Expecting Darkness by Mandy M. Roth

Author:Mandy M. Roth [Roth, Mandy M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Raven Happy Hour, LLC
Published: 2017-06-28T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Jessie moved toward the entrance of the nightclub, ignoring Searc’s request to stay put. She needed air and knew he would find her with ease when he was done talking to her father. She was almost to the door when she spotted Islay talking with a man she recognized from the university. The very man she’d been terrified of for months, but she wasn’t sure why.

Professor Rudy.

The guy Meena was dating.

The same fear she’d felt whenever she was near him since she’d blacked out returned tenfold. She backed up; the urge to flee was great. She’d ignored the warnings for months, dismissing the nightmares as nothing because Islay and Rudy didn’t know one another; why would she dream of them being together—of them hurting her?

As she watched them in what looked to be a heated argument, it was painfully clear they knew one another. How? She’d never introduced them, and Islay had never followed her to classes during the day. Doing so would have required him to be out in the sunlight, something he couldn’t do. And she’d never told Islay of her fear of Rudy—of her dreams.

Run.

Her body screamed at her to make her legs move and to put distance between herself and the men, but nothing happened. Nothing worked. Nothing moved.

“Jessie?”

She turned to find Tyler, Rudy’s assistant, close enough to touch her. Every inner alarm she had went off instantly. The blood drained from her face as she stood there, unable to move.

Tyler reached out and touched her arm, his blue gaze narrowing slightly. There was something in the way he smiled that made her think of a snake charming Eve into biting the apple. Tyler had never truly given her a reason to fear him, but that didn’t stop her from doing so. A scream was there, perched on the edge of her tongue, as her mind raced and her pulse sped.

“Want to dance?” he asked, easing closer to her.

Her entire body shook, but no words formed on her lips. It was as though her body was stuck in quicksand and her mouth was glued shut.

Tyler managed to get even closer to her. He skimmed the back of his hand down her arm and she felt as though bugs were crawling all over her. Jessie wanted to lash out at him and push him away, but she couldn’t get her body and her mind to do anything—she was that frozen in fear by the man.

Why?

It had never been this bad around Tyler before.

Instantly, she thought of the nightmares and when they’d started. That had also been the time her fear of him had grown to epic proportions.

“If you want,” he said, leaning in, his lips close to hers. “We can take off and go somewhere more private.”

She opened her mouth to yell for her father, but that wasn’t what came out. A yell didn’t happen. A tiny whisper did, and it wasn’t for her father. “Searc.”

“What?” asked Tyler, drawing Islay’s and Rudy’s attention. Time seemed to slow as Islay’s gaze moved to her.

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