Battle Scars by Sheryl Nantus

Author:Sheryl Nantus [Nantus, Sheryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 18043474
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2013-10-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The couch was bumpy and moving and I was sitting up again, my head bouncing against a pillow. My back was twisted and bent and my feet vibrating to a steady rhythm.

This was not right.

I forced my eyes open to find myself propped up in the passenger seat of my Jeep as we roared down the highway, a pillow offering scant neck support.

Bran risked a glance over before returning his attention to the traffic around us. “There’s a soda in the cup holder. Figured you’d need the caffeine and I know you hate cold tea.”

I fumbled for the cool can and pressed it to my forehead before pulling the tab and taking a sip.

The scenery was familiar, rolling farmland spotted with housing developments every once in a while, breaking up the wilderness.

We were headed north, out of the city.

Bran kept his eyes on the road. “I called Jess and told her we were on our way.” Before I could speak he put up one hand. “Don’t even try and argue this one with me. Those bastards came into our home, invaded our space. If I hadn’t come home when I did God knows what would have happened, what those two could have done to you there, alone.”

I started to say something but didn’t get past a peep before he continued.

“You’ve got those kids someplace safe but we are not going to sit around and wait for them to attack you again. I got lucky but that’s not going to happen again.”

I couldn’t dispute his findings. He’d gotten the jump on Nathan once and that’d been a fluke. He’d slammed Eddie in the middle of a scuffle when the enforcer hadn’t been prepared to fight a human.

They wouldn’t let him do it again. They weren’t going to stop until they got the kids.

I closed my eyes and ran through my options, fighting the urge to fall asleep again. There weren’t many and none that included me being at half-strength.

“Okay. What did Jess say?” I sat up straighter and sipped the drink, feeling a bit more alive as the caffeine started to kick in.

“She asked where you were, what was going on and then berated me for taking so long to call.” Bran chuckled. “She said she’d have some brekka for us when we arrived.”

I rubbed my eyes and looked at the dashboard clock. It was approaching noon—I’d lost a few hours of straight sleep somewhere between the couch and the Jeep.

“I took a bit of a roundabout route,” Bran said, almost apologetic. The average drive to the farm took two hours and if we’d left not long after dealing with the Felis enforcers we’d have been there a good hour ago. “Ducked down along the Lakeshore and headed west to Oakville before circling back. It may not stop them from tracking us but at least they’ll have to work for it.” He tapped the dashboard. “Good gas mileage as well. They’re more likely to run out before we will.

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