Darkness Unleashed by McKenzie Hunter

Author:McKenzie Hunter [Hunter, McKenzie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781946457844
Publisher: Sky Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-04-02T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

If anyone had told me I’d feel an affinity for the full moon, I wouldn’t have believed them. Now it was different—it called, and I didn’t have a problem answering. The moon wouldn’t be full for hours, but I felt its presence as I drove to Ethan’s house with several boxes of my belongings stashed in my car. I was really moving in with him. Hours of debate last night had ended in a stalemate, with me agreeing to split my time between his home and mine. He would give me the key to his elusive office. The promise of having access to years of his research might have been the reason for my anticipation. I felt like the clear winner, even after agreeing to accept a job with Josh on a temporary basis.

I had every intention of working for a day, enough to keep my end of the bargain, and then finding a different job. One brother at my house—or me at his—and the other at my job wasn’t a great idea.

Glancing at the office key connected to my keychain, I grinned, thoroughly distracted by the prospect of the information I’d find. More about the Faeries and maybe even information about the Mouras, who were tasked with guarding the protective objects. I nearly crashed into the cars stopped in front of me. People were working on what looked like the battery. There was just enough space for me to get around them. I began to maneuver past but was immediately pinned in by another car. Andrew from the bar was driving it—this wasn’t a coincidence. I looked forward, preparing to ram my way through, only to find the barrel of a shotgun pointed at me.

“Get out of the car!” the man holding the shotgun demanded, his voice as gruff and coarse as the rust-colored beard that covered his face. Stout, he was solid but not muscular and didn’t move like someone trained in combat or self-defense. He did, however, appear confident in his ability to use his weapon. “Get out of the car!” he barked again. When I didn’t move, he repositioned the gun to my head.

His heart was too steady. He was calm, probably more than ready to use the shotgun. A man beside him held what looked like a tranquilizer gun. It was unsteady in his hand. His lack of confidence was likely due to his young age or inexperience. His snarled face didn’t match his warm, brown eyes that watched me with immense curiosity. His erratic heartbeat was distracting, and he was holding each breath for too long as if he warding off a panic attack. Determining who was more dangerous was difficult: the man who definitely knew how to use his gun or the young ash-blond guy whose nervousness might get me shot by accident.

Debating whether my car could plow through to freedom in either direction, I looked in my rearview mirror. Andrew got out of the car, knife in hand, and took that decision away from me by stabbing the blade first into my rear left tire then into the right.

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