Faith of a Monster Killer: Killing Forever Book 3 by David J. Phifer

Author:David J. Phifer [Phifer, David J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-11T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

The Cleanse

Climbing up the white brick well with Maya hanging around my neck, she screamed bloody murder and lost her hold, sliding down my back. She dug her nails into my arm and grabbed my throat, practically strangling me with a death grip. In short, she wasn’t helping.

It was a long drop to the bottom and Maya wouldn’t survive a second fall. With the dark entity growing in her belly, she was growing weaker and barely able to hold on. Climbing up a wall of rocks with a hundred-pound weight on my back meant I wasn’t in a position to offer multiple-choice options, so we needed a new tactic.

“Climb around me to the front,” I said.

“It hurts,” she said. She tried pulling herself up—

And slipped.

I snatched her wrist just in time. Luckily, I had a good grip on one of the bricks, but she dangled in the air. And the brick was loosening. I couldn’t hold her. The stone was about to give way.

Far below me on the ground, an old friend stared up at me.

Maggie Walker.

“Where are you going, Ivy?” she asked. “I thought we were having fun? Don’t you want to have my baby?” A second later, it was Jack. “Get back here, boy. Don’t run away from your problems.” It shifted to Maya. “Come on, boss. Don’t leave me here. I don’t want to be alone.” Serena scoffed. “You’re such a spoilsport, Solomon. Fine, get out. Run away like a coward. Who needs you?” She threw a rock up at me. It pinged off my temple.

I wasn’t sure if the rock was in my mind or real, but it sure hurt like it was real. It was times like these I wish I had a grenade.

Serena shifted into my son, Jason. “Dad, don’t leave me down here. I’m scared…”

I growled. “Now you went too far, asshat.”

My strength was weakening, but the rage gave me renewed energy. The brick was pulling loose, so I needed to find that new tactic yesterday.

From the corner of my eye, I examined the other side of the well, roughly a five-foot distance. Still holding Maya’s wrist as she dangled beneath me, I let go of the brick and fell backward into the well. My neck and shoulders drove into the other side. I was horizontal in the well, my feet pressing one end and my neck and shoulders digging into the other.

Hanging thirty yards above the rocky well bottom, Maya groaned in anguish, like her organs were being chewed on from the inside. But if we were going to survive, I needed to get her on top of me.

“You need to climb on my chest, Maya,” I said. She didn’t say a word. She was completely unresponsive.

Goddammit.

I shook her by the wrist. “Maya, get with it, girl.” She opened her eyes. “I’m going to swing you. When you hit the wall by my feet, you need to shove off the brick and jump on me.”

“I-I don’t know if I can do it,” she said.

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