Beneath Blood and Bone by Sheehan Madeline & Riley Claire C

Author:Sheehan, Madeline & Riley, Claire C [Sheehan, Madeline]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: dystopian romance, undeniable series, zombie apocalypse romance, thicker than blood, dystopian love story, romance, fiction science fiction romance, apocalypse fiction romance, dystopian apocalyptic, madeline sheehan
Publisher: Madeline Sheehan and Claire C Riley, via Smashwords
Published: 2015-08-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Eagle

“Squirrel, I’m only going to ask one more damn time, and then I’m going to get pissed. You tell me what the fuck happened back there!”

From her seat on the couch, curled up beneath a wool blanket despite the heat of the late afternoon, Autumn peeked up at me through several strands of hair that had fallen in front of her eyes.

At least a full hour had passed since I’d brought her home. I skinned and gutted the bird, cooked the meat, and set it aside in the safe, the coolest place in the building. Half was going to the guys at the garage, and the other half was for Autumn and me, only she hadn’t mentioned being hungry. In fact, she still had yet to speak.

Fucking Liv. I’d known she wasn’t going to take this lightly. Maybe part of me had actually wanted her to strike out and publicly make a fool of herself, an action I’d hoped would result in Jeffers seeing her for what she really was.

Needless to say, it wasn’t a well-thought-out plan. Not that anything that had happened since finding Autumn bleeding in the field had been well thought out, or could even be considered an actual plan. More like the blind leading the blind over a bridge riddled with cracks and gaping holes.

Aw, the voice mocked me. So Adler’s carefully constructed life is falling apart?

My nostrils flaring, I breathed in hard and released it slowly, repeating the action several times until my head was finally quiet again.

“She told me you were there,” Autumn said, her voice flat. “She said you were at the pits.”

Clenching my teeth and closing my eyes, I shook my head and prayed for calm. It would do neither of us any good if I lost my cool right now. She was already upset, and I needed to hear the rest of the story so I could figure out what could be done about it.

“She’s a liar,” I gritted out as I opened my eyes. “You can’t ever believe a damn word that insane bitch says.”

“So you don’t . . . like her?”

I shot up off the table I was leaning against and glared at Autumn. “No, I do not fucking like her. I tolerate her because I have to. But if I could, I’d rip her fucking cold, dead heart straight from her chest.”

Autumn’s forehead wrinkled. “So you’re not . . . um . . . friends?”

Could I glare any harder at this dense female? “No, we’re not friends.”

Still, Autumn looked confused. “But she said you were, she said you . . . she said she pleased . . .” She stopped and bit her lip, her pale face flushed with color.

At first, I didn’t have a goddamn clue in hell what she was babbling about, at least not until she started blushing. And it wasn’t just any old blush; it was a full-on color infusion from her neck to her forehead. The girl looked downright humiliated.

Under any other

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