Blood Roses by Pryor Lindsay J

Author:Pryor, Lindsay J. [Pryor, Lindsay J.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Paranormal, Fiction
ISBN: 1909490032
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2013-04-23T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Caleb locked his bedroom door and slipped the key into his back pocket.

‘You stay away from that room, you understand me?’

Jake nodded.

Caleb crossed the room, behind the table and to the bookcases that lined the back wall. He pulled out two of the books, and reached inside the gap. Immediately the whole bookcase slid back to reveal the dark recess behind.

‘How long will you be?’ Jake asked.

‘A couple of hours, maybe three,’ he said as he stepped into the darkness. He glanced over his shoulder. ‘You stay in the penthouse, okay? I’ll come and see you as soon as I’m back.’

Jake nodded. ‘I’ll wait in the lounge.’

Caleb crossed the tiny recess and opened the door that led into the depths of the building. He descended the rusted spiral staircase into the lengthy corridor below. The way ahead was lit only by weak sunlight breaking through cracks in the boarded-up windows, igniting the dust, flashing neon lights splintering onto the concrete.

The weaving corridor led him through several cellars, each hanging heavy with an unearthly silence – a silence Caleb had always found comforting until then. Some of buildings he owned, some he rented, some were derelict. But in total they covered just under a mile before he pulled back the exit doors and emerged into the back alley.

The storm had passed, but fortunately the dense sky still muted the sun. He pulled up his hood, tucked his hands deep into the front pocket of his hoodie, and marched on ahead through the washed-out alleys.

It was forty-five minutes to her place. Most of the journey he could navigate by the back alleys, a suicide mission for most, but no concern for him other than the prospect of being temporarily slowed down by a couple of chancers looking for trouble.

The journey felt like a trudge because of the urgency to get there. The urgency to know the truth.

He should have been relieved at the prospect of proving himself right, but it left him unsettled. Because, even though resentment seared through his veins, he knew hurting her wasn’t going to be as easy as it would have been a few hours before – before he knew she had saved Jake.

She’d got to him. She’d got further inside him than anyone had in a long time. And that only added to his anger at her potential deceit.

He turned down a row of terraced Victorian houses, keeping to the shade of the trees as much as possible as he made his way along the windswept street. Arriving at her house, he stopped and pushed the creaking cast-iron gate open. He made his way up the short winding path and strode up the familiar stone steps to the porch. He stepped inside and knocked on the heavy green door. He took a couple of steps back down, checked the cellar window, and then scanned the other three floors before ducking back under the safety of the porch as he stared back out at the street.

It didn’t take her long to answer.

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