Chapter 386

SHAWN

But I couldn't stop it. Couldn't shove the power back down. It was responding to my anger, to the humiliation, to every insecurity I'd been carrying about whether I belonged here.

I tried to pull my hands away from the locker, but the plasma was spreading. The metal was glowing now, heat radiating outward, and I could feel the power building.

I was going to explode. Going to release a plasma blast in the middle of the hallway and probably kill half the students in the immediate vicinity.

Then something cold hit me. Incredibly, shockingly cold.

Liquid nitrogen, I realized distantly. Someone had just doused me with...