Heart of Dawn (Curse of Dawn Book 3) by Richard Amos

Author:Richard Amos [Amos, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-25T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

MIKO

Iwent for a walk down the corridor in an attempt to clear my head.

Instead, I reached the emergency room just as the pink smoke billowed across the furniture, passing over rotting corpses, doing what Dawn did every morning.

But with a twist.

It filled the bodies, reanimating them, most of them clearly felled zombies with things stuck in their heads to end brain activity.

Dawn was changing the rules.

The first corpse that got to its feet was a woman, a screwdriver sticking out of her left eye, maggots crawling over her face. Her hospital scrubs were caked in filth. She bared her rotten teeth, a phlegmy laugh oozing out of her.

“Think you are safe. Think you understand,” Dawn spoke. “You are wrong. I evolve. I evolve. I evolve.”

Yeah, we got the picture. Things were falling apart, the nightmare expanding.

The other corpses got up, facing me, the rotting stink now hitting me with an unpleasant burn to the back of my throat.

The others arrived, skidding to a stop around me.

Dawn cackled.

“This cannot be happening,” Basil whispered behind me. “This isn’t possible.”

Keep up, I wanted to say. Don’t you know we’re royally fucked?

“You will never be free,” Dawn said. “You will never succeed. Now is the time to die, chosen wolf. You lose.”

I hated to admit it, but the dickhead might have a point. But fuck it.

I jumped into the fray, my fist going right through the woman’s head, gore exploding in my face. The others roared, joining me. Together we wiped out the reanimated biters, making short work of Dawn’s newest trick.

“Shit,” I rasped after it was done, inspecting the bloodbath around me.

Pink smoke continued to roll across the floor. I raked a hand through my hair.

How was I supposed to make the journey back to London, get through the Faery gates, somehow catch a flight to the Forest of the Lost, and then find my love?

Shit. Shit.

Fuck!

I broke, the tears coming hot and fast, my hands shaking. Fireworks of grief popped off in my chest, sending me staggering backward. I couldn’t take it, I couldn’t fight it, sorrow bursting out of me.

I’d not experienced anything like this since losing my family.

Sobs ripped out of me in loud howls. I collapsed, defeated, the flood defenses obliterated. The smoke of Dawn recoiled from me as I wailed for Orion, for the loss of hope, for landing on a decision seconds ago.

I had to die to make this stop. I wasn’t afraid of death, but I was afraid of what I’d lose. But I already had. This was me going through the grieving process, letting things go.

No more fighting. No more clinging to hope.

What about my mate? How could I leave him in Faery with a knife in his belly?

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

I roared for him, screaming my lungs out for failing him.

My pack gathered around me, huddling together, holding me through this outpouring.

It kept going, an endless earthquake with no respite on the horizon.

“We’re here, sir.” Paige spoke so gently it added to the turmoil.

This was it.

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