Aberrant Monsters (New Blood: Eldritch Blues Book 1) by Debbie Cassidy

Author:Debbie Cassidy [Cassidy, Debbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-02-18T05:00:00+00:00

I tracked the echo back onto the streets, watching it skid to a stop on the pavement, bounce off the lamppost, and then head across the street to the pawn shop next to Real Deal. It pressed itself to the window. Was it studying its own reflection? It reared back and scrambled away toward the Underbelly gates.

Shit, shit, shit.

I ran after it, not wanting to lose it. If I lost it, finding it would become ten times harder. I needed to complete this task to get the location to the rift where my mother was killed. I couldn’t let this fucker slip away.

I picked up speed, singularly focused on the echo.

The blare of a horn followed by a scream registered like distant warnings.

Stop! Telarion’s voice filled my head, the command locking my knees and bringing me to a halt in time to avoid stepping into the path of a car.

The vehicle whizzed past, leaving me frozen, heart slamming against my ribs like a prisoner desperate to escape.

“What the fuck?” Nandi grabbed my arm. “Are you trying to get yourself squished.”

Where was it? Where the fuck did it go? “Dammit!” I turned away, hands on my hips. “I lost it.” I wanted to scream.

“You almost lost your life,” Nandi yelled.

I pulled my arm free of her grip. “Telarion would have healed me.”

“If you haven’t noticed, we’re several hours from sundown,” Nandi said. “You would have died first.” She turned me to face her. “What the hell is wrong with you?”

What was wrong with me? I had less than three months before I turned into a monster and there was nothing I could do about that but hope and pray the Order could help me. In the meantime, I desperately needed to solve my mother’s murder. I wanted to end the fucker who’d taken her from me before…before I lost myself to the changes happening to me.

But all those words, all those emotions remained trapped in my head, swirling like a vortex, so when I opened my mouth to respond to Nandi, all that came out was “Are you fucking serious right now?”

She flinched like I’d struck her. “Fuck you, August.”

She strode away.

Shit.

“Not cool, babe,” Archie said before going after her.

I remained at the side of the road for a moment longer, hands on hips, letting the urgency swirling inside my stomach die down.

I’d almost been hit by a car.

Nandi was right. I needed to pull it together. I wasn’t going to make it three months otherwise.

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