Awaken the Darkness by Dianne Duvall

Author:Dianne Duvall [Duvall, Dianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2018-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

Susan left shortly thereafter to take Jax to Anna’s. She told her former neighbor the same thing she’d told Henry—that she was going out of town, couldn’t take Jax with her, and was reluctant to board him in a kennel. Anna was a real sweetheart, instantly offering to keep Jax for her and warning she just might spoil him so much that he wouldn’t want to go home again when Susan returned. Susan hated to lie to her friend but couldn’t very well tell her she needed to get Jax out of the house because she’d found a man with remarkable abilities buried in her basement and the two of them were preparing to combat those who had put him there.

Just thinking about the upcoming confrontation made her stomach flutter with nerves. She couldn’t stop remembering the men Ted had introduced her to. The things she had seen in their minds. The experiments they had wanted to perform on her. The way they had tortured that other woman.

If the men who were after Stanislav were in league with whoever had buried him in her basement, they were likely just as bad. Only a monster would have wounded him so severely, then buried him and left him to die or—if they’d believed he wouldn’t die—left him to suffer like that. No food. No water. Only the pain of his injuries to keep him company.

Men like that would kill Stanislav if he didn’t cooperate.

Men like that would take him by force and kill her if she tried to stop them.

Why did people have to be so fucked up when it came to those who were different from them? If that weren’t the case, she and Stanislav could go to the police and wouldn’t have to deal with this themselves. They wouldn’t have to risk everything to protect themselves and learn the truth. Because she just didn’t foresee this going well and doubted Stanislav did either. He wouldn’t have asked her to stay away if he’d thought it would be easy.

Susan made a couple of stops on the way home and loaded up on groceries. As she pulled into her driveway, she glanced at the bag on the passenger seat and felt dread pool inside her.

The sun began to make its descent, dipping behind the trees and painting the clouds above with shades of pink and peach.

Stanislav stepped out onto the front porch as she cut the engine.

The dread in her stomach vanished. Not as a result of any manipulation on Stanislav’s part this time but because she was simply happy to see him. Her heart swelled. Something about finding him waiting for her when she got home—a soft smile lighting his handsome features as he descended the steps and strolled toward her, as sleek and graceful as a panther—made her wish for things she shouldn’t even be thinking about, not while he still had no memory.

She opened her door.

Stanislav offered his hand while she grabbed her keys and exited the small vehicle.

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