Dangerously Driven_Broken Riders by Deborah Blake

Author:Deborah Blake [Blake, Deborah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: baba yaga, deborah blake, dragons, magic fiction, fantasy fiction, broken riders
Publisher: Deborah Blake
Published: 2018-07-20T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Alexei was already inside the National Forest lands where Bella and Sam made their home when he stopped at a pull-off spot to eat his lunch. Over the last sixteen hours, he had traveled almost two thousand miles from Cape Cod. It would have taken almost twice that long on a non-magical motorcycle, but it was still a tiring trip, and he had worked up an appetite.

He parked the massive black Harley in the shade of a tree and delved into the fringed and studded saddlebags for the large paper bag he’d stowed there after stopping to pick up food at the convenience store he’d passed.

Alexei Knight was a giant of a man, six feet eight inches tall, wide and muscular, and he had an appetite to match his size. The bag contained two huge ham and cheese subs, a bottle of water, and two large chocolate chip cookies with nuts. It ought to hold him until he arrived at Bella’s and she fed him dinner. Or maybe a late afternoon snack.

He was about to unroll the top of the bag when he thought he heard something. He cocked an ear toward the woods that lay beyond the open space where he’d parked, and the sound came again.

“Help!” a voice cried in the distance. “Help! Can anyone hear me?”

Alexei gazed mournfully at the bag in his hands and then tucked it under his arm as he took off down a hiking trail to the side of the pull-off. His huge strides ate up the distance as he jogged past trees and shrubs and one curious raccoon who looked more startled than alarmed as the huge man went thundering by.

“Hello?” Alexei called. “Hello? Where are you?”

“I’m right here, stupid,” the raccoon muttered, but Alexei just waved at him and kept going.

“Hello?” the voice said. “Is somebody there? Help me! I need help!”

Alexei screeched to a halt as he almost tripped over a massive tree lying lengthwise at the edge of a clearing, still partially attached to its base. An orange chain saw lay canted on its side near the roots and a flannel-clad arm flailed around in the air not far from it. The rest of the body the arm was attached to was out of view until Alexei stepped carefully over the tree and looked from the other side.

“Hey there,” he said cheerfully to the man lying underneath the main part of the tree, partially covered by the fronds of branches. “That looks mighty uncomfortable. Are you okay?”

The man glowered at him. “No I’m not okay, you idiot. A tree fell on me!”

Alexei stroked his brown beard, still kind of missing its longer, braided length. The man on the ground had a bushy beard even darker than his, and longish graying hair that touched the top of the plaid shirt he wore. For all the yelling, the man didn’t seem to be injured or bleeding, except for a couple of small scratches. From what Alexei could see, the branches were keeping most of the weight of the massive trunk from crushing the man, at least for the moment.

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