Chapter 14 Wait, WHAT? I blink extra-fast, not believing what I’m seeing. Then I scan the kitchen again. The guy in black body armor is still there. He looks about eighteen, tall and strong with military-style hair, a square jawline, and soulful blue eyes. Scientifically speaking, he’s handsome. And familiar. Where have I seem him before? Our gazes lock. Parts of my soul twist. Energies shift. Connections form. I must be under major stress again, because I’m having that same illusion I did before with the Lacerator. A thin haze of blue particles forms around me. Mom and Miss Edith don’t seem to notice anything, but I swear, the boy catches the change right away. Emptions whirl through me. Once again, they aren’t mine. Without knowing how, I’m certain these feelings come from this

