2nd Cycle of the Harbinger Series Collection by Carolyn McCray

Author:Carolyn McCray [McCray, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Retail, Thriller
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Published: 2014-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

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DEVIOUS – The prequel short story to 9th Circle

PROLOGUE

The sun had set long, long ago.

The streets of Seattle became a very different place when it was dark. Let’s be honest, even during the day, things had a tendency to be a bit bleak in the Pacific Northwest. But after dark, things got downright creepy.

A light drizzle, nothing more than a clear late summer night for anyone who had grown up here, weighed down Abby’s bleach-blonde hair. She had not grown up here. For her, this much precipitation was the rough equivalent of a downpour. Phoenix, Arizona wasn’t known for its abundant annual rainfall.

How she had ended up here she knew very well, but couldn’t believe to this day. A guy. It was always a guy, wasn’t it? A boy and his band, wanting to test the waters in a bigger city, but without the balls to head to Vegas or L.A. She should’ve known then.

Now, a year and a half later, the band had broken up, and the boyfriend had headed out somewhere for parts unknown. And Abby? Abby was stuck in a lease with a job that paid just well enough that she didn’t want to leave it, but not well enough for her to ever really get ahead.

Tonight was the first night she had gone out on her own since the breakup three months ago. She’d grabbed a couple of the girls from work and jetted down to the Foundation Nightclub, a local hotspot just a couple of blocks away from Pike Place Market.

It was a little touristy, sure, but Abby was still new enough to Seattle that being a tourist was okay by her. The drinks were expensive, but she didn’t normally have to worry too much about that. And the guys there were a bit more upscale than her grungy ex.

But after both of her friends had gotten picked up and it had started getting late, Abby had decided to head home. Drinking alone in a bar just felt way too pathetic.

The problem with that? Abby couldn’t remember where she had parked. Maybe that last cosmopolitan had been a bad idea. She would’ve hailed a cab and come back for her VW bug tomorrow, but in looking for the parking lot where she’d left it, she’d entered into some much narrower streets that were pretty quiet, even for this area. There wasn’t a cab anywhere in sight.

She pulled off her heels, feeling the wet cool of the sidewalk soothe her aching feet. Going out on a Friday after work always sounded like such a great idea, but man, was she beat. Next time she planned an outing with the girls, it would be on a Saturday. And the girls would be ones who wouldn’t abandon her at the first sign of a smile from a cute guy.

Whatever. She was over it.

Now that the clatter of her own heels wasn’t ringing in her ears, Abby could’ve sworn she heard something.

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