Bad Blood by LA Banks

Author:LA Banks [Banks, LA]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Horror & Ghost Stories
Published: 2010-05-17T07:00:00+00:00

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werewolf virus. His blood was supposed to reject it, but did a lab-made shadow wolf have immunity? He didn't know.

"Risk that you might shoot me," he finally said after the long pause needed to gather his words. "Risk that I might just fall in love with you and forget some of what I'm destined to do."

He allowed his palm to drop away from her face, and he gripped the steering wheel with both hands. She looked away slowly as though dazed. Good. He'd hoped what he'd said would turn the course of the conversation.

The thing that scared him shitless was that it was the truth. CHAPTER 8

They rode the rest of the way in silence.

She watched Hunter turn off the primary forest road to an unpaved, gravel-pitted one covered by ice and snow that soon gave way to true four-by-four territory. After what seemed like forever, he brought the truck to a desolate area within a stand of tall trees next to a tiny cabin. He said nothing as he studied the area for a moment and then drove slowly to what seemed like snow-covered underbrush, opened the door, and jumped down out of the truck. Thoroughly intrigued, she watched him uncover a blind large enough to hide the truck and then slowly return to drive them into the dark enclosure.

"You've done this before, I take it?" she said, getting out as he unloaded their backpacked supplies onto a snowmobile with a small carrier rack attached to it. He didn't respond, just continued to conceal the truck.

"Should I be worried?"

"Not if it snows good and hard before morning," he said, bringing the snowmobile out to the bumpy road area.

"Why are we hiding?" She wrapped her arms around herself and waited.

"Why were you under surveillance?" He stared at her without blinking.

"I don't know," she finally said. "Maybe they think I've got what Rod has… had."

"Then I don't know why we're hiding. But right now it feels like I'm traveling with a military fugitive. So taking precautionary measures seems prudent. Aren't those the guys that have missiles, if pissed off?"

Unable to argue the point, she unfolded her arms and walked forward, climbing into the snowmobile beside him.

"I just have one question. How is this whole shadow group or whatever you call it funded?"

He placed his hand on the ignition key, but didn't turn it, and glared at her. "The tribal casinos have a secret, off-the-books fund for this. Call it investment protection of their territories."

"Oh." She looked off into the woods.

"Any more questions?"

"Not right now," she said, lifting her chin. "Just wanted to be sure that drugs or something like the illegal sale of arms or technology to other nations wasn't funding this." She turned to issue him a pointed look.

"Shouldn't we be working together instead of fighting each other? We're not that different, and our objectives are the same."

"Oh… we're different."

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