Black Ice (Black Records Book 3) by Alexis Blakely

Author:Alexis Blakely [Blakely, Alexis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Once out of the woods and back at the construction site, Nicola refused to leave her dad’s Porsche sitting overnight so I relented and let her drive it home. The ride was almost more terrifying than having to outrun an avalanche on snowboards. Nicola drove quickly, jerking the wheel through turns instead of accelerating smoothly like Chase usually did. Until that moment, I’d never understood what people meant when they complained about dropping the clutch or grinding gears on a manual transmission. The car made a horrendous grinding screech whenever she tried to ram the shifter into the next gear, followed by lurch that made the car jump like a scared rabbit. I could only imagine how pissed off her dad would be if he knew his baby was being driven so roughly, but I supposed that was the point behind Nicola taking it out in the first place. One of these days I was really going to have to do something about that lack of a driver’s license so I could avoid situations like this.

Horrified by the sight of us when we stumbled through the front door, Ada helped drag Nicola upstairs to her bedroom. She then fetched a first aid kit, hovering around me until I assured her I had everything under control. Since it had been dark before we’d made it to the car, I couldn’t get a proper look at Nicola’s injuries until she began stripping off layers of heavy winter clothing. The wounds on her hand weren’t as bad as I’d feared, but the lacerations around the rest of her body were another story. Several of the creatures had chewed or torn their way through her clothing, leaving her arms and legs covered in gashes and crescent-shaped bite marks. Most were superficial, but a few had cut deep enough to be worrisome. I hadn’t yet checked myself out, but I had a feeling it hadn’t fared much better. I could feel the angry sting of several cuts, and blood dripped down my legs beneath the shredded remains of my snow pants. That could wait. My priority was ensuring Nicola was cared for.

Ada did what she could, then hovered while I finished dabbing burn ointment on Nicola’s palm and set to work cleaning the worst of the cuts crisscrossing her body. Eventually, I convinced her to go downstairs to see about getting us something to eat. Ada knew, or at least suspected, more than most people when it came to the existence of magic, but there were some specific things Nicola and I needed to discuss that Ada probably wasn’t ready to hear just yet.

“I guess it’s time we had that talk about what happened back there, huh?” I asked while dabbing antiseptic on one particularly bad slice across her bicep.

Nicola blanched, the blood draining from her face as she winced in pain. She turned her head away from me to hide tears dripping down her cheeks. I didn’t blame her one bit. The antiseptic must have stung like bloody murder.

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