Chapter 18

The first time Axel experienced the mental scream, he ended up crashing the bike. Gunner would be pissed.

Even after everything stopped moving, and he lay face first in the dirt, he paused and tried to decipher what had happened.

Someone was hurting Laura. He'd felt it, sharply. Intensely.

Then nothing. The strange link between them went blank.

What did it mean? Was she dead? He had no way of knowing.

He pushed to his feet and brushed off his dusty apparel. The motorbike chugged where it lay on the ground, a single wheel spinning. He lifted it and could have cursed when he noticed the damaged siding. Which meant only half the recharge power. Well before he reached the Incubaii Dome, the bike died.

He kicked it. Cursed it. Yelled at the sky.

"Why are you fucking with me? She needs me."

And he kept failing.