Fading Amber by Jaime Reed

Author:Jaime Reed [Reed, Jaime]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2012-11-19T13:00:00+00:00

12

“Get back in the elevator!” Haden yelled and took a step back and in the same moment, a gunshot cracked in the air.

I hit the floor and Caleb followed suit, managing to pull Michael with him. In the sea of moving limbs and flashes of darkness, I lifted my head to get a better look and saw Haden tumble back into the elevator. Still on the floor, Caleb reached for the up button on the wall and the doors began to close. Another shot fired into the car and punched a hole into the back wall. Then another fired into the top right corner.

There were bodies all around me, blocking my view, but I could see the gap of the sliding doors grow smaller. Gunner charged forward, one hand stretched out to wedge between the doors. His face twisted in a fierce mask of anger, while his eyes glowed bright gold.

Michael’s weight was on my legs, crushing my shins. There was a jingling sound at my right and I turned as best as I could. Caleb got to his feet, holding his key chain and a tiny Swiss army knife attached to the link. With one of the blades raised, Caleb sliced the meaty fingers peeking between the doors. A howl came from outside of the door, but Gunner kept to his mission to pry his way in. Blood dripped down the metal panel and over the fingers, making it too slippery to keep his grip.

The doors were trying to open again. I reached over and pushed the close button repeatedly until finally the bloody fingers disappeared. Only when I felt the car begin to lift did I stop.

Don’t freak out, don’t trip, just be cool, I chanted to myself. This wasn’t happening. I was just having a good time and talking to my boyfriend, not being held at gunpoint in an elevator. Of all people, why Gunner? Did Olivia hate Caleb so much that she put a hit out on him? Did she even have that kind of pull?

I dismissed that idea before it could settle. I saw Gunner’s eyes, small and spaced too close together, but instead of their usual piercing blue shade, they were like fire. Only one person had eyes like that, and he had the means and the motive to dispatch an enemy; he was the only one right now with a good reason to want to kill any of us.

“Is everyone okay?” Haden groaned from the opposite side of the car. I couldn’t see him—Michael’s shoulder was in the way—but I could hear evident pain in his voice.

“Yeah. What the hell was that?” Caleb asked and helped pull me to my feet.

“I think that was Tobias. In fact, I’m sure of it,” I said.

He looked at me with impatience. “Sam, don’t start—”

“You saw it yourself. Gunner has blue eyes, now he’s walking around with glowing yellow ones. And he’s a hired guard who just tried to kill us. Do the math, Caleb.”

“Gunner’s possessed? We need to tell Evangeline.

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