Defy Me Shatter Me #5 by Tahereh Mafi EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Tahereh Mafi
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Kenji
She’s screaming.
She’s just screaming words, I think. They’re just words.
But she’s screaming, screaming at the top of her lungs, with
an agony that seems almost an exaggeration, and it’s
causing devastation I never knew possible. It’s like she just
—imploded.
It doesn’t seem real.
I mean, I knew Juliette was strong—and I knew we hadn’t
discovered the depth of her powers—but I never imagined
she’d be capable of this.
Of this:
The ceiling is splitting open. Seismic currents are
thundering up the walls, across the floors, chattering my
teeth. The ground is rumbling under my feet. People are
frozen in place even as they shake, the room vibrating
around them. The chandeliers swing too fast and the lights
flicker ominously. And then, with one last vibration, three of
the massive chandeliers rip free from the ceiling and shatter
as they hit the floor.
Crystal flies everywhere. The room loses half its light,
bathing the cavernous space in a freakish glow, and it’s
suddenly hard to see what’s happening. I look at Juliette and
see her staring, slack-jawed, frozen at the sight of the
devastation, and I realize she must’ve stopped screaming a
minute ago. She can’t stop this. She already put the energy
into the world and now—
It has to go somewhere.
The shudders ripple with renewed fervor across the
floorboards, ripping through walls and seats and people.
I don’t actually believe it until I see the blood. It seems
fake, for a second, all the limp bodies in seats with their
chests butterflied open. It seems staged—like a bad joke,
like a bad theater production. But when I see the blood,
thick and heavy, seeping through clothes and upholstery,
dripping down frozen hands, I know we’ll never recover from
this.
Juliette just murdered six hundred people at once.
There’s no recovering from this.
I shove my way through the quiet, stunned, still-breathing
bodies of my friends. I hear Winston’s soft, insistent
whimpers and Brendan’s steady, reassuring response that
the wound isn’t as bad as it looks, that he’s going to be
okay, that he’s been through worse than this and survived it
—
And I know my priority right now needs to be Juliette.
When I reach her I pull her into my arms, and her cold,
unresponsive body reminds me of the time I found her
standing over Anderson, a gun aimed at his chest. She was
so terrified—so surprised—by what she’d done that she
could hardly speak. She looked like she’d disappeared into
herself somewhere—like she’d found a small room in her
brain and had locked herself inside. It took a minute to coax
her back out again.
She hadn’t even killed anyone that time.
I try to warm some sense into her, begging her now to
return to herself, to hurry back to her mind, to the present
moment.
“I know everything is crazy right now, but I need you to
snap out of this, J. Wake up. Get out of your head. We have
to get out of here.”
She doesn’t blink.
“Princess, please,” I say, shaking her a little. “We have to
go—now—”
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