Blood Winter by Diana Pharaoh Francis

Author:Diana Pharaoh Francis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

SHE IS ALIVE. SHE IS ALIVE.

Alexander silently chanted the words like a spell. They were all that was keeping him contained while Thor drove slowly through the night.

“We’ll have to talk to Giselle about adding a snowplow to this truck,” the other man muttered with a sidelong view at Alexander.

Alexander did not answer, his fingers drumming his thighs.

“Giselle said she was okay,” Thor tried again. “You’d know different. Wouldn’t you?”

Alexander jerked his head in a nod. “Yes.” But it was not enough to know. He needed more than that. He needed to touch her, to wrap himself around her and feel her heart beat against his. He needed to feel her breath move her ribs and taste her fire on his lips.

“Well, okay, then. You can let the whole beast-outta-hell act slide now,” Thor said. The words were careful, questioning. One did not mess around with Alexander in this mood.

His jaw knotted. He drew in a deep breath, letting it out slowly. “I am trying,” he grated.

Thor sucked his teeth, then spit out the open window. “Driving with you is like driving with a family of pissed-off porcupines,” he said mournfully. “Wish I could get drunk. Hell, I wish you could get drunk.”

That won him a smile. “I wish you would stop driving like a blue-haired old lady going to Sunday church,” Alexander shot back.

“If I go any faster, I’m going to drive us into a fairy circle or take us off a cliff. Slow and steady keeps us all alive and in our own skins. Got any idea what Max would do to me if I got you hurt or killed because I was driving too fast?” He whistled low and shook his head, pushing his battered cowboy hat back on his head. “That’s one horror movie I have no intention of starring in, boss,” he drawled.

“I might just have a role for you in mine,” Alexander growled back.

Thor just grinned. “You’re scary, but you’ve got nothing on Max. She’s in a class of terrifying all her own.”

Alexander grunted and said no more. Instead, he eyed his phone on the dash. She had not called him. She had nearly died twice and had not bothered to call him either time.

Thor took the Orange Street exit. It was coming up on nine, nearly an hour later than they had planned to get back to Missoula. Alexander was opening and closing his fists, impatience spurring him mercilessly. He could see Max’s spirit flame and those of Tyler and Gregory. They had gone south of the river and were now angling back to the northwest. They must have picked up Sterling’s trail. Knowing Max, she would confront the bastard and get herself killed for her trouble.

He made a sound deep in his throat, his teeth grinding together.

“Almost there,” Thor said soothingly.

The truck nosed down under the freeway, and Thor pulled off on the side. “Snow’s too deep,” he said at Alexander’s questioning glare. “Gonna have to go on foot.”

Alexander shoved open his door.

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