Rage crashed through me, tearing me apart at how easily he had disarmed me, how surely I had failed my mama. It ripped through the centre of my being and awoke that mysterious, dark power inside me, making it rise and rise like the roaring of the ocean. It blazed with an intensity that ricocheted through the edges of my skin, a power like no other burning out of me and driving into the hellion on top of me. But nothing happened, he wasn’t thrown off of me or impacted in some way that I could tell, though his brows drew down like he had felt something. But whatever it was, it wasn’t enough to
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