Heart in Hand by Mary Calmes

Author:Mary Calmes [Calmes, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
ISBN: 9781615818938
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2011-05-24T02:29:37+00:00

VI

THE shaking was insistent, and when I finally opened my eyes, I saw Jess’s big brown ones staring down at me. Her face was dirty and scratched, but other than that, she looked unscathed. Sitting up, I wrapped my arms around her, crushing her to me.

“Oh, baby, are you alright?”

She was trembling hard. “Jesus Christ, Simon, what the fuck is going on?”

Why was she asking me?

“Oh God,” she moaned.

I pulled back to look at her face. “Did you see Leith?”

“Leith? No. How would Leith be here?”

“Never mind,” I said, taking a breath. “Did you see Kenny?”

She only nodded.

“Is he dead?”

She shook her head and started crawling away from me. It was only then that I realized that we were both covered in dirt. The two of us were in the entrance to what looked like a small cave. There were some rocks on one side, and I could see the furrow in the ground, which showed me how she had gotten me there. I had been dragged. But she wasn’t big enough to—

“Simon!”

Even though my name had been whispered, it sounded like a yell. My head snapped around, and I saw Chale. He was banged up, his right eye was swollen almost shut, and there were cuts and scratches on his face and neck. I was so happy to see him.

He grabbed me tight and hugged me so hard, ending up rolling over on top of me, as we were both lying down in the dirt. When he lifted up, I saw a tear roll down his bruised cheek.

“Thank you for helping Jess drag me here.”

He nodded fast. “I’m not real sure where here is, but away from everyone else is better.”

“What’re you talking about?”

“Come here,” Jess said softly, gesturing me to her.

When I rolled over on my stomach, my head swam for a minute before I got my bearings. I did the Navy SEAL crawl that they do in all the movies over to her, with Chale right behind me. We came up on either side of her and looked down the small hill at the craziness below.

I had never seen anything like it. There were creatures that looked like men but were definitely not. Some looked like Komodo dragons walking on two legs, like lizard men from some bad Saturday morning kids’ show with guys in zip-up rubber suits. Except the suits looked real and terrifying and more like something out of Clive Barker’s mind than Disney. Other creatures resembled bears, others like what I figured a werewolf would look like, but they were all doing the same thing: attacking the people in what resembled a giant corral. Off to one side there were two men who reminded me of Roman soldiers or gladiators in breastplates and those skirts made of leather strips. They wore guards on their forearms, but instead of sandals, both men wore boots made of fur that came to their knees. One had an ax strapped to his back; the other had a heavy broadsword hanging from a belt on his hip.

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