Free Endless Night (Fate's Intent Book 3) by April Bowles

building up inside me and I felt something take a hold of me. All my senses heightened but it was different somehow. I couldn’t let go of them. I looked back with eyes as solid black as the night and my voice even sounded different to me, more like an animal full of rage. “My mother is dead and you joking about whether or not she actually is, is a grave insult to my life.”
    Ryon quaintly smiled. “And you existing is a grave insult to mine but you don’t need to worry about that right now.”
    “No.” Kole muttered, his eyes right on me. “Now something else should replace its worry.”
    Ryon kept his smile while he examined me. “I think we should test it out.”
    “Wouldn’t be one of your wisest choices. Trever says it can be dangerous.”
    “That’s why we’d do it.”
    I didn’t quite know what they were talking about but there was some part of me that actually wanted to listen.
    “But you don’t know how much. We don’t know the extent of it like he does. You know he’s been—” Kole paused and glanced at us in the chairs for a split second, taking his voice down a notch but I still heard it. “Involved.”
    I would have liked to know what that meant but Ryon changed the subject completely out of nowhere. “Speaking of Trever, when did he get that new scent?”
    “What new scent?”
    Ryon smelt the air and I thought it was odd. I could smell it too but that was because of my senses. What did he have that made him smell it? I thought he could only look in the past. We were wrong about that?
    “It’s floral. Like some kind of lily maybe.”
    Kole perked right up in his chair and became alert. “Calla lily?!”
    “I don’t know maybe.”
    “That’s not Trever.”
    A loud pounding came from the large metal door locking us in and a loud voice with it. “Kole! Open this door right now!”
    It was clearly Jaylyn and she was clearly angry.
    “I don’t see the point in that! Sorry!”
    She screamed and there was more banging but then it suddenly went silent.
    “Did she go away?” Kole asked Ryon.
    He shook his head and lifted his nose in the air again. “No but I smell smoke.”
    I smelt it too but before I could even confirm it or even get a sound out, Ryon and Kole jumped out of their chairs, flipped the table up on its short end so it stood tall and pushed it between us and the door.
    BOOM!
    My ears were silenced.

 
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 16
     
     
    Jaylyn
     
    Fire swirled around me. I shielded my head but I still got burned. I felt it but it didn’t seem to matter. My only goal was to get inside that room. I had to know that Troy was okay. I had to see it for myself, not just feel it.
    The dust clouded the air and I could hear several coughs, mine were even drowned by them. My eyes opened and the flesh of my arms was ripped away to the bone but I almost didn’t feel it. I stepped inside the room and Kole and Ryon pushed a table to the floor and they looked at me with horror. It probably did look bad. My dress was singed up to my hips on my left side and my leg got hit badly. I looked as if I had died but was still walking around.
    It didn’t last very long. I felt my body calming and healing itself while I stood with my eyes right on Kole.
    “Are you crazy?!” He asked me. “You could have just killed us!”
    He was breathing like he had just ran a mile but my voice was relaxed. I came here to do one thing. “You lied to me.”
    “No. You really could have killed us.”
    “You know exactly what I’m talking about and I actually—I actually fell for it, didn’t I?”
    “Well—”
    “No! No more words from you. I’m done even trying.” I extended my hand to his head and he fell to the floor where he stood.
    “Ooh.” Ryon muttered. “He’s going to feel that later.”
    “Leave or join him.”
    “Sorry. I can’t leave.”
    “Fine.” I stepped towards him.
    “Wait. Put me down gently.”
    “And why should I show you that courtesy after