Drake Sisters 07 - Hidden Currents

of intuition, some act on it and are perhaps a little more sensitive, but that isn’t the same as true psychic talents. The abilities the Drakes have are enormous.†He looked at Jackson. “Was your mother or father psychic?â€
    Jackson’s hands tightened against El e involuntarily. She didn’t attempt to slide into his mind, not now when he was so uncomfortable with the conversation and clearly didn’t want to talk about his family, but she found herself uneasy without his touch. She had become dependent on the continual reassurance of his mind. Without him, she felt completely alone in the room fil ed with her family.
    El e pressed her hand tightly against his until Jackson laced his fingers with hers. She wanted to surround him with warmth the way he did her, but she forced herself to stay out of his mind and away from his childhood memories.
    Jackson shrugged his broad shoulders and rubbed his chin again against the top of El e’s head. El e recognized it as a sign of nerves as wel as a simple need to touch her. She saw Kate glance at Jackson and then away, as if they shared some secret she wasn’t aware of.
    â€œIf Gratsos is fishing to find the whereabouts of psy chics, then he would have sent his energy out and every place he found psychic energy, the fog would have developed,†El e said into the silence, diverting attention from Jackson. “I’m certain it would show up on the website. I’l check it this evening and see if there are any reports anywhere else.â€
    Jackson, showing his appreciation, leaned down to feather kisses down the side of her face to the corner of her mouth. El e felt the familiar tingle start in the pit of her stomach. He could do that to her in spite of everything that had happened, make her feel beautiful and wanted and even sexual when she wasn’t at al certain she was any of those things anymore.
    Bomber lifted his head, looking around the room and then suddenly focusing on her. He leapt to his feet and barked, a sharp, threatening note, ears forward, eyes piercing. He barked a second time. El e felt the brush of fingers along her throat, faint, almost as light as Jackson’s lips as he pressed kisses across her face to her ear. Non-threatening. Barely there. She coughed, her throat contracting.
    Jackson’s tongue touched her ear, flooding her body with heat. She had never realized she was so susceptible, her body suddenly alive, every nerve ending screaming at her, wanting him and she reveled that she could have such feelings. Jackson was so wrapped around her soul, so a part of her heart and for the first time since escaping, she thought she might have a chance at a seminormal relationship.
    Bomber barked again.
    The fingers brushing her throat pressed deeper. “Jackson,†El e’s hand went to her throat to remove his hands, al of sudden feeling a little too vulnerable.
    Jackson sat up straight, looking at Bomber, nearly giving him the dismiss command, but he was circling the chair, his eyes focused total y on El e. She coughed again and reached for her neck, saying his name again, but this time it came out in a hoarse whisper, as if she couldn’t quite talk.
    She gasped. Wheezed. Pul ed away from him and slipped from the chair to the floor, on her knees, coughing more. Without warning her body was picked up as if she weighed no more than a feather and flung backward. She landed on the hardwood floor practical y at Ilya’s and Joley’s feet.
    Joley screamed and slid to the floor to crouch protectively over her sister even as Ilya caught Joley and pushed her behind him, using his own body as a shield.
    Bomber barked ferociously, darting in toward an unseen enemy. Sarah, Kate and Abigail reached for El e’s writhing body. El e fought her invisible assailant, slapping at nonexistent hands, at her breasts, her thighs, screaming now, kicking as if she was trying to dislodge a hidden attacker. She rol ed across the room, actual y hit the dog, who snapped his teeth at empty air, up close near her throat.
    The room erupted into total chaos. The five Drake sisters leapt to help El e. Ilya was there before the women, kneeling beside El e, but not touching her.
    When Joley tried again to get past him to her sister, he firmly pushed her back behind him. Joley struggled to get around Ilya, the dog barked continuously and El e fought anything that came near her,