RAGE OF STORMS
THE ACADEMY OF ELEMENTS 3
KAT ADAMS
CONTENTS
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Fury of Earth
More Adams Family
About the Author
PROLOGUE
LEO JACKSON - WATER
It was times like this that made me really hate being an elemental.
Non-elementals wouldn’t be in a dark warehouse, searching for someone who’d vanished right in front of us. No, Nelems would be at home, chilling and watching this unfold on Netflix.
But not me. Not my friends, who’d become my brothers. Not my girl, who’d grown into the love of my life. We currently lived it, this stranger-than-fiction life, as we carried out the pact we’d made just over a year ago.
Four loves are stronger than one.
I thought about the woman who’d brought us all together. Her melodic laughter. Her level of crazy that challenged us at every step just to keep up with her. Her bravado that was only surface deep. She pretended to be so tough, like nothing got to her, but I saw a vulnerable side to her, one that had every protective instinct in my body screaming to react. She’d taken on the weight of the universe without hesitation, stepped into the role of the prophecy without understanding the impact being the one destined to save our world would have on her life.
What a woman.
Katy Reed was more than a girlfriend. To me. To the rest of the guys. She was our life force, the air in our lungs, the reason we bonded as one cohesive unit.
And, currently, she was the reason I seemed to be stuck inside a dark warehouse.
Bryan, Clay, Rob, and I shared a brotherhood forged through our connection to our girl. When one disappeared, we all felt it, like we’d lost a limb. Bryan, our earth elemental with more baggage than an international flight, had gone missing. We weren’t whole without all of us together. We’d find him. That was the only option.
I peeled my shirt from my sweat-soaked chest and used it as a makeshift fan, blowing inside it to cool me down when the slight breeze from fanning myself didn’t work. Ever since meeting Katy, I’d run overly hot, overly sensitive to everything around me. Especially around her. I couldn’t get enough of her. One taste, and I was hooked. She was like a drug boiling in my veins, a literal fever consuming me, each day making me hotter and hotter.
The fever grew worse in times of stress, like now. It was dark, unbearably hot inside the metal building, and I was pretty sure the rats were forming an alliance to coordinate an attack. The sooner I got out of here, the better. It wasn’t the heat of the summer making me uncomfortable, though that didn’t help. I hadn’t been able to shake this spike in my body’s temp for months now. I hadn’t said anything to Katy. I didn’t want her to worry. She already had enough to worry about, what with her being the one destined to save our world.
But truth be told, I was more than a little worried. A fever could be dangerous to a water elemental. We ran cool, relaxed, and went with the flow. This heat building inside me had me the exact opposite. I was too hot, too uptight, and wanted to kick the ass of everyone who looked at me wrong. It made no sense, which was why I hadn’t said anything. I’d push through it. It was just a fever, right?
I still couldn’t believe how lucky we were. Katy chose us—all of us—to be with her. She’d bonded with Rob first, our hotheaded ringleader, which suited the rest of us just fine. Fire elementals like Rob were short-tempered and unpredictable. Our redheaded beauty tamed the savage beast.
With Clay, she had a similar effect. The carefree air elemental had grown a bit more focused, a bit more responsible, since bonding with Katy. Being with her had forced him to grow up. He still kept us laughing, reminding us life didn’t have to be so serious all the time.
It was now my turn to fully bond with the most magnificent woman on the planet, to merge my water element with hers and strengthen our connection, to forge an unbreakable bond. I wondered what about me would change, improve, and mature through our bond, just as had happened with Rob and Clay. Only one way to find out.
Once I got out of this damn warehouse.
1
Clearly, rumors of my mom’s death had been greatly exaggerated.
She stared at me, this woman I hadn’t seen nor heard from in six years, no expression on her familiar face—a face so similar to mine, it was almost like looking in a mirror. She was taller than me, thinner, and had longer hair that’d gone white at the temples.
And she was still unbelievably beautiful.
“Hello, Katy.” When she smiled, it lit up her amazing hazel eyes. It lit up my tortured soul. I never thought I’d see her again.
“Mom?” I wiped the tears from my cheeks. “How…?” I didn’t know what else to say. I stood there, frozen, not even able to breathe.
“My Katybug.”
Despite the fact she didn’t like to be touched—another thing she and I had in common—I sprinted to her and hugged her, the embrace so tight, so fiercely emotional, I didn’t hold back as more tears streamed down my face. She stiffened but didn’t push me back as I feared she’d do. Since I hadn’t had any contact with her, physical or otherwise, in over half a decade, I banked on her making an exception.
“I’ve missed you so much.” She smoothed her hand over my hair. “Oh sweetie. Please don’t cry. I’m here now. I’m right here.”
No way could I talk as I blubbered all over her shoulder. The logjam of emotions clogged my throat and made it a struggle to pull in a
