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

“Thank you, by the way,” she whispered. “For coming with me.”

“Of course,” I agreed. “Trust me, I’m more than happy to break…err…never mind.”

Shit, I shouldn’t have said that. Even if I didn’t finish that statement – that I was happy to break up Heidi’s date – I certainly said enough to communicate what I meant.

Lexi was staring straight ahead, her hands tight on the steering wheel.

“I would have come no matter what,” I quickly added. “After everything that’s happened? Yeah, I would have come no matter what, especially with something weird and unexpected like this. And I’ll do everything in my power to make sure that both you and your sister stay safe. And if anything serious happens to you, I’ll switch bodies with you if needed to keep you alive, so prepare yourself for that.”

She looked at me in alarm. “B-But what if you die? I…Sam, I don’t want to be in your body forever.”

“I get it,” I agreed. “Trust me, I definitely get it. But Lily’s body wasn’t breathing for like ten hours or something, and yet I kept it alive. Your sister definitely helped, since she was emaciated and all, but now that we know Lily ended up with my regeneration superpower, I’m pretty confident I was the reason why her body remained alive. Because I was in it.”

Lexi gulped audibly.

“But I wouldn’t do that to you unless you were seriously dying, okay?” I sighed. “I’m just trying to say, that I care about you too.”

“Thanks,” she whispered, sounding sincere.

“Of course.”

We were both silent for a few minutes.

“But between me and my sister, who is your pick?” she blurted out.

I looked at her in shock. “Lexi…”

Shit.

I tried to continue. “I…I can’t choose. I mean, I shouldn’t choose either way. I shouldn’t even be thinking about that.”

“But I’m at least tied with her, right?”

Shit.

Shit, shit, shit!

Dammit, I was just going to be honest.

“Yeah, Lexi. You’re absolutely tied.”

Much to my complete and total shock, she relaxed some, taking a deep breath.

“That doesn’t bother you?” I asked seriously.

She looked at me in surprise. “That I’m tied with my attractive, perfect, virgin younger sister? No, not at all. Especially since I’m ‘used goods’ and all.”

I immediately turned toward her in my seat, nearly enraged that she would even insinuate that. “Lexi,” I snapped in a harsher tone than I intended. “You are not used goods.”

She jerked so violently from my outburst that I barely managed to grab the wheel in time, avoiding the car going off the road. Granted, had she swerved much further at this speed, her Ferrari would have taken over anyway to avoid an accident.

“Autopilot,” I commanded, knowing her Ferrari would accept it.

Lexi let go of the steering wheel entirely as the car took over, and I reached over to snag her hands in mine. “Lexi,” I said more gently this time. “You are not used goods.”

She was trembling. She didn’t let go of my hands, instead holding on tighter, but she was shaking now.

“Sorry,” I whispered. “I didn’t mean to yell at you.”

She was quiet for a few long minutes.

“You’re wrong,” she finally blurted out after the lengthy silence.

“Wrong?” I repeated. “Lexi, you’re not damaged goods, or used goods, or whatever. You’re not. I don’t care about your past. That’s never even been a factor in the whole ‘you versus your sister’ thing you brought up.”

She sobbed then, ducking her head more. “S-Sam, I can’t have sex anymore. I’m terrified of it. I can’t even stick a tampon down there without having a panic attack and hyperventilating.”

My eyes widened in surprise. Immediately, I recalled Freya violently jerking away from my arm after being exposed to Lexi’s memories.

Shit.

Without thinking, I reached over and wrapped her up in my arms, pulling her firmly against my chest and holding her tightly.

“I don’t care,” I whispered, my heart feeling like it was literally bleeding for her. “Your value isn’t based on something like that. Lexi, you’re just as important to me as your ‘virgin’ sister.” I scoffed, my tone becoming more lighthearted. “And honestly, your offer to ‘take care of me’ in your office on Wednesday was just as hard to resist as it was when Heidi almost became Eden’s mother.”

“Really?” she sobbed.

“I mean, please don’t put me in that position again, because Freya and Lily will be pissed if we do that kind of thing. But yeah, really. Shit Lexi, if Nick hadn’t interrupted us…”

She looked up at me then, reaching up to wipe her purple tear-filled eyes. “That makes me really happy,” she said with a sniffle.

I returned the smile, the two of us holding each other’s gazes for a long few minutes.

Lexi then focused out the window, only to switch gears completely, instantly sobering up. “Shit, I think we passed it.”

We hadn’t put in an address for the car to follow, so it was just driving. Although, all Lexi had to do was just tell the car to set the destination as her sister’s GPS signal.

Thankfully, we were only a stop past the theater.

Pulling into the parking lot, we spotted Heidi’s white Corvette – the same car Lexi tried giving to Lily as a present almost a year ago after everything that happened. However, she wasn’t near it, instead sitting on the hood of her date’s vehicle, a big grin on her face.

Dammit.

I mean, I should be glad she was happy, but I really wasn’t. Not when that happiness was coming from some young douchebag who was probably perfect for her, and I just didn’t want to admit it.

Dammit.

We parked closer to Heidi, rather than her car, with Lexi double checking herself in the mirror, to make sure it wasn’t too obvious she’d been crying, before we both climbed out to get her. It appeared that one of the other movies must have just finished up, because a crowd of people began pouring out of the theater at the same time, leisurely heading to their vehicles.

Heidi’s lavender eyes