Dark Creatures: A fast paced urban fantasy thriller (The Dark Creatures Saga Book 1) by Ella Stone

Author:Ella Stone [Stone, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Darkerside Publications
Published: 2021-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

I don’t know if it’s the witch in her or whether she just has nerves of freaking steel, but I swear she looks as cool as anything in her black boots and leather jacket, striding towards this big old warehouse. I, on the other hand … well. Maybe it’s the fact that I’ve spent this whole journey concealing a nine-inch, wooden stake inside the lining of my jacket. Obviously, I can’t let Rey know about it, so she naturally assumes my nervousness is all about the Blood Bank.

“It’ll be fine,” she says. “There’s always a member of the VC there to oversee things. Just follow my lead. Let me do all the talking.”

“Do you think they’ll search us before we’re allowed in?”

“Search us? Why?”

“I don’t know. Maybe make sure we don’t have any weapons on us or anything?”

I keep looking straight forwards as I speak. She pulls up.

“Naz,” she says, accusingly.

“What?”

“Don’t make me regret this.”

“I’m just asking, that’s all.”

I resist the urge to place my hand on the concealed stake. It should be fairly straight forward to plough it through a dead sternum. And I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t practised. At some point, someone is going to move the wardrobe in my old flat and think I was rehearsing for a remake of the Shawshank Redemption.

It's taken us almost an hour to get here. Even if Rey had relented and given me directions, I doubt I’d have been able to find it on my own. The storage park we’ve arrived at is just a short train ride from Wimbledon, but it's a world away from grassy tennis courts and strawberries and cream. The buildings are clad with corrugated iron and have tin roofs. Rusted fence posts stand guard, broken chains dangling. You can tell it’s the type of place that always looks grey. Even in daylight. There are about a dozen cars parked on the oil-stained tarmac. Less than half of them look like they would actually be drivable. Mixed among them are a few caravans, propped up on bricks, with silhouettes moving at the windows.

This is definitely a place you’d avoid on a dark night. The type of place you’d avoid at any time of day, in fact. Yet we’re walking towards it.

“Are you sure this is it?” I ask, currently feeling strangely grateful that my first conventional vampire experience was in a luxury flat in Mayfair. Somehow, I don’t think I’d have been quite so willing to take Joanna’s place and come here on my own. Fortunately, I’m not on my own. Rey’s with me and she knows what she’s doing. At least, she looks like she does.

“Don’t worry,” she says. “I know what you're thinking. It’s not much further now.”

“But it’s here? In a storage park?”

“I don’t know exactly, but this is where we dropped the blood off.”

Something has been bothering me about this whole Blood Bank thing. Something I’ve been wanting to ask her all night, but given that we’ve been on public transport and surrounded by people the whole time, I’ve not really had a chance.

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