Chapter 188

“I can-” Crossing my arms against my chest, “You’re not flying to Italy and back,” I scowl at him, but then he shoots me a look of guilt. I rest back on my heel, what would he have to feel guilty about? Gabe sits back down, “Besides what I – besides what you know I can do my gifts have two parts,” he says and before my eyes, he’s no longer sitting but standing right by my side. “I’m not as gifted as you but besides astral projection I can teleport, my whole physical body or I can leave my physical body and appear elsewhere as an invisible projection. Now beside… everyone here in this room, the only other person that knows anything is Sabastian,” he stopped, waiting for me to speak. I say nothing, just nod. “I have that gift too… but I can’t manage to go too far… only 20 – 30 miles maybe…” Violet offers. “Any other gifts?” I ask, monotone but I feel relieved that he too has extra powers and abilities, he had taken my news in stride, although I wasn’t sure why he hadn’t said anything earlier but I could offer him the same acceptance he had shown me. “I can manipulate fire, I think,” he said unsure, while Jack and Casey stood, walking over to us. “F – Fire?” I stuttered. Snapping his middle finger, then opening his hand palm up, flames danced. No more than two inches. But then two inches of fire turns into two feet and right back to two inches. “Holy crap!” I whisper as Violet curses. Closing his palm, opening it right back up the fire is completely gone. “That’s – that’s amazing,” I compliment, still staring at his palm, before lifting my eyes to his face and his worried face morphs into an impish grin. “As I was saying I’ll go first, as a projection, then physically. How does that sound?” Bypassing his question, I ask one of my own, “Can you teleport others with you?” “I’m not sure…” he replied reluctantly, eyeing me warily, “I’ve tried taking objects with me, never another person – but even if I could… you’re not coming. I want you safe and this will be simple, in and out, I know where to go,” I just glared, gritting my teeth while he just smiles wider. Mate can’t go alone Avena cried, worried something could go wrong. Gabe’s smile dropped when my glare morphed into worried and anxious. “I’ll go with him Chelsea,” Jack volunteered, “if that’s cool with you?” “Yeah, yeah,” I replied unenthusiastically my face still sour. “Violet… Lukas? You guys mind?” Gabriel relented. “Not a problem,” Violet said beaming, “this is like D and D!” I looked at her blankly. “Dungeon and Dragons,” she explained longer, still nothing on my part. She shook her head, “It’s a game Chelsea,” Lukas laughed, “Nevermind,” she grumbled. Turning to Gabriel, “Better?” he asked me. “Not exactly, but better than you going alone,” I pouted, I was powerful, I should be the one going with him. It could be a trap… Aria said but that didn’t make me feel better, if it was a trap that was when I should really be going. “In and out sweetheart,” he said as he sat on the sofa, settled closing his eyes and it seemed like he was just asleep, his heart rate never changed, body temperature remained the same as I held his hand, and nothing was different. When he returned, he stood stretching, showing me what he saw, and even going to the spot directly placed on the map, an ancient, malformed olive tree, thick and alive. “She sent you to an olive tree?” I ask seriously, unable to say much else. “It has the family crest on there,” Gabriel replied, his face showing the shock I felt as well, a crest apparent centuries old? I nodded, thinking ‘in and out,’ when he left with Jack, Lukas and Violet, while Mikael and Casey sat with me. Tensely. Five minutes. Ten minutes. When I tried to enter Gabriel’s’ mind, any of theirs, I hit a wall. Unbelievably. I find nothing. “I – I can’t reach their minds,” I panicked, standing. Walking over to me Mikael tried to calm me, “If something was wrong you’d feel it?” Would I? “Nothing’s wrong Chelsea,” Casey says soothingly, trying to comfort me. Trying and failing Aria quipped, pacing angry that we couldn’t reach any of them. Twenty minutes, I begin to pace, pushing against the wall in my way from reaching Gabriel. Thirty minutes, I stop pacing, “I can’t reach them, why can’t I reach them…” When it was close to the one hour mark Gabriel, Jack, Lukas and Violet returned. Dirty and caked in mud. Ignoring the skin crawling feeling of the dirty they were dragging into my office, I threw myself straight at him, as he holds a potato sack bag. Dropping it, to hold me tightly, as I relax, finally breathe after 60 minutes of holding my breath. Gabriel wasn’t just my heart. “I couldn’t reach you,” I mumbled into his neck. “Sorry sweetheart, the minute my blood touched down there was this dome surrounding us, like what Ava could do, but it was thick, impenetrable Chelsea,” he said while Jack explained, but all I could concentrate on was that in two days, he would be traveling to London for the Alpha Summit for three days. This was only hours… It’s not the same, you’ll be able to reach him when he goes… the dome was create to retrieve the item and it prevented you from getting in his head Chelsea, but think… if you’re the most powerful and you didn’t get it.. Then – then someone weaker could not hurt him… I calmed for a minute, the thought brought me relief. I perked up when it suddenly hit me, Gabriel could go to London but at night teleport back home. I smiled wide, jumping when everyone behind me started laughing. Gabe’s arms around me held me tighter and I could feel the smile he wore on my neck, as his body shook slightly, “Wow earlier wasn’t enough?” Violet blurted out in a still teasing tone. Not ashamed, “What? I just sleep better when Gabriel is around…” “Thought you’d sleep better now that Leo is gone…” Mikael said off-handedly. “And something worse has taken his place,” I snapped, turning in Gabriel’s arms. Walking to Gabriel’s side, Violet point to the sack, “Are we going to see what’s in the sack?” she questioned, changing topics.