Before These Wings (Wings Book 1) by Wendy Knight

Author:Wendy Knight
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Six Inch Heel Press
Published: 2017-11-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

THE PYS COULDN’T FIND them. Cole heard them yelling for Phoenyx in the dead of night while they were trying to sleep. He saw Phoenyx at the window, watching them search.

And then they attacked the neighborhood.

House after house fell under their fires. Phoenyx held her fist to her mouth, and Enika buried her face in her hands, and they stayed frozen like that for hours. Those men who had watched Cole’s house burn earlier now died in their own. Metallic blue flames devoured everything, jumping from house to tree to sheds to the next house, over and over again.

“Will it get to us?” Enika asked through her fingers.

Phoenyx shook her head, and when she realized Enika couldn’t see her, she lowered her fist. “No. We’re across the highway and the wind is blowing the wrong way. Unless the Pys think to look here.”

Cole searched the skies, but the metallic glint of their wings was nowhere to be seen.

“Will it—will it get our old house?” Enika asked in a small voice.

Cole studied the fire, the layout. He couldn’t see his old house from where they stood, but there was a chance, with the road running parallel to the fire, that his house would be protected. “I don’t think so.”

Phoenyx swallowed. “Red eyes,” she whispered.

Cole jerked his gaze back to the streets. The heat had drawn the Garce, and they prowled through the streets like giant, overgrown hell hounds.

“Should we go to the roof?” Enika whispered. The Garce were across the highway and several streets away, but the slightest sound could draw their attention.

“No. Not yet.” Phoenyx narrowed her eyes, and at first Cole thought she was trying to see better. It took him several seconds to remember that Phoenyx had perfect vision. She wasn’t squinting. She was angry.

Phoenyx had always been hot-headed. She did stupid things when she was angry. He was about to ask what she was thinking when the Pys returned, shooting through the night sky like comets, and he wondered if all those times they thought they were watching shooting stars, they were actually watching Pys. Coming to destroy them all.

They attacked the Garce, their blood balls embedding in the shadowy skin before the Garce even realized they were there. Akit landed next to one and bared her fangs. Just like in every vampire movie Cole had ever seen, she latched onto the Garce and drank.

Aylin wasn’t so delicate. She tore into one with her claws, feasting on its flesh while blood, inky and thick, spilled around her, soaking the pure white snow.

Enika gagged and spun away. Phoenyx had gone pure white and looked like she, too, wanted to throw up, but couldn’t tear her eyes from the chaos below them. “Why’d they kill the Garce now? They haven’t killed us yet.”

Cole shook his head. “They’re starving. Look at the way they eat.”

“Maybe they just have no table manners.” At any other time, it would have been funny. But Phoenyx didn’t even crack a smile. She finally nodded.

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