A Shade of Vampire 25: A Clan of Novaks by Forrest Bella

Author:Forrest, Bella [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2016-04-05T05:00:00+00:00

Victoria

Bastien’s mood grew heavier and sadder as the night wore on. And I knew why. I felt worse than ever at the thought of abandoning him. But I had to remind myself that I had other responsibilities. I had my family to think about. Maybe once I managed to make it back to The Shade and reunite with them, I could persuade the League to lend a hand to the werewolves to try to lessen their plight caused by the hunters. I didn’t know how that would all work out with the governments once the hunters found out we were trying to work against them, but nobody in The Shade would stand for what was going on here. My parents wouldn’t, and my uncle, Derek, certainly wouldn’t. These thoughts were the only way I could comfort myself as we left the cave at the first signs of morning.

Gathering up the satchel and the belt, Bastien dutifully clambered down the mountainside with me on his back and re-entered the woods. The journey passed quickly this time—perhaps because I had so much on my mind. It was certainly the first time I could make such an observation since arriving in The Woodlands.

The shore came into view, another pebble beach, though much longer than the one where Bastien and his pack had their hideout. As we emerged onto it, leaving the shelter and shadows of the trees, we looked around cautiously. Bastien looked left and right, up and down the shore, while I scanned the skies for mutants. Or maybe even helicopters. God knew what else these hunters had brought through the portal.

So far, so good. The coast seemed clear. He began to run again, bolder now, along the beach.

“How do you even know about this gate?” I asked him.

“My older brother was the one to discover it,” he replied. “This one is less known to other werewolves than the one that the hunters have occupied…”

Bastien’s voice trailed off as his eyes moved further up the beach. They fixed on an area in the distance. He sped up again and then stopped after about half a mile. There appeared to be nothing different about this stretch of beach than the one we had just traversed. There were no signs of holes or indentations anywhere. I was not sure why he was stopping here…

My heart sank as he said, “The portal should be here. I swear, it’s on this stretch of beach.”

And yet there was nothing. He raced further up the beach and then further down it, along the path we had already traveled, as though he might have missed it. But we hadn’t. No portal was anywhere to be seen along this beach.

“Are you sure this is the right beach?” I asked.

“I’m positive,” Bastien said.

“Then what could’ve happened to the gate?” I breathed. “Could the hunters have… closed it?”

“Not without the help of a powerful witch,” Bastien murmured. “But maybe they do have witches at their service… That would explain a number of things.

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