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Chapter eight one
The gentle hum of the electric bulb woke me up. My eyelid felt heavy, but I was fine. I tried to get up, but the pain that throbbed in my head was more than enough to keep me in bed. The door opened and I saw her. Celeste leaned against the door frame, her gaze fixed on me. "Why didn't you tell me?" she said softly. I looked away. "Tell you what?" "When were you going to tell me you can do more than shoot a volt? Do you even know what you did out there could cause a power outage?" she asked I looked at her. "And why do you care?" Celeste simply shut the door and walked toward me. She placed the cup she had been holding for a while in front of me. " Drink. You need it." I grabbed the cup and gulped the content inside. It was not water, but the moment I drank it, I felt my body more calm, and I felt the headache gone. I looked at the cup and back at Celeste. " What is that?" " Something to help with your powers." She replied. "Xavier? Where is he now?" I asked
chapter eighty
My hand shook violently. I was about to release another ball of lightning when the door opened. Celeste walked in flanked by two men and, of course, Marcus. "Let him go, kid!" he said with anger. My gaze flickered between Marcus and the two men. "And why would I do that?" Marcus laughed, a deadly look I have never seen on him before. "Because you don't want her to die," he said nonchalantly. He was right about that. Celeste was useful to me. At least for now. "You are getting yourself into something you know nothing about." Marcus smirked. "Tell me one thing, Marcus." I said with my eyebrows arched. "Did you have a hand in the death of my grandmother?" I asked, staring at him. For a moment, the room went silent. I envisioned just the two of us."Does it really matter? It doesn't change the fact that I hate you, boy! You think you can just come out of nowhere and claim the seat that is rightfully mine!" "Are you saying you sent him to kill my grandma?" I asked again. This ti
Seventy nine
"WHAT DO WE DO? YOU CALL THE SHOT!" I stared at Xavier, who was a bit shocked. "You can either give me what I want or I can just kill you here myself," I said immediately. "Well, you will have to contend with Jordan for the rest of your life, and do you think he is going to forgive you for killing his father?" Xavier looked at me. I laughed as the chaos outside the building unfolded. "Now is not the time for this?" Celeste barked. "I don't know who is out there, Eli. But I am going to try and buy you enough time. In the meantime, try and do what you have to do." I nodded and watched Celeste disappear out of the house. My gaze landed back on Xavier. "Let me ask you one thing." A pause. I walked closer towards Xavier and crouched in front of him. "Did you kill her?" I felt my heart thud slowly. My gaze fixed on his blistered lips. I could feel Xavier trying to see how I was going to react if he said the words; I think he was going to. "What does that change, kid? If I told yo
Chapter seventy eight
I didn’t answer immediately.Instead, I let my eyes sweep the building again—cracked concrete walls, dim yellow bulbs flickering like they were struggling to stay alive, and the faint scent of rust and dampness clinging to the air. This wasn’t just a hiding place.It was a cage."For someone we ‘need,’” I finally said, stepping forward slowly, “you’re treating him like a liability.”Celeste's lips curved into a faint smile, but it didn’t reach her eyes."Everyone is a liability, Eli. It just depends on when they become one.”That answer sat heavy in my chest, but I didn’t push further. Not yet.I walked past her.The two men at the entrance straightened as I approached. Their eyes lingered on me longer than necessary. Curious. Confused. Maybe even… cautious.Good.It only meant one thing: they were scared of me, but Celeste, I was not sure if she was. If there was one thing I had learned in the last few hours—after death itself had spat me back into the world—it was this:Fear was a
Chapter seventy seven
A loud noise erupted inside the hospital. " Get the power on!" " We are losing at V.I.P patience in room 106!" " She is not going to make it through the power outage!" " Get it back on now!" The noise of each doctor over their dying patience woke me up. I opened my eyes slowly and the light fluctuated coming back to life. [ ALL THE DOCTOR'S CLAPPED ]" Let's get back to work!" a man shoutedAll the doctors rushed back to their duty post while a young girl in a white lab coat rushed into my ward. " Jesus Christ!" she slipped the moment she walked in. She looked at me with disbelief in her eyes. " But you are supposed to be...." she stuttered with her hands pointed towards me. " Dead?" I paused I got out of bed and straightened up for a bit. I looked around and saw I was naked. " Turn around." I said slowly staring at her. The girl turned and I quickly grabbed my clothes. " How many hours have I been dead?" I asked,wearing my clothes. The girl breath hard. I could tell tha
chapter seventy six
Death. It felt real. Was I really dead? It scared me but yet maybe it was a way of getting over everything. Saying bygones to the things that troubled my heart. I remember my grandma. She was the only happiness in my life at the time. She was everything that I had wished for. She was my father, mother and guardian. The mere thought of her death angered me more than it should. I felt it. The electric current jolts through my veins. " How?" I said silently. " Because you were never dead." A voice said from my back. I froze for a bit. I knew that voice. " It can't be." My voice was steady as I turned to see who it was. " Grandma?" I called out slowly with a shaky voice. " Eli." she called out with her hands opened for an embrace. I ran into her arms with tears streaming down my face. " I thought you were gone. Dead." I said sobbing She said nothing but simply patted me on my back. " I know, Eli. I missed you too." she said soothingly.
