Finally Heaven (Room 103 Book 4) (33 page)

“She’s going into shock!”

I tried to open my eyes, tell them I was good but the heaviness drawing my lids closed refused my order. Attempting to shake my head when I felt a prick at my skin I whimpered, shivering at the cold rush of fluid through my veins.

“Call Janice. Tell her the data won’t process. She’s blocking us.”

My lips were numb, frozen together under the flurry of ice racing through my system. My whole body felt alive, over-stimulated and pulsing with energy. The rush made me dizzy but strangely euphoric.

“Elina. Elina can you hear me?”

Another sharp scratch at my skin poured liquid fire through me, the heat burrowing deep into my nerve endings and firing shots of lava into my muscles, solidifying my blood until it felt like thick sludge squeezing my arteries wider, fortifying me from the inside.

I gasped at air, my fists clenching with the agony tearing through me. Something snapped and a sound whooshed by my ears. My body surged forwards, my fingers clenching with a need, a craving to destroy and massacre the only thing I could concentrate on, the urge too powerful to defy.

“Fuck!” someone shouted loudly, penetrating the haze in my head. “Lock us down!”

Red lights flared behind my eyelids, a siren piercing my brain, its vibration invigorating my senses. My eyes snapped open.

His face reddened, my fingers around his throat making his eyes bulge. I couldn’t stop the screaming inside my brain. The pain was excruciating, bringing with it a violent need to vomit.

“Elina!”

There were several of them. Each white coat drawing nearer, each of their hands in front of them trying to placate my wrath.

That’s when the buzzing started, the high pitched wail in my skull.

And that’s when every single bulb in the room exploded, plunging me into darkness.

Book 2 in the Deception series

By Ker Dukey & D H Sidebottom

Cade.

He had her love. Her devotion. He destroyed her with it!

Years I loved Faye Avery from a distance, watched my brother have something he didn’t deserve. She was always too good for him. Dante had a need for control and that grew with him from childhood, infecting her to bend to his whim.

When Dante abandoned her, the girl who put his future and needs before her own, I rediscovered the girl who lost herself to the heartache. She blossomed and flourished in the light of the love she deserved - until he robbed me of her. Breaking her down, dimming the essence of the woman she had become.

Dante had a darkness inside him that led him down a path of depravity. He was too far gone. He functioned on corruption, humiliation, power and retribution, and all for something that never happened.

What he forgets is this! I not only wear his face, I carry the darkness inside of me too, and my wrath will coat him with it so thick he will drown under the rain of my reckoning.

He wants Star, a memory of a girl he used to know. He stole Faye, a woman who owns my heart and is the cadence in mine.

I will find him.

I will find him. I will take her from him.

And then I will kill him.