The Powerful Pride of an Immortal (Immortal Supers Book 4) Kurtis Eckstein (psychology books to read TXT) 📖

And now he was entertaining her with random stories, all of them amusing.

It wasn’t ‘work’ talking with him. Far from it. It was easy. And she liked it.

Unexpectedly, as they held each other’s gaze for a few long seconds, he abruptly leaned forward and kissed her on the cheek.

She instantly pulled away in shock, her gut feeling like she abruptly fell half a foot.

“Hey, not cool,” she said uneasily.

He quickly pulled away too, holding his hands up. “Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t think that would bother you.”

Heidi hesitated, not sure why it did bother her…

Probably because she’d never kissed anyone before. She liked to talk about that kind of stuff like she had experience, but really she had none. Absolutely none.

But at least it wasn’t the lips.

“No, it’s fine,” she replied, wondering if maybe a peck on the cheek was overreacting. “Just…if I want to kiss, I’ll let you know.”

“Of course,” he agreed, rubbing the back of his neck. “And hey, I’m really sorry. You’re just super pretty – like, drop-dead gorgeous – and I just kind of did it without thinking.”

Heidi’s face flushed in embarrassment. She knew she was objectively attractive, but between Sam’s comment a few days ago, and now this, she wasn’t sure how to handle that.

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Sam Archer

April 13, 2735 – Current Day – Evening

“Sam, what’s wrong?” Lexi asked.

I opened my eyes, realizing we were just pulling out of the gate and onto the road. My hands were clenched into fists in my lap, and I was pissed. “I…I don’t know,” I admitted. “I’m just…really angry for some reason. Like, I want to punch someone in the face, kind of angry.”

Lexi immediately tapped a button on her dashboard touchscreen. “Call Heidi,” she commanded.

The phone began ringing right away. We both held our breath while we waited for her to answer.

“Hey, sis,” Heidi said, her voice filling the interior. “What’s up? You on your way?”

“Yeah, just left. Everything okay?”

“Yeah, I’m good. My date decided to wait with me, so we’re just chatting in the parking lot until you get here.”

Lexi hesitated. “And…he’s okay and everything, right?”

“Yeah, he’s cool. Something wrong?”

“It’s just weird your car is dead. I mean, stuff like that happens, and obviously he was with you the whole time, right?”

“Yeah.”

“But you’re sure there’s no one suspicious around or anything?”

There was a pause. “No, don’t think so. There’s a lot of cars around though, so I don’t really know.”

Lexi sighed. “Well, at least the sun is still up. We’ll go ahead and call a tow truck, okay? And if you see something strange, then go inside or something, okay?”

Heidi nodded her head, prompting a grin to appear on Liam’s face in the corner of her vision. She rolled her eyes, knowing he was smiling because her sister couldn’t see the gesture.

“Okay,” Heidi agreed. “See you soon.”

“See you soon,” Lexi echoed, the call disconnecting as Heidi hung up.

We were both silent for a few seconds, before Lexi spoke up quietly.

“Sam…is my sister going to be okay?”

I looked at her in surprise, seeing fear in her eyes – true fear. The kind of fear only someone who has experienced hell, and barely survived through it, would know. I reached over and gently rested my hand on her shoulder, taking a deep breath.

“I think we’re just overreacting,” I admitted, wanting to comfort her.

“But you were angry just a second ago,” she countered. “And you knew she was going to call before. I mean, has that ever happened and it not been a life or death issue?”

I grimaced, removing my hand from her shoulder.

She looked at me in concern.

“Sort of,” I admitted.

“Sort of?” she repeated. “Sam, tell me. Please. Because this is really scaring me. I can’t lose her. I can’t lose my sister.”

I reached up to cover my eyes with my hand. “You know about Eden, right?” I asked hesitantly.

Lexi glanced over at me again, looking confused now. “Yeah, on the way to our pictures, after the superpower evaluation, Freya kind of gave me the gist of it. What about it?”

“So you know that Eden’s ability kind of had an influence on me, right? Before she was conceived?”

“Yeah…” Lexi agreed hesitantly.

“Well…” I sucked in a deep breath, keeping my eyes hidden, even though I could see her in my second-sight. “Heidi was almost Eden’s mother.”

Lexi’s amethyst eyes nearly bugged out of her head, her voice coming out strained. “O-Oh.”

“And the reason why it didn’t happen,” I continued. “Is because I sort of had a ‘dream’ about it the night before. I stopped it because I knew it was going to happen.”

“B-But you don’t sleep,” Lexi countered, seeming to just say anything while she tried to process what I was telling her.

“Yeah. But it was still kind of like a dream. And when things started playing out the same way, I put a halt to it the moment she tried to kiss me.”

“I…” She struggled for words. “I didn’t realize that happened.”

I finally looked at her. “Well, it didn’t actually happen. Obviously.”

“Y-Yeah, but…” She hesitated. “Why her? Why not someone else, like…” Her voice trailed off, but I suspected I knew what was on her mind.

“Well, basically because she was ready to have a baby. I guess she started her period like two weeks after it happened. She wasn’t on birth control, but she also wasn’t having a period before that due to using her superpower so much.”

Lexi nodded, seeming somewhat reassured by that fact.

“But yeah,” I continued. “So it hasn’t always been for bad things. But that dream, or vision, or whatever, was also a lot different from everything else too. Often, I’ve sensed a lot of the bad things only seconds before it happens. And I don’t know how to control it.”

“And with this situation?” she wondered.

“I don’t even know what to call this. I just knew she was calling, and it’s not like it affected anything. You had your phone on you already, so you would have