Abandoned (Book Two of the Castle Coven Series): A Witch and Warlock Romance Novel by Hazel Hunter

Author:Hazel Hunter [Hunter, Hazel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allure Press
Published: 2015-06-04T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

IN THE FOREST far below, the thing paced with trackless, barbed feet. It could smell prey above, but it could not catch it, not today. They were nested high above, and it was on foot. Perhaps it would not always be such. Perhaps it would not always be confined as it was.

The thing reared up anyway, and the ancient weight of the pine tree shook under its bulk. It sniffed delicately. There was fear in the pine. Something distant and old. The animals had long since fled the immediate area, dreading the thing’s smell and its power. All that was left were the trees, which were rooted in place. Plants communicated with each other however, releasing simple pheromones that translated to even simpler messages.

The thing was an expert at fear, and these woods were afraid.

The thing dropped to the ground again. There were other scents in the forest. There were other things that could be found. Could be taken, could be eaten. The thing’s head came up to sniff the night air.

The body that it inhabited was that of a bear, a large and shaggy grizzly that had recently been delivered of a pair of pink naked cubs. The cubs were dead. Though the bear’s heart still beat, the warm memories of those cubs, of milk, of the darkness of the den, were only shadows haunting the domed skull.

There was a fresh scent on the air, and the thing cataloged the information that the bear brain gave it. There was fire and metal. There was the smell of meat being cooked. There was the smell of a man’s body. There was something else that the bear had no name and no use for, but the thing knew it quite well indeed.

It was hate.

The bear’s face could not grin, but the thing made it do so anyway.

Perhaps there would be better quarry than the bear today. Perhaps not all the prey would be so clever to hide in tall nests.

Dropping down to four rotting paws, the thing lumbered into the night, each step cursing the ground as it went.

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