Evolution (Evolution Series Book 1)

Chapter 7

I sat on Aiden’s sofa and stared at my phone, which was sitting on the coffee table. I couldn’t believe she had called me only moments before the time that I thought she was taken. And if that was true, then maybe if I hadn’t been so caught up getting my rocks off with Aiden, I would have been able to save her, instead of just having that stupid vision where I couldn’t do a bloody thing to help her.

“Aww, honey, don’t think like that,” Anna said, walking down the stairs with Dave in tow. Even though I had been led to believe that Dave was Aiden's brother-in-law, looking at him now, it was a wonder I hadn’t seen the similarities between them sooner. They both had the same bone structure and the same dark brown hair, but Dave’s blue eyes threw me. He didn’t share the same hypnotic green eyes that both Anna and Aiden had.

“She’s right. You can’t live your life with ‘what ifs’,” Dave said, before disappearing from sight. “Otherwise, you’ll have a bloody long and depressing life,” he said, ruffling my hair from behind the sofa. I wondered if my eyes would ever be able to follow the speed at which Aiden and his family moved.

“Well, that depends on how we move. You see, if I move really fast, then yes, your eyes will eventually be able to track our movement. But if I teleport, you won’t,” Dave explained as he teleported (I think) so that he was sitting, on the opposite side of the sofa.

“Yes, he just teleported.” Anna sat down beside Dave. “But we can talk about that later. Right now, I think there is something a little more important,” she said, looking at my phone.

My stomach started churning at the thought of having to listen to Chelsea’s message again.

“I would tell you to go wait outside while we listen to it, but I know you’ll want to torture yourself some more,” Aiden half-joked as he put his arm around me.

He was right. There was no way that I was going to sit out of this one. Even if it did mean that I was probably going to puke.

With all eyes on me, waiting for me to play the message, I leant forward, dialled through to my voicemail account, and pressed speaker. The voicemail lady said that I had one saved message from today at five thirty a.m.

Moments later, Chelsea’s voice filled the room. “Hey, Jade, I’m guessing you’re a little tied up with that hunk of yours wrapped around you... Oops.” She laughed. “I probably shouldn’t be talking like that anymore, you know, seeing as I have my own man now and all. Or can I still do that? Do you think Ben would get all jealous if he heard me talking like that?” She stopped, probably to ponder the answer to her question.

“Well, seeing as though you’re not answering your phone, I’m gonna come over to yours, ’cause I’ve got some gossip for you…,” she sung before trailing off, probably daydreaming over Ben—I still had no clue how that happened. “Anyway, I’ll see ya soon. Oh, and you two better have your clothes on by the time I get there.” She snickered and disconnected. I was too sick with worry to care about Chelsea’s comments about Aiden and me in the sack.

Nobody spoke straight away, but that didn’t mean much with Aiden, Anna, and Dave. For all I knew, the three of them were having a telepathic conversation with each other, trying to work out what to say to me.

“You’re so paranoid.” Aiden squeezed my arm before leaning down and kissing the top of my head. “They’re just trying to work out what to do next. It’s much quicker if they don’t have to speak their thoughts out loud.”

“He’s right, sweetie,” Anna said. “Do you mind if the two of us have a look at the vision you had this morning?”

“Go for it,” I said. I pulled my legs up and wrapped my arms around them. I knew it didn’t hurt when they went looking through my thoughts, but it still made me nervous. I mean, as natural as it was for everyone else in this room, it was still in the freakish science fiction category for me.