Cauldron Bubble (Toil & Trouble Book 1) by Wendy Knight

Author:Wendy Knight [Knight, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Six Inch Heel Press
Published: 2016-10-11T03:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

DESTINY HAD SEEN PICTURES OF CRATER of the Moon State Park. It looked like Mars, or at least how she thought Mars should look. She’d always wanted to go, but this, trapped in her head the way she was, this was not the way she had hoped to go about it.

“Fate? Help.” She sounded small and pathetic in her own head, and she knew Fate couldn’t hear her.

She was also exhausted. She could feel how tired her body was physically, but whatever had taken her over wasn’t letting her stop. She walked right up to the pay station like it was the most normal thing ever and she didn’t need a truck at all.

My truck.

I miss my truck.

The woman with the ranger hat on did look at her oddly, but she took the money Destiny gave her and handed her a map that Destiny didn’t even take. The poor old lady held it out helpfully and Destiny just took her receipt and walked off.

I’m so sorry!

One day, when she was in control of herself again, she would come back and apologize to the cute lady.

She walked down the road as cars flew past. For a second, she forgot everything and was dumbstruck by the scenery. It was like nothing she’d ever seen before. Black, petrified lava every which way. It looked smooth and she wanted to feel it, but her body wouldn’t agree.

“Destiny Stafford, you stop right there, young lady, or I’m. Telling. Mom.”

In her head, Destiny cried in relief.

Fate. Fate was here. Fate had found her. Everything would be okay.

But her body didn’t agree. She took off running.

Destiny screamed. In her head. But no sound came out of her mouth.

She made it fourteen steps before she was tackled from behind. Later, she would point out to Quin that he could only catch her because she was exhausted. She’d been running all day and functioning on six hours of sleep in two days. But at that moment, Quin had no problem catching her and knocking her right off her feet. Her chin scraped against the sidewalk, her elbows and knees tore, and suddenly, she was free.

“Quin! You’re going to hurt her!” Fate bellowed, dragging him away.

“She wouldn’t stop!” he bellowed back. “The girl should play football. I’ve taken down three hundred pound blockers easier.”

Destiny scrambled to her knees and they both braced themselves to chase her again. Instead, she threw her arms around Quin’s neck. “You broke the bars!”

She felt him tense against her, and then his arms slid around her waist, pulling her closer against him. “I’m glad you’re okay,” he said gruffly.

“For now.” She leaned her head against his shoulder and ignored the sting in her chin and elbows and knees. It felt good, leaning against his broad chest, letting someone else hold her up. Quin was big and tough. He could keep the warlocks away and the bars away and everything else bad away, right?

But he couldn’t. She remembered him fighting the warlocks and he’d been losing.

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