400 Horsepower of the Apocalypse by Erica Lindquist & Aron Christensen

Author:Erica Lindquist & Aron Christensen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781643190525
Publisher: Loose Leaf Stories

Clothes were a good idea if we needed to run, so I went to bed in another one of Leo’s oversized t-shirts. At least, oversized on me – they seemed to fit Leo just fine.

It had been another long, screwed-up and exhausting day, and I expected to fall instantly down into apocalyptic dreams… But I laid in the huge king-sized bed, staring at the hotel room ceiling as Leo tossed and turned just a couple feet away. He mumbled in Spanish and I didn’t catch most of it. But no means no in any language, so I understood that much. Leo called out Carlos’ name a few times, too.

I clutched the covers up under my chin. I wished that I could scoot over and wrap my arms around Leo. Not because having my hands all over the big, well-muscled biker sounded like fun – although it did – but because I remembered Pestilence’s horrible wasp-voice telling Leo that he was weak on his own. Was that true?

I didn’t know a whole lot about motorcycle gangs – I was more interested in the machines than the culture – but I knew that road captain wasn’t a position they handed out on a whim, especially to a guy as young as Leo. If the Knights of Hell had followed him, it was because they trusted Leo, because they could rely on him. I remembered how much Leo had wanted to get back to his friends, and how it crushed him to see what Pestilence had done to them.

For all of the big scary biker thing that Leo had going on, he didn’t seem to do particularly well on his own. Rather like the horsemen and archangels, actually. They were stronger together. But with the Knights dead, Leo was a wolf without a pack, and he was lost alone.

At least Leo still had his uncle. Even without me riding be­hind him and being an almost literal angel on his shoulder, I guessed that Leo would have driven straight for San Diego. He was desperate to reach Carlos.

In his sleep, Leo snarled something that I didn’t understand, and just about kicked the blankets off the bed. I wished that I could help him sleep better, but couldn’t think of any way to do that.

So I just waited. Eventually, Leo quieted and settled into a deeper slumber. I let out a long sigh of relief. Finally… We both needed rest and I hoped that after a good night of sleep in a big, comfortable bed, we would have the energy to deal with all of this shit tomorrow. I snuggled down into the covers beside Leo and fell quickly asleep.

And then woke up with Leo’s hands locked tight around my throat.

Uriel! I shouted frantically.

I couldn’t get the actual word out through Leo’s grip. He was on top of me in the bed, looming over me with his long fingers wrapped around my trachea. My vision was going swiftly gray at the edges and swam with little bursts of red light.

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