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

with it clicking ominously into place, only for her to begin walking over to the guy’s left side with an empty expression. When she reached his side, locking eyes with his panicked gaze, she very gently tugged on his gown a little, revealing his bony upper chest, and placed the blade over his heart. She ignored his muffled and urgent groans as she positioned the tip between two ribs.

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

“Hey, are you sure?” I asked seriously, watching her slowly begin to push the blade in, with a vacant expression in her pale eyes. The man was basically screaming now, except that it was completely muted.

Yet, despite everything, I felt like I should be the one to do it, instead of her.

“Of course I’m sure, Sam,” she replied in an empty tone, continuing to slowly put pressure on the blade until it was inside the body as far as it would go.

The man’s tense muscles went limp. Then, after a few seconds of watching the life leave his eyes, she finally looked up at me, her tone emotionless.

“After all, in a pride, the alpha protects the females.” She paused. “But the females usually do the hunting.”

18: Devastating Curses

Lily Dodson

April 20, 2735 – Current Day – Evening

Lily sat on the couch in the downstairs living room, her bare feet up on the slick surface, while Freya and Rose were putting Eden in her crib. Since it was Saturday, and they knew Rose was worried about her daddy, they’d probably just let the young girl watch over her little infant sister for a while, instead of making her go to bed.

However, Lily was focused on something else at the moment, staring at her phone as she mentally kicked herself in the butt.

Freya came down the hallway and glanced into the empty kitchen, before focusing on Lily resting on the couch, walking over to her with a reassuring smile. Lily tensed slightly, her heart skipping a beat, when Freya then leaned over, showing way more boob than Lily would have preferred at the moment, and planted a gentle kiss on her temple.

Beyond the one time, Freya hadn’t bitten Lily in over a week, nor had she requested that Lily spend time with her without Sam. But she was still nervous about it coming up again. She’d do it, of course, but it was still awkward.

And certainly, Lily had seen all of Freya naked, but there was a time and place for it. Outside of certain circumstances, she felt weird about it.

“Something wrong?” Freya asked, moving to sit down next to Lily’s feet.

Lily tried to swallow the lump in her throat. “Umm, yeah. I sort of made a mistake.”

Freya was immediately concerned. “What happened?”

“Well, Nancy has been wanting to catch up, which I’m fine with, but I don’t want her to see me without my implants, because it would bring up too many questions. However, she just messaged me again after a few weeks, and I accidentally told her we were really busy with the new baby and all. And now she’s all excited and wants to meet her.” She grimaced. “I’m sorry. I know we were trying to keep it a secret. I just wasn’t thinking.”

Freya rested her hand reassuringly on Lily’s foot, gently rubbing her smooth skin. “It’s alright. Eden doesn’t really have a normal superpower, so we could just claim that growing fast until she reaches a certain age is her ability.”

“Oh.” Lily thought about that. “Okay, yeah. I mean, that does sound a little weird, but I think Nancy would buy it. And I mean, not that it really matters. It’s just Nancy. She just loves babies and is excited for us.”

Freya smiled warmly, only to stiffen slightly.

Lily was confused by her reaction until she realized someone was urgently running down the stairs, which she didn’t hear until they got over halfway down.

It was Lexi, her phone in hand.

Both women focused on her with concerned expressions.

“They got him,” Lexi announced, her purple eyes wide, like she couldn’t believe it herself. “My boss just called and said it happened a few hours ago. They really got him. The terrorist after me is dead.”

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Sam Archer

April 20, 2735 – Current Day – Evening

After retracting her knife from the Sheriff’s chest – with the wound surprisingly leaking very little blood, since there was no heartbeat to push it out – Winter proceeded to wash it off in the bathroom, only to dry it and put it back in its pouch on her ankle. She then told me on the way out to lock the door with my astral limbs, since the door had a deadbolt that required a special type of key to actually use – not any kind of key you’d be able to purchase by normal means.

I assumed it was designed so they could lock doors on floors that weren’t being used.

Once that was done, Winter wrapped her arms around my waist, and took us toward a stairwell to make our way down to the first floor, going an entirely different way back to the main entrance.

Once in the massive lobby, she pulled out her phone while we walked to make the call. Her message was simple.

“We got him. Room 726.”

I could just barely overhear Jackie’s voice, due to the proximity of our heads.

“Shit. You’re serious? Okay, we’ll call the local police and give them instructions to secure the scene. Shit. I can’t believe this. Okay, I got to go. Calls to make.”

She hung up.

Winter deposited the phone back in her pocket, and we continued to walk back to the car in silence, our pace casual. Once we reached the vehicle, she separated from me and climbed into the passenger’s seat, her expression still empty.

I proceeded to get behind the wheel and backed the car up, making our way out of the garage. She was now kind of slouched in her seat, her butt almost at the edge, her knees spread apart, pressed against the dash.

Neither of