Bayou Fairy Tale by Lex Chase

Author:Lex Chase
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 9781627984997
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2015-10-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15: Whip Your Hair

May 7

Fort St. Philip, Plaquemines Parish

TAYLOR DIDN’T know what they’d find at Fort St. Philip. As the snowmobiles sped over the mountainous packed powder, the scene was unrecognizable to locals or tourists alike.

He hung on to Corentin as they rode together. The snowmobile bounced over the buried debris, shoving Taylor against Corentin. No one wanted to think of what was underneath them. Taylor resolved to stay focused on one task at a time. Getting caught up in the overload of too many questions and too many fears didn’t do anyone good.

Ray took the lead, his snowmobile treads kicking up long sprays of snow. He turned a sharp left in front of Corentin. Taylor saw it coming and instinctually tightened his grip. With the warning, Corentin hung a sharp left and skidded across Ray’s path, barely avoiding clipping his rear.

The snowmobile’s treads scratched through the packed snow and then jerked toward its side. Corentin slammed down his foot and protected them from crashing to the ground. “What the fuck was that for?”

“Something’s wrong,” Ray grunted.

“That seems to be par for the course here lately.” Taylor coughed, strangling on the frigid air in his lungs.

Ringo popped free from Taylor’s oversized pocket and then shook himself off. He pivoted in a slow fluttering circle. “I don’t know about you, but do you hear that?”

Taylor listened, straining his ears through the silence.

“The sound of nothingness?” Ray grunted. He rubbed his hands together and then puffed a breath into them.

“Shh!” Taylor hissed sharply. He stepped off the snowmobile and gestured for Corentin to do the same. He nodded with the rhythm. “Something’s ticking.”

“Fuck me,” Ray said. “Where?”

Taylor swayed with the rhythm. “Tick, tick, tick, tick,” he counted on his fingers. “Like a metronome?”

“Or a bomb,” Ringo said as he shivered.

Taylor scissored his index and middle fingers in time with the clicks. “I swear I hear a clock.”

“On a bomb,” Ringo said.

“Ringo.” Taylor scowled at him.

“I’m not kidding.” Ringo’s nervous, reedy tone made Taylor take note. “Not kidding, not kidding, not kidding.” He pointed frantically to the underside of Ray’s snowmobile.

Taylor caught a glimpse of a nest of wires and a blinking timer. He didn’t need any more proof. He shoved Corentin away.

“Fuck, fuck, fuck,” Corentin said and got the hint. He and Taylor ran for cover.

Taylor reached for Ray, but Ray stood strong. Corentin kept his grip on Taylor’s hand; he was the faster of the two, and Taylor pushed himself to keep up. Ringo’s wings buzzed like a biplane as he zoomed over Taylor’s head and dived for cover. Corentin dragged Taylor to the ground behind a snow-covered embankment. Taylor pushed to his knees out of Corentin’s grip, and he screamed out for Ray.

Ray tore off his beanie and ran his fingers over his bald head. A thunderous boom rippled through the ground, and a blaring orange flash lit up the night sky. Golden waves of Ray’s magic hair shot from the ground and solidified into a towering, impregnable wall before the group.

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