Open Minds (Mindjack, #1)

by Susan Kaye Quinn

“When you touch for longer, you feel what they feel, like you’re joined together into one person. You can explore their emotions. If they like what you’re doing, it can be very… intimate. If they don’t like it, well, you feel that too.”

But he didn’t stop. He leaned toward me, and I saw as clear as the half-grin on his face that Raf was going to kiss me. Before I could make my lips move, I thought, STOP!

And then my brain exploded. Electric shocks seemed to sizzle through it, and tiny phantom stars flew past my eyes. Raf crumpled.

“Big deal, so he read your mind. Just proves you’re not a zero.” I wondered why we were playing this stupid game. “He didn’t read my mind,” he said. “I jacked into his.”