein maintained. The children were carried forward into the hallway, steps behind where Horatio was still trying to gasp for air.

“Fuck no!” Remy growled.

I barely registered his language as he took a menacing step forward clenching his fist.

“Blake!” I heard Ella wail as it looked like she was being picked up in the air and then slammed back down.

I ran forward without hesitation, barely hearing Jace yell for me to stop. I went to reach for Ella, and my hands met thin air. I scarcely looked up in confusion before I noticed another flash of light behind Frankenstein and Bridgette. Rough hands shoved me hard towards the bright light before I registered that it was all an illusion, and I had fallen for it.

I fell hard on my tailbone and vaguely registered my new surroundings. I now stood in what appeared to be a clinic. There were two holes about ten feet to my right and ten feet to my left. Both were about four-feet above the ground. To my left, I could see Jace, Remy, Drake, Noah, Lincoln, Troy, and Jaxson running towards the hole. To my right Gavin. Jemmy, Sierra, and Terrance..

They looked like they were at least twenty feet away, although I knew I had only been shoved about a quarter of the way. I ran back towards the wormhole just as Bridgette, Alison, Horatio, Frankenstein, and few of the others were climbing through it.

“Get the twins,” Horatio rasped through a raw throat.

I tried to leap towards the opening just as Gavin jumped towards me. I was roughly pushed back down by one of Horatio’s goons.

Horatio turned and glared at me before grinning coldly at me. “And take care as many as them as you can.”

“No!” I screamed just as I saw the wormhole begin to close but not before I saw a spark erupt from one of the goons’ hands to shoot at Gavin straight in the chest. He slumped forward, his eyes going blank as the hole closed completely.

Chapter 30

I barely remembered what happened next. I remembered someone advancing towards me, and I felt a sharp prick in my neck before darkness took over. I knew I drifted in and out of consciousness for several days, maybe even weeks.

I tried to measure time by the sun and moon coming up through my window. I felt like I was being kept in a constant drugged state. My head, arms, and limbs felt heavy, like they didn’t belong to me.

I was kept in a sterile white room. Everything about the place screamed hospital or clinic. People would come and extract blood from me or check on the many machines I was now hooked up to. When they came to visit, I found out the hard way that I couldn’t use my gifts. Painful electric jolts coursed through my body every time I tried. Sometimes, I was even woken from a dead sleep and zapped painfully.

I knew my people were trying to reach out to me, too, but there was no way for me to tell them to stop. They were only causing me more significant pain.