Chapter 5
It wasn’t the rapid beat of Layne’s energy that concerned Heaven as she stared him in the eye. He had every right to be angry. At Faith for slapping him and humiliating him in front of their friends. At Heaven for agreeing to be his friend, then letting it slip to Faith that they’d talked about her. It wasn’t even the fact that his energy pulsed around her more than her sisters’. It was the way his eyes burned into her, the way they seemed to scorch her skin more than the rays beaming from the sun.
The more powerful the emotion, the more it ate at her. Anger was the worst. It was like getting punched in the gut.
The anger and hurt swarming around Layne weren’t projected toward Heaven. Faith was a different story. If she hadn’t stormed away, their argument would have grown wors
