A Terrifying Mindscape!
5: Chapter 5: The Phoenix Force!
A Terrifying Mindscape!
“Naughty,” Holden teased.
Facing the overwhelming wave of scarlet energy, he simply raised a hand and swatted it away.
The crimson magic instantly dispersed into thin air, scattering like harmless smoke.
‘What?!’ Wanda’s eyes widened in sheer disbelief.
“How…
how is that possible?” Even though she had pulled her punches at the last second because of what had happened between them, there was no way an ordinary human could block her magic so effortlessly!
Let alone brush it aside like it was nothing but dust.
“You’re being completely unreasonable, little witch,” Holden complained, covering half his face as if he were a deeply wronged victim.
“You were the one who seduced me!
I’m just an innocent bystander in all this.
You aggressively stole my innocence, and before I can even ask you to take responsibility, you try to blast me?!” “Me?!” Wanda let out a furious laugh.
“I initiated it?
How is that even possib—” The retort died in her throat as the blurry fragments of last night suddenly snapped into sharp focus.
In her mind’s eye, she saw herself pulling Holden down into the car.
And as for everything that happened after…
she had practically been the one calling the shots.
Instantly, her face burned crimson, a wave of scorching heat rushing to her cheeks.
‘I…
I shouldn’t have drank that much malt liquor!’ “I mean, sure, it was my first time too, but I was still fully prepared to take responsibility like a real man,” Holden continued, perfectly acting the part of a wronged puppy.
“But after the way you treated me, you have to take responsibility for me!” ‘Well, technically it’s my first time sleeping with a superhero,’ he added silently to himself.
He’d certainly never had an experience quite this thrilling before.
Calling it merely ‘wet’ wouldn’t even begin to do it justice.
Just thinking about it made him subconsciously lick his lips.
“Like hell it was your first time!” Wanda rolled her eyes impatiently, fighting through the soreness in her lower half with a small pout.
She refused to believe anyone could be that experienced—and make her feel that good—on their first try!
Sure, she had been a virgin before last night, but she wasn’t an idiot!
Just remembering his technique made her face flush so hard it felt like it was bleeding.
But the flash of anger quickly gave way to a wave of overwhelming misery.
The Crossbones incident had already turned her into public enemy number one, which was agonizing enough on its own.
She had only wanted to numb the pain with a little alcohol, but instead, it snowballed into this massive mess.
The more she thought about it, the dimmer her eyes became.
“So, you’re saying you aren’t going to take responsibility for me?” Holden acutely noticed the shift in her mood, but he didn’t drop his playful act.
“I…” That instantly pulled Wanda out of her depressive spiral.
She bit her lip in distress, her eyes rimmed with red and glistening with moisture.
She looked completely flustered, shy, and unfairly charming all at once.
“Fine!” Holden teased.
“Then I’ll just call Mr.
Tony Stark right now and tell him exactly what you did to me!” All the color instantly drained from Wanda’s face.
If he actually told Tony Stark about this, she would become the laughingstock of the entire Avengers team!
But before she could even protest, Holden was already pulling his phone out of his pocket.
In that agonizing second of panic, Wanda made a desperate choice.
She extended her right hand, sending a wisp of scarlet magic directly into Holden’s temple.
The next moment, Holden froze in place, his phone hovering in his hand.
‘I’ll just…
I have to wipe his memory.’ It was a deeply conflicted decision.
She knew she would never be able to forget what happened between them, not for the rest of her life.
But right now, erasing his mind was the only way out of this impossible situation.
She let out a long breath, casting all her chaotic thoughts aside, and plunged her consciousness straight into Holden’s mindscape!
Whoosh!
What greeted her was a massive, fiery phoenix.
Blazing light shot into the heavens, turning the white clouds into a boiling sea of crimson fire.
An unimaginably terrifying pressure radiated from the cosmic entity.
‘This is his mindscape?!’ Wanda stared in pure awe.
The phoenix was overwhelmingly powerful, radiating an aura of total destruction that felt like it could swallow the universe whole.
And yet…
strangely, it felt familiar.
It gave her a deep sense of security.
To be exact, after touching Holden’s mind so intimately, she felt an intense, comforting connection to him, like running into a long-lost friend.
Just looking at him now filled her with a desperate urge to get closer.
‘Is it because of the phoenix?’ “What are you doing?” Suddenly, the “frozen” Holden casually raised his hand and wrapped his fingers gently around Wanda’s pale wrist.
“You…” Wanda’s pupils trembled violently.
‘That’s impossible!’ Her mind control was strong enough to put the Asgardian God of Thunder under a spell.
How could a normal Earthling just shrug it off?!
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