Blood Arrow: The Forest Hood Series Book One by Lela Grayce & Eryn Brooks

Author:Lela Grayce & Eryn Brooks [Grayce, Lela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-11-22T06:00:00+00:00

It’s a funny thing, dreams. Sometimes even in the middle of a dream I’m aware that I’m dreaming, and other times it seems so real that when I wake up, it takes a little while to realize it’s not a dream. Often the weirder the dream, the easier it is to determine between reality and dream. Last night’s dreams were very weird.

I rolled onto my back and stretched my hands above my head as I woke up, or at least I tried to. My hands didn’t seem to quite want to obey. I must have slept on them wrong. I rested an extra minute, allowing my hands time to wake up, and I heard a scuffle to the right of me, then feet pattering away.

“Brex?” I asked blearily. I turned to look for her, but instead saw … that I was in a cave? I looked at my hands and realized they were cuffed together. with my eyes I followed the chain connected them to a ring driven into the rock beside where I lay on the ground. What the…?

I sat up quickly, heart pounding, taking stock of my surroundings and trying to remember what had happened last night. I gasped, and like an arrow to the heart realized that my dreams last night were – reality. Not dreams.

“No!” I cried, heart breaking as I remembered everything that happened. My memories pummeled me from every side. “William!” He wasn’t in the cave with me.

I relived the excruciating moment when that monster bit into him, tearing at his flesh. I knew what it meant. He was now a beast - infected by Captain Rekker, and I hadn’t been able to stop it. I rubbed my chest, trying to stop the ache in my heart.

I failed.

I failed to protect him, and now we were both in the hands of Captain Rekker and his pack of wild creatures. I grabbed at my chest, trying to press against the gaping hole that used to be my heart as heaving sobs threatened to tear my body apart. I felt a chasm where my heart was, and with each memory from last night, the chasm grew wider. I knew I needed to be strong, but the chasm was too deep. Just for this moment, this one small moment, I needed to let loose the emotions that were destroying my soul before I fell into the depth of nothingness at my feet. I needed to break. And then I could be strong again.

After several moments that could have been minutes, I took a deep breath and curled my fists. I had my cry, now I needed a plan to get out of here, starting with my cuffs. Next, I’d find Will and get us out of here.

“Arrow.”

I turned to the deep voice of Little John as shock stilled my body. “Little John? How are you here?”

“Tuck and I followed you from the Inn,” he said brusquely. “Are you alright? I had a lad fetch me the moment you woke up.

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