Page 134 of Resolve
Training together.
Dane’s gift making progress against his barrier like a beacon of light, penetrating Charles’s gift. Kind of like...
Jackson telling me about his new move on the balcony.
Wait. Go back.
“I compress it…”
“It’s the same amount of force contained in a more precise attack.”
I don’t have any time to think about it.
I let instinct take over to do it. Take all the power I have, everything I’ve released, and then squish it down. Compress that same power into something small. The lightning stops, and I can feel my gift disappearing from my extremities as I draw it tighter and tighter into a ball in my chest. I concentrate it down, down, down… until not a flicker of my gift is still visible.
But I can feel it.
All that power… all that force…
It’s here in this tiny ball.
I send it to my hand.
My index finger.
And I point it at his chest.
I can’t see anymore. I’m barely conscious, praying that I aim for his heart. As soon as my fingertip brushes against something, I let it go.
It’s like pulling a trigger on a gun.
One second, the power is a massive energy at the tip of my finger, and the next, it fires and vanishes.
There’s nothing left.
No gift.
And no air.
Chapter forty-three
Kellan
Forallmynewfoundstrength, it does nothing against the force surrounding Charles and Raegan. Jackson struggles against that pressure as if he might somehow break through, and I do the same on the other side. No amount of slamming into it had any effect, so if we can find a way to meet its pressure with our own... maybe make it collapse...
Red lightning streaks across my vision, and I stop breathing.
“Raegan!” I roar, relief making me weightless when I see her eyes open. When I see herfight. It re-energizes my aching muscles from colliding with this barrier and the floor over and over again.
Her lightning strikes Charles in powerful, blinding blows. I can hardly see them through it.
I’m fucking coming, beautiful.
I ram into the barrier and get instantly repelled. It uses the same force we throw at it to send back at us. When I return, I lean into it, slashing my claws through it and meeting firm resistance.
Power explodes from Raegan and Charles without warning, slamming me into a wall. It crumbles beneath me, wood snappingand drywall collapsing like a wet paper towel.
My ears ring from the impact, and I shake my head to get it to knock off as I get my bearings. I’m in the next room.
