Arise by Malone Skye

Author:Malone, Skye
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: kindle
ISBN: 1940617162
Publisher: Wildflower Isle
Published: 2015-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Wyatt

Dehaians were inside the house.

Dehaians were everywhere.

And if I didn’t get to kill at least one of them soon, I was going to go insane.

Fighting back a growl, I paced away from the front room. A trio of scum-suckers had gathered there to watch the road, and their proximity was making me twitch. They didn’t seem to know what we were – an ignorance that would’ve been a pleasure to dispel if not for Dad forbidding us from coming near them. He wanted their help containing that Zeke guy if he tried to escape, and I’d nearly ended up with a broken rib for insisting we could take care of the scale-skin bastard ourselves.

It was insulting. We were working with fish. Fish. And sure, Dad promised we’d throw them all in the basement and kill them nice and slow once the guy was dead, but in the meantime…

The growl threatened to come back. In the meantime, I’d spent hours being forced to pretend I was human, while carrying on like we were some grieving family all heartbroken over little Brock. Dad was the only one who didn’t seem to be having trouble with the charade, though Clay and Owen appeared pretty content to play along. Countermanding Dad never even occurred to them, and when he’d sent them both into the woods a little while ago, ordering them to keep watch, they hadn’t even tried to protest.

Dad trusted them too much. Half a dozen scale-skins had gone with each of them, and I wouldn’t gamble on the idiots resisting the urge to kill those things for more than five minutes at most.

His whole plan was ridiculous.

As usual.

I shook my head while I made my way down the hall. Past the basement door, I could hear the man and his wife still sniveling quietly. They hadn’t looked good last time I checked. Pale and shaking, they’d barely been able to pull away when I nudged them with my foot. The room stank from where one of them had thrown up at some point, and the sweat covering them just added to the stench.

The girl better get here soon. Those two wouldn’t last much longer, and while hostages were one thing, bluffing that our leverage still lived was something else entirely.

I reached the end of the hallway and paused. The back room stretched the width of the house, and most of its far wall consisted only of windows. There was almost no furniture, barring the dining table to my right and a few ragged easy chairs near the old television on my left. We rarely spent much time in here, since I preferred eating in my room and none of us cooked for each other anyway. Random discarded objects scattered the tabletop as a result – from old mail to empty dishes – most of them abandoned on trips through the room and then forgotten.

But that Niall guy was in there. Standing by the dinner table, he was watching the ocean past

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