جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 40

Kara’s POV:By the time the researchers were done with the drone, and it was safely stored away, it was almost midnight. Even though I didn’t really feel great staying over at night, when I had other things I needed to do in the city, I knew it was far too dark to fire up the jet.Especially when the only pilot we brought with us, was completely tired. So, we had no choice but to sleep at the mansion.After the murmurs over the drone had died down, the construction workers had made incredible progress on the island, but the house I had planned to use as my main residence was still being reinforced.For now, the sole, luxurious mansion on the island was the only place that was fully habitable. When we both realized that we were going to have to sleep here, Harris walked beside me through the quiet hallway.Even with the construction happening in the night, the island was still strangely peaceful at night. After everything that had happened to me over the past few days, it felt refreshin

Kara’s POV:Harris kept his gaze locked on mine as his fingers worked the buttons of my shirt one by one. Each slow pop of fabric gave way to cool air brushing my skin, and his knuckles grazed the shallow dip between my ribs with every pass. I stood in the low amber light of his bedroom, close enough to feel the heat rolling off him, and let him take his time."You're trembling," he said, voice low and pleased, like he'd discovered something worth keeping."I'm cold," I said, which was a lie, and we both knew it.He didn't argue. He just slipped the shirt off my shoulders and let it fall behind me, then dragged his palms up the outsides of my arms. His movements were slow, deliberate, warming me where the fabric had been.His thumbs found the hollows beneath my collarbones and pressed, and my breath caught and stuttered out again.Deep down within me, I knew I had wanted this from the moment I had woken up in the past and stared into his eyes, and now, I was about to have it, have him.

2 DAYS BEFORE THE APOCALYPSEThe phone continued ringing in my hand as I kept on staring at the screen. It reached a point that Harris stopped talking and turned to face me with raised brows. He only turned around after I nodded at him.I had two days left till the world ended. I didn’t have enough time to deal with whatever trouble this was.I blinked as I stared right at the name tag on the bottom of my screen.Selene. My half sister.That was a name I had not thought of in literal years. It had been so many years that I had pretty much forgotten that I even had a half sister. Even now, I had forgotten what her voice sounded like or how she even looked.My fingers tightened around the phone as it kept on ringing.Eventually, Harris spoke up and called out to me, “Is everything okay, Kara?” he asked, a note of concern in his voice,I blinked. I didn’t have an answer for him.My mind was sprinting through far too many different questions. Why was she calling me now? Of all the people i

Selene rushed out of the restaurant and called after me. But I didn’t turn back, no matter what she said, or how loudly she screamed.All I did was get back in the car, and nod at the driver to take me back to the airstrip.After today, there were two days left until the apocalypse. I could not waste more time here. I had far too much to do.It took almost half an hour, but we finally got to the airstrip. The moment I settled in the cabin, the pilot took off, and we moved right towards the island.By the time the plane reached the island, I could already see the difference a couple of hours had made. The place I had left that morning barely looked like the same island anymore.Workers were walking everywhere with tools in their hands. Large trucks, cranes and other construction machines moved everywhere.During the last couple of hours, the new warehouses had been completely built, and judging by the large freight trucks outside the warehouse, I could tell that all the goods that I had

For several seconds after my question, nobody answered or spoke up. All of them were far too preoccupied with the shock of what they had just seen to speak up.The more the silence lasted, the more nervous everyone around us seemed. Some of the professionals began to exchange uncertain glances. Some swallowed nervously, while others began to find the rocks very interesting.The reaction was understandable, so I couldn’t blame them. I didn’t know how I would react if I had seen someone use telekinesis while also being told that the entire world I knew was going to end in just a couple of days.But right now, believing me wasn't what mattered anymore. Their survival was.Finally, after about a minute of silent deliberation. The expressions of one of the doctors firmed, so I knew he had made his choice. I was right. A couple of seconds later, with his head down and his hands trembling, he took a step forward, glanced back at Harris, before turning around to face me.“I choose to stay.”Hi