Fight the Tide: Shifter Gay Romance (Kick at the Darkness Book 2) by Keira Andrews

Author:Keira Andrews [Andrews, Keira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, M/M
ISBN: 9781988260068
Publisher: KA Books
Published: 2016-07-23T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Craig’s confused shouts faded behind him as Adam raced toward the water. There were infected there—not many by the sounds of it, but enough. Rising above their din were sobs, and Adam couldn’t focus enough to pinpoint whose. The thudding of his own heart was deafening.

He raced down the pier, machete in hand, tearing through the creepers, his fangs extending and hair spreading. Their heads thudded down, and he skidded to a stop at the edge of the wooden planks. Parker was bleeding. He was in the other boat, and he was covered in blood. Adam roared, his claws springing out and hair thickening.

But Parker was on his feet at the wheel, backing up the boat to the pier, and he didn’t seem injured somehow. There was so much blood, and—

Through the rage jackhammering, he focused on the thing near Parker’s bloody feet. A long shape, wrapped in a tarp, surrounded by blood. Oh God. He glanced at Bella, taking in Lilly at the back, standing there gaping. Jacob was on his knees beside her, his head down.

“Adam!”

Blinking, he realized Parker was there, the boat by the pier’s ladder. There was so much blood, filling Adam’s nose with its metallic, too-sweet stench. But it wasn’t Parker’s. Relief shuddered through him, followed hotly by grief for poor Abby. With a deep breath, he closed his eyes, taming the wolf, becoming human again. When he looked again, the world was a little duller. “Are you hurt?”

Parker shook his head. “She’s dead. The kids are alone over there. We have to…do things. The right things. What are we supposed to do? Fuck.” He was trembling, and Adam climbed onto the boat to take him in his arms.

“It’s okay. We’ll figure it out.”

Craig approached at a run, and when he reached the end of the dock, he surveyed the scene mutely, breathing hard through his mouth. “Abby?”

“I’m so sorry.” Parker shook his head. “It happened too fast. I couldn’t—I’m sorry.”

A tremor rocked Craig, his face crumpling. “Please, God. No.” His shoulders shook, and for a horrible moment, he seemed ready to break right in half as he slammed to his knees.

Adam and Parker stood uselessly as Craig sobbed. Then he jerked up his head, staring out at Bella. Wiping his face roughly, he took a few deep breaths. “Okay. Let’s handle this.”

So they did.

Adam went back for their dropped supplies and the dinghy, and then they sailed the boats back out to sea, Parker still in his bloody clothes behind Saltwater’s wheel. Lilly wept in her father’s arms, and Jacob curled into a ball on Bella’s bow. Adam could hear his soft whimpers, and a howl clawed at his throat, claws and fangs pushing to be released, the wolf’s impotent fury and sorrow almost overpowering him.

He got Parker clean and into fresh clothes, not able to bear the sight of so much blood on him. Abby was still wrapped up on the red-splashed deck, and they refused to let Jacob see her, keeping the kids on Bella.

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