“I don’t care about the reasons right now, Nate,” I whispered, dropping my hands to look at him. My whole body was shaking with a frantic, desperate vibration that made me want to crawl out of my skin. “It’s too much. I can’t think straight. I need to leave, go to my room, and just…be alone.”
Pushing against his chest again, harder this time, I demanded, “Let me go.”
“No.”
The single word fell from his lips with absolute, immovable finality.
I froze, my eyes widening in shock. This was the man who analyzed data, who measured distances, and who treated every interaction like a carefully controlled experiment. Yet the man looking at me right now wasn’t a scientist. He was a Nexus, and he had just tasted his Conduit.
“What do you mean, no?” Raiden snarled, taking a heavy, threatening ste
