Deliver Me from Chaos by Tes Hilaire

Author:Tes Hilaire [Hilaire, Tes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780989604048
Publisher: The Inner Imp
Published: 2018-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The world was spinning, lights flashing, ears ringing, the smell of copper. Katrina moaned, raising her hands to her throbbing head. Only one responded, pain sliced through her left arm. She screamed, couldn’t help it, so sharp was the bite of agony.

Despite the ringing in her ears, she became aware of a vast stillness in the car. Which wasn’t right. Mike wouldn’t just be sitting there, unless…

“Mike?”

No response.

She twisted her head, was rewarded with more flashing lights that forced her eyes shut. She tried again, caught the shadow of his outline through her tunnel vision. She tried to reach him with her good arm, but the way the car was crushed and how she hung upside down within it, she couldn’t even touch more than his elbow.

Whimpering she reached for her seatbelt.

Beside her metal ground.

The door creaked and crunched as it was forced open.

She swung her head around, saw two blurry outlines. “I’m okay, help Mike.”

Only they didn’t listen to her, hands grasped her under her armpits, one arm reaching across her to pop her seatbelt as the other person dragged her out.

Pain sliced through her body as her left arm was bumped against the frame of the car. For a moment she blacked out, but the need to help Mike had her clawing her way back to reality.

“Please, I need to help Mike…” She arched against the arms holding her, her attention all for the shadowy form in the car. Still hadn’t moved.

Her breath caught, panic squeezing down on her ribs. No, no! Mike was okay, had to be. He just hit his head and passed out.

The arms wouldn’t let her go.

“Please…”

The chest she was pinned against vibrated, a rumble, no, a chuckle rising. “Precious, aren’t you?”

She twisted, trying to see the man who held her. No, not a man, a merker. His black eyes danced. His lips curled back, exposing a row of bloodied gums that looked like he’d recently lost the majority of his teeth.

“Save your pleas of mercy for later, darling,” he said, his words half mangled from his lack of teeth. “You’re going to need them for where you’re going.”

Her veins ran cold, but she refused to let the panic squeezing down on her freeze her. She fought, yelling and arching against them. Her arm shrieked in pain as she tried to use it despite the fact that it wouldn’t respond. Only she was no match for them. Even with her adrenaline induced fury. Because all the merker did was laugh, wrapping its hands around her throat as he squeezed the air right out of her body. Her last thought as her body went limp and the darkness claimed her was that she’d failed. She’d failed Mia, and Mike, God, Mike…she just hoped he was alive and that these bastards wouldn’t realize what he was.

***

Mike woke with a roar. Gripping pain tried to reclaim him back to darkness, but he refused to go. Instead he forced his eyes open—had to assess the situation—only a quick scan confirmed what he already feared: he was alone.

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