A Step To Far

Chapter Three

Cassie POV...

I started to feel calmer as Will set me down in is sofa. He turned on the fireplace so we could somehow get warm. The rain kept falling hard outside.

          ‘I´m going to get you some dry clothes’ He said. I was all wet from the rain.

          Playing out the last hour in my mind I felt useless and drained. How could I lose control like that? Stupid, it was just so stupid. I went to the bedroom to put the clothes he brought me, and I felt like I could just pass out. The bed calling my mushed head.

          The tears started running down my cheeks again, and I swallowed a sob. I didn´t know how much of this I could handle, I need help, before the madness started to creep in. My mother was also an empath like me, but although she had the greatest control on her power, I had ever seen someone held, she too had her moments when it was to much and she would be kind of crazy in those moments. My father helped with her crises, however, we all knew there was no history of many empaths who would survive long without becoming fully insane or committing suicide.

          My parents were like me, I had both of their powers, telekinesis and being able to feel other people’s emotions, my brother had my grandfather’s power, he could alter one memory. Both of us hided our power, he completely, since Julian, as the cruel man he could sometimes be, would feel threatened by it, no one could be more powerful than him. Me, he only knew some part of it, and besides I couldn´t controlled them, so who was I a thread? Both me parents and grandma insisted we kept it this way, they never explained why.

          I heard a knock in the door, I was still holding the clothes in my shaking hands, my sobs now becoming frequent.

          ‘Coming in…’ William warned.

          ‘Hey, hey…’ He tried to calm me down again, engulfing me with his arms. I wanted to cry even more as I realized how perfectly I fitted in his arms.

          ‘You need to change, or you are going to get sick.’

          ‘I can´t.’ I admitted with my voice no more than a whisper.

          One of his hands moved to my cheek caressing it and gently tilting my head up.

          ‘Cassandra, can I?’ He was asking if he could undress me, some other time my heart would have skipped a beat at the meaning of that words, and my belly would feel with that butterfly feeling. However right now my heart was heavy and void of emotions, as a reaction to having them all inside just moments ago.

          I nodded to him in agreement. He started by my blouse, taking off the buttons carefully as not to touch my bare skin, leaving me in just my bra, soon he took that of too, always keeping his stare on my eyes. I closed them not being able to hold his gaze. I wanted this for so long, but this wasn’t right, Will was just changing me into dry clothes, nothing more. When I opened my eyes, he had already finished dressing me and was carrying me to bed.

          ‘I need to warn your brother that you are here. You need to rest.’ He spoke.

          ‘Please… don’t leave me alone.’ I begged, I couldn´t bare the thought of being alone right know.

          He looked at me like he was conflicted about what to do, and walk, laying next to me above the covers. ‘Ok.’ Was the only thing he said as he pulled me to him.