Chasm by M. M. Crumley

Author:M. M. Crumley [Crumley, M. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B09PTQSY58
Publisher: Lone Ghost Publishing
Published: 2022-05-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Doc was somewhat aware of a vague sensation of pain, but when he turned to focus on it, the darkness surrounding him tightened. There was something he needed to do. Somewhere he needed to be. And this was not it.

Why was he asleep? He tried to wake up, but he couldn't. He was stuck in the blackness. Then it all came back to him in a rush. Jury. The artifact of compulsion. Dulcis. Dulcis was burning.

Panic grabbed hold of Doc. Dulcis was burning. What was he doing? He needed to be there.

"Wake up," he muttered. "You've got to wake up."

"You really should," a voice purred in French. "It'll be more fun for me that way."

He'd forgotten that bit. He'd been impaled by a truck; and if he wasn't mistaken, he was now naked and strapped to a chair. Only one way to find out... He opened his eyes.

A blond woman was sitting across from him, her beautiful red lips twisted in a sneer. "The immortal amazing unbeatable Doc Holliday," she spat. "I find myself a little disappointed."

Doc tamped down the fury that tried to boil out. Everyone inside Dulcis would be fine because Jervis would take care of them. Which just left Doc with the small problem of figuring out how to break free from the formidable metal chair he was currently shackled to.

"Not so impressive without all your trinkets and charms," the woman said. "And just so you know, I hooked the tracker bracelet onto a random car; and the rest of them I'm keeping for myself. They might be useful someday." She shrugged a delicate shoulder and added, "Not that I would actually wear any of them; they clash with my beauty."

"You have me at a disadvantage," Doc drawled. "If I had to guess, I'd say you're a relation of Marie Baudelaire."

She glared at him and said, "You killed my entire family."

"Are you sure?" Doc asked.

"You sent your little wolf to do it for you!" she snapped. "When I'm done with you, I'm going to hunt down his family and tear them limb from limb, and while he's overcome with weeping, I'll kill him as well," she said, eyes hard with anger.

"So you're the last Baudelaire?" Doc asked curiously.

"Yes!" she spat. "The last of my line anyway," she added softly. "And that's the only line that truly matters."

She stood and began to pace. "It simply doesn't make sense. You aren't even a witch. You're a nobody. And your wolf... Bah! I used to kill people like him daily, just for the sport of it. How?" she demanded, fierce eyes meeting his. "How?"

"Luck?" Doc suggested.

"Luck," she sneered. "When the Jurys come into power, everything you've ever loved will be nothing but dust!"

"You're going to let the Jurys carry out your revenge?" Doc drawled. "Can't manage it yourself?"

"My revenge is killing you," she snapped. "But I'm going to do it so slowly that you will beg me to end you. And I won't. I won't."

Doc shrugged.

"You're a naked man bound to a chair," she mocked.

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