Intended Series Collection: Books 1-6 by Abigail Grant (best summer books .txt) 📗

She continues talking. "For the entire next week, I was constantly sick to my stomach and my chest was hurting so bad I could barely make it out of bed in the morning. My mother was so worried about me and figured I must have had the flu or something. She didn’t know of my feelings for Cedric. It wasn't until we got a call from Gram that we figured out what the problem was." She smiles at Gram before finishing her story. "I guess Gram noticed that Cedric was having the same symptoms as me and knew exactly what to do. She put Cedric on a plane back to me and told him, 'You better embrace that girl, young man and stop being so darn stubborn!'" Everyone but me laughs. "You know when Gram tells you to do something, you better do it. As soon as I saw him on my doorstep, he swept me up in his arms and kissed me until I couldn't breathe. Needless to say, the ache I had been feeling vanished pretty quickly."

I breathe very slowly as I listen to her story, feeling as if there is some answer that I am missing that would pertain to my life now.

Kassy giggles. "That's so amazing. So, just a touch cures the illness?”

The ladies in the room all nod with smiles.

Kassy continues with the questions, loving all of the gooey romance. “How do people usually know when they are someone's Intended? Is it always that kind of trial?”

Gram looks my way, as if she is talking to only me. "With my Leo and I, it was just the first handshake that told us we were Intended for one another."

"How is that possible?" I ask. "What did it feel like?"

She answers slowly so that I hear every word. "It felt like electricity. When a Seer touches their Intended, there is always a tingling electricity that passes through to the other. It's also how we can make one another stronger, as if we charge the other’s abilities."

I gasp at her words. She has to know that I have felt that with Gavin. I look at all of the Seer faces around me. The women see my reaction to Gram's words, and they watch me with knowing eyes, even Alexa who gives me a sad smile. It seems the only one out of the loop is Kassy.

How could we be soul mates? I learned about this world less than two weeks ago and now I'm supposed to decide whether or not to marry the first Seer I met? Whether or not to be with someone forever… And, who's to say that he even wants to choose me.

A realization comes to me. He has to know what we are to one another by now. He knows the signs because he has been taught these things since he was just a kid. How can he know who I am to him and not tell me? Does he really want that badly to not be with me that he’d just keep me in the dark?

Everyone continues talking as I sink into a dark hole of unanswered questions within myself. I have wanted nothing more than to be the one that Gavin wants, even though I pushed him away in the first place and thought there was another girl out there Intended for him. I feel as if I just got my wish dangled in front of my eyes and then ruthlessly ripped away from me. Gavin Cole is my Intended...

Chapter 8

It is nearly impossible to avoid Gavin like I had planned. Apparently, three days isn’t enough time to build up my strength and endurance in order to protect myself and get away from him. Nowhere I go on his property is enough distance to help me move on. Being aware of the “string” on my heart makes the pain worse when he is gone watching over Kassy at school. I know now that the reason he had been 'accidentally' brushing up against me here and there was so that we wouldn't get sick from not having contact with one another.

He still avoids me, which is good I guess, but it doesn't help that we are doing hand to hand combat every day. Each time we fight, and I feel the tingle from his touch, it takes all of my strength to not just fall into our surreal bond and give up trying to fight it. Sometimes, it feels like Gavin wants what I want, and then he is back to being cold and distant.

Like now, I actually get a couple of good hits in his chest during our fight and he even smiles at me with a look of pride on his handsome face. His eyes lock onto mine and, just as I start to feel cared for, he turns and walks away from me as if I'm just another person to him.

"Aella," Gavin says, his back still moving farther away from me as he makes his way toward the weapons wall. It's just the two of us in here today. Kassy and Alexa went shopping with Liam because they were both getting pretty stir crazy. Gavin and I needed to practice fighting anyways so we stayed behind. Kassy doesn’t like watching us spar. She says it feels like she is interrupting something private, which is just ridiculous.

I watch the muscles stir beneath his skin with every slight movement. "Yeah?" I say, just louder than a whisper.

He pauses, as if thinking about what to say next but shakes his head, erasing whatever words never made it out. He reaches for a small black bag sitting on a shelf by the swords. "I uh, was just wondering if you'd tried throwing knives yet?" he says, turning to me with a forced smile.

I know that's not what he was planning on saying but I play along. "No, I'm afraid I'll take an eye