A Shade of Vampire 28 by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-03T23:00:00+00:00

Grace

“Take that as a lesson not to feed people around here,” Maura said to me as we marched on through the rain, away from the church.

“When people get this desperate, they’re like wild animals,” Orlando explained in a low tone.

Still feeling shaken by the ordeal, I tried to turn my thoughts to other matters. Lake Michigan. A phone. I’d had enough of all of this. I just wanted out of this nightmare. Oh, how I wished that it really was all a bad dream. My chest ached as I thought of home. The Shade. My beautiful, safe island. My family. My friends. I felt like an idiot for ever leaving… and yet I hadn’t been able to fight the urge. Once I had gotten a whiff of Lawrence and Georgina’s mystery, I’d just had to follow the trail.

They don’t say curiosity killed the cat for no reason, I thought to myself, grinding my teeth. What a stupid, stupid cat I am.

All of us fell silent for the next hour as we continued through the city. We passed a few more small groups of Bloodless—about three or four at a time—which weren’t too strenuous to get rid of, thanks to Orlando’s trusty wheel. I could still hear helicopters overhead, but this part of the city had more trees, and I was less concerned about being spotted from the air. Orlando kept stopping every now and then to consult the map to verify we weren’t traveling off course.

When he estimated we had about thirty minutes left before approaching the IBSI’s fences that bordered the shore, we all stopped short. My worst fears came to pass at the end of a long boulevard.

Tanks. IBSI tanks.

They were positioned at the cross section of our road and the next. And there were hunters out of the vehicles—covered in armor and carrying heavy weapons. My heart was in my throat as we leapt behind a tree to hide. I prayed that none of them had spotted us… or detected us.

Oh, no. Orlando had warned me already of the dangers.

So far we’d had to deal with our fair share of Bloodless, but had been lucky enough to not be targeted by any gangs. But now… these guys. I would take the gangs any day over these men.

“What do you think they are doing?” Maura breathed so quietly, I could barely hear her.

Orlando shrugged. “This area by the shore is always more populated with IBSI members. Should hardly be a surprise to come across them now.”

We peered out cautiously through the leaves of the low-hanging branches. We could see more from this angle, low to the ground, than when we had been standing on the sidewalk. I spotted about ten hunters gathered in the middle of the road—they were easy to recognize, because they all wore the same thing… but now I spotted one other man, too, who wasn’t dressed in uniform. He was dressed in worn, mismatched clothing, the type that Maura and Orlando sported.

“Oh.” Orlando let out a breath.

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