Forty-Four

My stomach twisted in revulsion, and an anguished cry tore from my throat. I stood up when I saw freaking Jack touching my bed. No one touches my bed! It was a sacred place where one rests, dreams and cries. How dare he?
“What are you seeing?”
“He’s like me, Vlad. He also has a gift. Psychometry. He can get information on a person, or an event when he touches an object related to it. That’s what that little pervert is doing.” I sighed, my blood boiling.
“Crap! There’s something wrong. I can’t get almost anything, only impressions.” Jack’s frustrated tone came through the speakers.
“Can’t you get any information about it at all?”
“No, just impressions. She was here, and there was someone else with her, powerful. I don’t know what it is, but there’s something blocking my reading, and I’m getting a nasty headache every time I force my mind. Shit!” We listened to the conversation for a few minutes.
“Well, well, well. So it worked! Not totally, but good enough.” I strummed my fingers on the desk, thinking for a moment.
“Care to explain, if he has this gift, why is he having trouble?”
“I researched a lot, and I built a magnetic field around my property. When we got down here, I switched on. It turns out a magnetic field can block, or at least mess with our gifted minds! Take that, Jacko!” I said, punching the air.
I just couldn’t believe in my own eyes! Jack had betrayed me in the most despicable way. Was he once truthful to his feelings for me? What did I do to him to deserve such betrayal? I couldn’t remember anything. He was the first person I met at the paranormal division, the first to welcome me to the unit, and the first to put up with my shyness.
So why all these, now? I was going to find out. They entered my garage, and my sweetness was there, at their mercy. They got a bug and stuck it in the steel fender. Probably a GPS. I expected more from him, the stupid behaved like an amateur. Didn’t he think I’d find the bug as fast as he put it there?
Gosh, I was so enraged and betrayed I couldn’t control the sparks gathering in the air, and for the first time I saw static coming out of my fingers as thin lightning streaks. Looking at them, an idea came to mind since the floors in my house had copper in them as part of the magnetic field. I searched for the wires that delivered power over my house. There should be a pipe here somewhere with them running inside. I walked to the corner of the basement and found them.
“Liz, I don’t like that look on your face.” Vlad blocked my way.
“Don’t you dare to interrupt me, stay back and watch.”
“You’re not putting your life on the line.” He growled at me, not moving.
“If you don’t get out of my way, you’re gonna get hurt.” I pushed him away and flipped off my magnetic field, closing my eyes. With a deep inhale, I grabbed the wires, putting both of my hands in parallel by the pipe and wall. Maybe, if I calmed down and controlled myself, I could use my new talent to my advantage.
The energy built, the air crackled, and I let go a jolt of energy. The entire house became an energy trap. Now that fucker would know how good it was to have his ass fried. I heard screams, and I jolted a second time. More screams. They were music to my ears.
“Boss! What’s happening?” Electrical waves traveled through the ground, walls, hitting the men in my garage, trapping them to the floor, while they squirmed like the worms they were. “Let’s get out of here.” One of them hissed between shocks and screams.
“Take this! It’s a small sample of what I felt in that cabin, assholes!” I was having fun at their expense. I felt like a defibrillator delivering shots and more shots of electrical currents to poor, corrupted black hearts, and their screams were like food to my power.
“ALEXANDRA, STOP!” The angry yell hit me at full-blown, and I fell to the floor like a rag doll. The next minute he was gathering me in his arms and taking me to the little cot at the corner. “What have you done, Liz?” He kissed all over my face, taking the sweaty hair out of the way. I got so exhausted. “I’ve never seen your eyes glow like that.” He was pissed and scared. I felt it, and I was in for a scolding.
“I’m ok, Grizzly! Just tired.” I answered, wheezing.
“You do that again, and I don’t answer for myself! I’ve already told you, I won’t accept you putting yourself in danger! Did I make myself clear, Alexandra?” He roared at me, but his voice came out so low it gave me chills. He seldom called me by my full name, and that was bad. “What were you thinking?”
“I don’t know, Vlad. Rage invaded me, and I needed to lash it out! He betrayed me!” It was late. My eyes glinted with frustrated, angry tears, and I averted my gaze, unable to face him. “I wanted them hurt. I wanted them dead, and if this makes me a bad person, then I am!” I didn’t care what he thought about me. It was tiring, people treating me like an idiot all the time. The yells from the two guys coming inside the house, and grunts from the losers sprawled on the garage floor, had our eyes turn to the screen again.
“How did you do what you just did, don’t you have some sort of field here? Why did your eyes glow, dragă?”
“I flipped the field off and channeled my energy, mixing with the electrical power available, and I… just jolted forward. Maybe I got a little carried away. I don’t know about my eyes glowing. It never happened before, but I felt so darn angry, I wanted to fry everything in front of me.” I gazed at the screens. The two who came inside were dragging one out of the house. Jacko and the other one stumbled out like drunk people getting off a bar.
“They are leaving, Liz. Are you all right?”
“Yes, I’m fine,” I said, sitting up and wincing. “Come, we have to go once they leave. I’m just mad they found my home. But what can I expect, the same way I track everything, it wouldn’t take long for them to track me too, one reason I built this alarm system. Can you feel our surroundings once they’ve gone, to make sure there’s no one spying on us?”
“Sure, I can,” he answered me without flinching.
“Good, let’s move then.” I staggered a bit as I stood up, holding myself to the wall. All this crap wore out my body. Out of the blue, I found myself trapped between Vlad and the wall, his hand on my throat and his eyes staring into mine. I enraged him, and he didn’t hide it from me. His muscles tensed, his shortness of breath, and the way he squeezed my neck, making a light pressure and then massaging to soothe the skin.
“If you put yourself in harm’s way again, dragă. I’ll snap this long, sinful neck of yours like a twig, then I’ll find a way to end my misery. Do you understand that?” he whispered, hissing into my ear. His warm breath bathing my neck, sending shivers down my back, making my womb clench.
I licked my dried lips and nodded, but it was too much. My legs faltered and if it wasn’t for his powerful arms, I’d find myself on the ground. He grabbed me by the waist, and I rested my head on his shoulder, breathing in his woody scent, and feeling his erratic heartbeat just above my own. He was definitely angry at me.
“Sorry, Grizzly, I didn’t mean to upset you, I just don’t know what got into me.” I didn’t like one bit to see him so angry. Things were already so volatile between us. When I realised we were already upstairs in my bathroom. The house was empty, but my rage got to me again. They invaded my space; they touched my things to get info on me, and I don’t forget that easily.
“Vlad, we need to leave. I’m going to prepare everything for our departure. We’re going to dad’s house, but they can’t follow us. This one was a decoy, but I can’t put that place in jeopardy. Can you still feel someone around?” He closed his eyes and concentrated, gathering energy, letting himself go. His beauty mesmerized me. Then his eyes burst open.
“Yes, those two who remained outside earlier stayed behind.”
“Remember when you asked me, what did I want you to do?” He nodded to me with a glint in his forest greens. “Well, now it’s time. Deal with them!” I unleashed my handsome demon.