Born to Darkness by Suzanne Brockmann

Author:Suzanne Brockmann [Brockmann, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Paranormal, General, Romance, Romantic Suspense Fiction, Suspense, Fiction, Romance.Fantasy & Paranormal
ISBN: 9780345521293
Google: HMuzdMzG2cgC
Amazon: B00540NVAW
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2012-03-19T13:00:00+00:00

Nika had just finished the O she was painting on the window in catsup, when she heard the sound of the door being unlocked.

She quickly pulled the curtains closed and licked her finger clean, even as she braced to defend herself from whomever might be coming in.

It was a woman, and at first glance, she looked so much like Anna, Nika’s heart soared. But it wasn’t her sister. Whoever this woman was, she was much heavier than Anna. Her face was rounder, fuller. But then Nika saw that she wasn’t quite a woman—she was still a girl. A teenager. And she wasn’t fat, she was pregnant. And even though her skin, like Anna’s and Nika’s, was mocha-colored and her hair was dark and curly, her eyes were a brilliant shade of green instead of brown.

They were also hard and cold, and with her tightly pinched mouth, she looked dangerous, despite her swollen body and her drab-colored, loose-fitting dress.

She stopped about ten feet away from Nika and said, “This is your safe room. Learn to use it to recover, replenish, recuperate, and you’ll survive. Waste your time in here on things you cannot control, and you will not.”

“Where am I?” Nika asked.

The girl shook her head, her mouth tight again. “Listen to what I’m saying. I’ve been where you are—I’m trying to help you, girl.”

“Then help me,” Nika pleaded. “I need to get out of here—”

“There’s no way out.”

“There must be,” Nika argued. “If you’ve been where I am, and you’re walking around now, free …”

The girl laughed, but the sound was harsh. “I’m not free.”

“But you can open the door,” Nika pointed out. “Let’s get out of here. If we go, together, maybe—”

“What?” the girl was disdainful now. “You think you can save me?”

“I think we should try!”

“Yeah, that’s not going to happen.”

“At least call my sister, tell her where I am—”

“So she can be taken, too? Of course, if she’s not like you, they’ll kill her. They’ll bleed her, use her, work her until she’s dead, like Zooey and the others. They don’t get a safe room like this, you know. Only the special girls do. But if you stop being special—and you will, if you don’t keep your strength up—you won’t come back here. And then they’ll just use you up.”

“Use me for what?” Nika asked, trying not to cry. “I don’t understand—”

“Try,” the girl said, her arms now wrapped protectively around her belly. “To understand this: That all you need to know is that when you are in this room, you must eat and you must sleep. You must focus on your health.” She pointed to the bed. “Lie down.”

Nika lifted her chin defiantly as she refused to move from in front of the closed curtains that blocked the window where she’d written two-thirds of that SOS. Still, her voice came out with a definite wobble. “I’m not tired.”

“Do you honestly think they’re not watching and listening, that they don’t know what you were doing in here?

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