Cinder Road (Scorch Series Romance Thriller Book 2) by Toby Neal & Emily Kimelman

Author:Toby Neal & Emily Kimelman [Neal, Toby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Avital

Avital’s toes barely touched the street as two men propelled her along the sidewalk.

“Let go of me!” Avital twisted her upper body, trying to break the hold on her biceps, but their fingers dug into her flesh painfully.

The men were middle-aged, with gray in their hair and silver in their beards. They looked like regular citizens. One of the men had come to the town square with his daughter, who’d cut her foot—Avital remembered him from treating the child.

Focused on returning her supplies to her bag, Avital hadn’t seen him club Dolf on the head—she’d just heard the sickening thunk of a club striking his skull.

Dolf fell before her startled eyes—knees buckling, his strong, lithe body crashing to the ground. He’d moaned and rolled toward her, a hand reaching, eyes blank. She dove for him, but the two men now dragging her through the streets of Newton had grabbed her, hauling her away as she screamed his name.

At least he’d still been breathing.

Watching Dolf as he carried Slash around and helped with the children they found on the bus, she’d discovered a side of him that had only been hinted at in the past. Nando had always sworn that Dolf had just as big a heart—Dolf was just more selective about who he gave it to. She hadn’t believed Nando, in spite of Dolf’s affinity for animals and the kindnesses he’d shown to them through gifts like that stupid marble sink. She’d always thought that taking care of Nando was a part of Dolf’s self-preservation—taking care of his twin was its own kind of selfishness.

But over the last few days, she’d seen Dolf help others without thought of how it would benefit him—or her. Had he always been this way, and she’d never seen it? Or was it because of Avital’s insistence on stopping to help? She’d been surprised by how his generosity and thoughtfulness had come out on the road.

Stopping to help had also led to him being clubbed down in the square, and to Avital being kidnapped and hauled down the street towards a grand Victorian house marked Newton Bed and Breakfast.

The men dragged her, kicking and fighting, up the steps. When they paused to open the door, Avital gave one last heave for freedom, getting loose from one man, but not the other. She fell and almost hit the porch boards. He swore and lifted her up, throwing her over his shoulder. One arm braced around her thighs, he entered the inn.

Avital beat at the man’s back as he carried her over ornate carpeting and up a creaking wooden staircase. She reached out and grabbed for the banister, locking her fingers around it, and her captor stumbled back and almost dropped her. She wriggled hard, trying to reach the banister with her free hand to get a better purchase.

The other man came up behind them and unhooked her fingers easily. Avital screamed in his face with frustration. Since the Scorch Flu had erupted, she’d been more helpless than ever before in her life.

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