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My worries, my life had felt so inconsequential in the middle of the vacuum of space It reminded me that if I really needed soht, as I’d vowed to do thecapsule frorand adventure for Adarand adventure,"out to be an epic failure

Chapter Fourteen

DracoCon was in less than two short weeks and after the weekend, I foundhours at work, despite Emilia’s requests that I restrainto keep ahead of another headache that had been hovering overme Sometimes they came on that way…a distant inevitability that I knew I couldn’t avoid So

This one ended up doing both And it happened when the complex was mostly dark, at around 7 pet extra work done and I was onthing slammed into me like a brick in the face There were no visual distortions this time, just pure pain I hadn’t had a violent one like this in a long, long tiht have dropped tonear the wall I slu for this wave of craniuony to pass With it came nausea My stomach turned And if I didn’t will it otherwise, I’d probably soon be puking up uts

I crawled back to hted hall, but kept the roo over to the couch, I slumped down and closedthe pain to pass I tried to decide whether I should give in now and take soh it out

I heard soh the haze of pain, if Maggie hadn’t gone ho at han arhts flicked off i in the doorway Likely it wasn’t Maggie, but it ht have been Jordan or one of my close associates who knew about the headaches Otherwise I could just clai

Then the steps inched into the roo "Adam? Are you okay?" came a small, quiet voice I was in a full-on sweat now, but the headache wasn’t so horrible that I didn’t recognize the voice when I heard it Emilia

"I’ht froht now that was the last thing I needed

"You’re not fine" Her voice ca"

"I’h another wave of pain I put my hand to my forehead, pressed down in the center--the pain crackled, out of control I let out a long breath

"It’s just a headache Go away, please"

She set soht with her "I was just leaving Mac’s display board for you to go over When I saw the light off, I figured you weren’t here You seem to be in a lot of pain"

You seem to be in a lot of pain Thank you, Queen of the Obvious, I wanted to reply And it wasn’t just the wretched agony that made me wish I could decapitate myself, either It was a deeper, soul-ache of a pain The one in my heart The hole she’d torn in it when she went away

I turnedthe back of the couch

"Ada?"

I blew out a long, tight breath "It’ll pass soon," I said It had better fucking pass soon

E us in almost co was aon the edge of the couch, her hip nudging againstlike this before?"

She didn’t know about the raines, because I’d never told her about the really bad ones I used to get The few that I’d had while ere together had been easy to shrug off

I turned my head back toward her and opened my eyes I studied her silhouette in the darkness--the white blond hair stood out, even in the diht The pressure vise that held htly At least the nausea was starting to fade