A Hunter's Challenge [The Hunters 3] (Siren Publishing Allure) by Suzy Shearer

Author:Suzy Shearer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2015-03-22T16:00:00+00:00

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“Martin! Get here, how far away are you?”

“What’s up?”

“I’ve found a lair, I think it’s being used. It seems empty but I don’t want to enter it yet in case the strigoi returns soon.”

“Okay. I’m coming, I’m about forty minutes away.”

“Be careful.”

Anthan perched in a large eucalypt overlooking the lair. The stench was almost unbearable. There was a decomposing body lying just outside the entrance. Anthan felt such sadness when he’d found it. He was pleased that this lair looked as if it was recently used. Maybe now they could clear out this area of strigoi and get back to their mates.

“What did you find?” Martin settled alongside him, folding his wings and looking down. “Man does that stink!”

“I know. I think there may be more bodies inside. I make it about twenty minutes till sunrise.”

“Me, too. We wait.”

The two Hunters sat quietly disguised as owls, waiting for the strigoi’s return. The twenty minutes seemed to go so slowly. Then the first light of the sun touched the top of the tree they had roosted in.

“Fuck!”

Anthan flew to the ground and transformed. Martin landed alongside him transforming also.

“This is fucking crazy, Anthan! The bloody thing seems to be one step ahead of us all the time.”

Anthan picked up a large dusty rock and threw it hard against the rocky face of the lair in frustration. He shook his head then walked inside with Martin beside him.

The stench inside was twice as bad. There were several decomposing bodies thrown about haphazardly.

“We’ll need to take these somewhere so they can be found.”

“Do you want to do that now or do we leave them and hope it returns?”

“I say we take them. If it’s gone to another lair, I doubt it will be back to this one for a while. Tonight we can check those other two. Hopefully we find it in one of them.”

“Shame they’re so far away, we could get there before sunset and kill the fucking thing before it wakes.”

“Yeah I know. Still if we leave as early as possible tonight we might just make it.”

Anthan walked over to one of the corpses and reverently carried outside to lie beside the other. Martin picked up a third and passed Anthan walking back in.

“Think there’s one right at the back,” he told him.

“Okay.”

Anthan walked into the darkened back of the lair, his hand covering his nose. It looked as if this body had only recently died. It was a young man. Anthan bent down and picked him up sadly.

“Shit!” Anthan was so shocked he almost dropped the man.

“Martin!” he shouted. “This one’s alive, only just but I can hear a faint heartbeat.”

He carried the man outside into the light and laid him on the ground.

“How the fuck could he still be alive? Look at him, Anthan!”

The man was a mess. So many broken bones. One arm looked like it had been shredded. His face had been punched so much Anthan was sure every bone was broken.

“Damn. This is going to take some work.

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