Total pages in book: 126
Estimated words: 123779 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 619(@200wpm)___ 495(@250wpm)___ 413(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 123779 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 619(@200wpm)___ 495(@250wpm)___ 413(@300wpm)
Chapter 25
Alchera
The first thing I hear is the panic in Raighne’s voice.
“I fear for her, Brenna. She called to me.” Raighne holds me tightly to him. Through the haze, I can hear his heart beating fast in his chest. “She stopped breathing at one point. Something horrific must be happening in her vision.”
My arms and legs are wrapped tightly around him as if he’s the pole I was clinging to.
I’m bombarded by flashes of the vision I had. The terrible earthquakes and the chaos that followed. All those people. All the suffering and death.
My body starts to shudder from shock and tears roll down my cheeks. My heart is heavy with despair, and I’m swamped with a rollercoaster of emotions.
I choke on the cries that finally make their way out of me.
“Alchera?” Raighne grabs my tear-streaked face and holds it up to his.
The moment our eyes lock, I feel him explode inside of me, his warmth rushing through my mind.
My fingers curl into his shirt as his eyes darken with sadness, and he presses me back against his chest while he eases the aftermath of horror from my mind.
“Shhh, all will be well. You’re safe. I’m here,” he murmurs softly while focusing on taking the devastating emotions from me. “I’m so sorry you had to experience that.”
My body slumps against his, and I suck in desperate breaths of air while the horror slowly lessens in my mind.
“It was dreadful,” I whimper. “They’re all going to die. Millions. I could feel their terror and how their hearts stopped beating.”
“I wish you didn’t have to see it,” he says, his love finally breaking through the darkness in my mind.
I let out a relieved sigh. All I want to do is to hide in his arms from the hell that’s about to break loose on this planet.
“We’re here,” Finian says, just as the plane shudders when it touches down on the runway.
“Here?” I ask as I pull away from Raighne.
“Ireland,” Brenna reminds me.
There are so many images flashing through my mind, most of them pictures of disaster and pain. I remember getting Jason, and then…
When I’m finally able to focus on the present, I’m filled with an urgent need to get to my chosen ones.
“Sarah. Doug,” I say, desperation coating my words. “We have to get to them as soon as possible.”
Raighne walks to the door and helps me out of the plane as Jason says, “We landed without permission, so we’re going to have to make a run for it.”
Like a bunch of criminals, we run across the tarmac and past a hanger. The place seems to be deserted, and when we reach a road, we stop to catch our breaths.
“What now?” Jason asks.
I glance at him. “Your phone. Can you get us a cab?”
“Good thinking,” he mutters.
He signs into an app, and after he arranges for a car to pick us up, I find a spot on the grass at the side of the road where I can sit down.
“How are you feeling?” Brenna asks as she crouches beside me.
“Better. Raighne took most of the emotions.”
“What?” she gasps, her eyes darting between Raighne and me. “He can take your emotions?”
“It’s a talent I gained last night,” Raighne explains.
“I’ve never heard of that happening before,” Finian says, sounding surprised.
“Yeah, I’m never going to get used to the things you people talk about,” Jason mutters. He checks his phone. “Our ride will be here in ten minutes.”
Suddenly, the ground starts to tremble beneath us, and I jump to my feet, but it stops as quickly as it started.
“God,” I groan. “Thana said we have ten days. That means she’ll hold off on destroying everything until we get the chosen ones off Earth. Right?”
Brenna shakes her head. “No, it means we have ten days before the Earth is obliterated.” She places her hand on my shoulder. “You have to get the chosen ones while the disasters are happening.”
“Disasters?” Jason asks.
“Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and everything else that classifies as a disaster,” Brenna mutters. “That’s why we have to hurry.”
Jesus.
As panic tightens my muscles, Raighne takes hold of my hand, immediately calming me again.
An SUV comes down the road, and when it stops, we pile into it. I have to sit on Raighne’s lap to make space for Brenna and Finian in the back while Jason takes the passenger side.
“We’re going to need a bigger car for all the other chosen ones,” I tell Raighne mentally so I don’t freak out the cab driver.
“I don’t think we’ll be able to use human transport for much longer. We’ll have to risk waterfalls.”
My eyes lock with his. “What if I have a vision while shifting through a waterfall?”
“I’ll keep hold of you and stop you from going somewhere you’re not meant to go.”
“You can do that?”
“Together, we can do anything.”