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

widened in shock, looking mortified as she laid eyes on me, like she wasn’t expecting me to come. And now that I thought about it, Lexi never did say anyone was coming with her. She might have said ‘we’ once, but Heidi could have easily missed that.

Needless to say, after the initial shock, she then looked straight down, visibly appearing ashamed as if she and I were a couple and I’d just caught her cheating on me.

Shit, I had no idea how to interpret that expression. Why did she look so guilty? Because she was having a good time with someone else? Or for some other reason?

“Hey, how’s it going?” I said in a pleasant tone, trying to put on an appropriate façade. “You guys have fun? Aside from the car problems,” I added, amusement in my tone.

Her date responded well to my introduction, at least. “Hey, nice to meet you both. And yeah, it was fun.” He paused, looking at Lexi. “I assume you’re the sister, so then you must be her boyfriend?” He asked questioningly.

Lovely, a question I didn’t know how to answer. I mean, the answer was obviously no, and yet it didn’t seem so simple as that.

I cleared my throat, trying to ignore Heidi’s alarmed expression. “Oh, no. Just a friend. I’m Sam, by the way,” I said, reaching out my hand to shake his.

“Liam,” he replied pleasantly. “Wow, you have some crazy eyes there,” he added. “What kind of superpower you got going on to cause that?”

I laughed. “I can see in the dark,” I lied, though technically it was true due to my second-sight. Just misleading, since I could do much more than that.

“Really?” he asked skeptically, almost seeming disappointed. “Cool eyes like that, and that’s it?”

“Yeah, kind of lame,” I admitted, only to shrug. “And I guess you could say I have slightly above-average strength.”

He laughed, a really easy-going sound. “Me too, actually.”

Heidi was looking at me now like I was crazy. I couldn’t even imagine what was going through her head based on her expression. Did she want me to be jealous? I mean, I was, so maybe I should be selfish and make that clear later on.

Liam then turned his attention to Lexi, holding out his hand toward her. “And I don’t think your sister mentioned your name.”

The person in question smiled. “Lexi,” she said simply, reaching out to shake.

Instantly, everything changed.

Just like that, the world flipped upside down.

Suddenly, Lexi had a thin metal rod, as skinny as an arrow, stabbing directly through her hand and into her right thigh, a confused expression crossing her face as she looked down like she wasn’t even sure what she was staring at.

Liam’s grin widened, his tone coming out slowly, even as pinpricks of gray metal began forming all over his visible skin.

“Compliments, of the Sheriff.”

SHIT!

As fast as lightning, all nineteen of my astral limbs erupted out of my body, nine swarming around each woman, while one sliced straight through the guy’s neck, just as hundreds of metal arrows exploded from his body in every direction.

I was instantly a pincushion, blinded in my left eye by a rod getting stopped by the back of my skull.

The man’s head hit the ground, before anyone screamed.

Ignoring my own wounds, I quickly tried to take stock of the situation, still barely comprehending what had just happened.

It was all so fast.

Barely two seconds had passed.

Heidi was frozen solid, but completely unharmed, unable to shift her gaze from the guy’s head lying on the ground. And then it hit her, her words coming out slowly at first. “Oh god. Oh god. Oh god, oh god, oh god.” Her hands shot up to her head, her eyes wide in panic. “No, no, no, no, n–”

She abruptly heaved forward and began vomiting all over the ground.

Lexi was also mostly unharmed, minus the initial rod still in her thigh, her hand forcefully connected to a severed arm – cut from nine of my astral limbs trying to protect Lexi and physically separate her from the guy.

She was more collected than Heidi, or possibly just still in shock.

And then there was everyone else. Windshields broken, people skewered, blood everywhere. Anyone within a twenty-foot radius was either dead or actively dying, while those further away were a mix of injuries.

Shit!

Beginning to use some of my astral limbs to yank out the thin metal rods, I suddenly wondered for the first time why I couldn’t use my astral body in a similar way that I used my limbs…

And then, suddenly, with a little bit of focus, I flexed a metaphorical muscle I’d never really used before, shoving out all the rods at once.

Seriously? Are you shitting me?!

If I could do that, then did that mean I could have stopped them from stabbing me in the first place?

Shit, I didn’t know, but what I was confident of was two things – I needed to see my evaluation right now, if not yesterday, and I also needed to make an emergency phone call.

Grabbing for my phone, I realized it was a goner. The chip was probably fine, but the phone itself had been impaled.

With my body all healed now, I got down on my knees to focus on Lexi, as well as so I could get her phone once I made sure she was alright.

“Are you okay?” I said urgently, trying to ignore the screaming all around us. Shit, I was pretty sure the rods reached as far as the theater, shooting straight through the windows and impaling a few unlucky people inside.

She nodded, shaking violently, her lips looking blue. She was still holding onto the severed arm, her hand propped up by the rod in her leg.

“I’m going to try to cut this,” I said, carefully wrapping astral limbs around the metal shaft and making sure it was secure before slicing through. I didn’t want to pull it out completely, because I had no idea if it might have punctured a major artery and I didn’t