Free Contained (Evolution Series Book 5) by Kelly Carrero Page A

image of where we were heading.
    Anna phased out without her usual optimistic smile. She was acting on instinct alone but I knew that as soon as Anna had time to breath, she was going to break down. Anna loved the castle. She’d raised her family there and now Nathan had taken that away from her, too.
    Aiden put his hand on my arm. “Come on.”
    Shaking my thoughts away, I got back to packing my necessities as well as some for Chelsea.
    Once we were ready, Aiden drew me into his arms with one hand while carrying his bag in the other and transported us to the not so little log house by the lake. Looking around I realised we were in a bedroom. There was a bed against the wall on the right and a closet and bathroom to the left and a large window overlooking the lake.
    Downstairs was already buzzing with activity and way too many overactive thoughts. Being in such close proximity to them was getting a little daunting and I wasn’t sure how long I’d be able to handle constantly hearing everyone’s thoughts. Living at the castle had been different, the bedrooms were so far apart that even with my extra abilities, it made it easier to ignore.
    Aiden took my bag from me, and set it down inside the closet. “You okay?”
    Trying to dull the noise in my head, I nodded. “Just a little…”
    “Freaked?” Aiden finished.
    I smiled nervously. “Freaked.”
    Wishing I could once again feel Aiden’s calming abilities, I wrapped my arms around his waist and rested my cheek against his chest. I sighed when they never came. Still, being in his embrace comforted me in a way that no other person could, which brought a smile to my face.
    Pulling back, I said, “At least we have each other, and that’s all that counts.” The moment I finished my sentence, I was thrown into another vision. I was sitting on the bed in a room I’d never seen before and Aiden was at the door with his bag in his hand. He looked back, smiled but didn’t say anything. But that was okay. It was the smile that sent chills down my spine. His smile was forced and the fondness he always looked at me with was absent. It was the same way he looked at Georgia.
    The vision faded away and I stood there in a daze. It wasn’t until Aiden brought his lips down over mine that I snapped out of it.
    It took a second to realise he hadn’t kissed me out of love, he was trying to bring me out of my state and thought a kiss was better than a slap.
    “What happened there?”
    Needing a distraction, I stepped back and headed to the closet to unpack. “Nothing. I was just thinking about what’s going to happen.”
    Aiden followed me. “That’s a lie and we both know it.”
    I fumbled with the zipper. Such a simple task as zipping it from one side to the other proved to be impossible. I was too focused on what I’d seen to do such a mundane task as open my damned suitcase.
    “Jade.” He grabbed my shoulders and spun me around. “Tell me.”
    What he imagined I’d seen was terrible, but nothing I couldn’t handle. With Aiden by my side, I knew we could take on the world. But if he was leaving me, which I was sure he was doing in the vision, then what hope did I have? I was a complete mess the last time we split up and I didn’t have it in me to do it again—especially with the world closing in on us.
    “Jade,” he pleaded again.
    Sighing, I sent him a replay of the vision. I expected him to at least have the same reaction he’d had when I told him I was going to take his love for me away but all I was met with was a sad smile.
    He cupped my jaw in his hand and ran his thumb over my cheek. “That doesn’t mean what you’re probably thinking. There could be a million reasons why I have to go away. And for all you know, my emotionless eyes are just my way of coping with whatever it was I was leaving the room for. I mean, we could’ve just had a fight and I went to stay in another room. We could’ve been going to do a task that neither one of us wanted to be