Hammer: A Dark Romance by Loki Renard

Author:Loki Renard [Renard, Loki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stormy Night Publications
Published: 2019-08-21T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

I barely sleep, and I wake up early, just as the first slivers of light are coming into the cabin. Moving as quietly as possible, I slip down from the bunk where Jake is snoring softly on the floor, and I sneak outside. Yesterday, I put my coat and some food away around the corner of the cabin. They’re there waiting for me in the low light of a new day.

I feel awful about this, but I’d feel even worse if I stayed and kept ruining Jake’s life. I’m sure everyone will be relieved to find I’m gone. These guys either ignore me, or stop talking when they notice I’m within earshot. Despite what Jake says, I’m clearly not welcome here. It’s time to go.

I pull on the jacket and head down toward the tree line, making sure my rations are securely in my pockets.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

It’s not Jake’s voice that interrupts me. It’s Remington’s. He’s barely said a word to me since we met really, but I’ve felt him watching me, judging me behind that dirty blond expanse of hair and beard. His barked question makes me jump. I didn’t think anyone else was up. I definitely didn’t expect to find one of them behind me, standing on the cabin porch with his arms folded over his chest, pipe sticking out of the corner of his mouth, salt and pepper hair tousled with the combined factors of sleep and not giving a fuck.

“I’m just going to get some air.” I almost feel inclined to add sir to the sentence, the way the man barks at me.

“Sure, sure. You’ll have all the air you need once a mountain cat tears a hole or two in you.”

“I’m just trying to breathe, is that alright with you?”

I can hear the attitude in my voice. It’s not pretty. It’s sharp and kind of catty. I know that Jake’s friends don’t deserve this, but I don’t like being caught right on the verge of making the biggest sacrifice I can think of—Jake himself.

All I need to do is get to some remote law enforcement, in another state, another city, and show them that I’m alive, and all the charges against Jake go away. Well, most of them will, anyway. Rodney will still be hunting me, but it will be harder for him to kill me if my unscheduled return to life is widely publicized. I’ve got this all figured out, even if Jake thinks it is too dangerous. I still don’t know what his plan is. Find the other girls? Maybe. Assuming they’re not all in shallow graves.

“Go back inside,” Remington says. He speaks to me as if he expects to be obeyed, and I’m not sure I like that. It occurs to me that the three guys here, they don’t treat me like Jake’s girlfriend. They treat me like some kind of green recruit he dragged up here.

“I’ll go in later.”

“You’ll go in now.”

I glare at him, giving him

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