Heir of Ashes by Jina S. Bazzar

Author:Jina S. Bazzar [Bazzar, Jina S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Creativia
Published: 2018-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Six

My mouth tasted like tobacco and horse shit. I was lying on my back at the floor of a moving vehicle. I kept my eyes closed and flashed back to everything that had happened between the time I found the vampire in my room at the bed and breakfast, to the last moments with my mother—or Elizabeth—with the speed of light. The phrase “cluster fuck” applied to the style of my life perfectly. Yeah, I really, desperately wanted a boring life.

The roar of the vehicle's engine was so loud, I couldn't determine how many were inside with me, only the impression that it was a very big vehicle. I opened my eyes and found myself at the very back of a bus, lying on the aisle floor.

I was also the sole focus of several soldiers with weapons aimed at me.

Two sat on the back-row seat near my feet, while the other two were near my head, one to my left, one to my right.

Four of them. Two tranquilizer guns and two semis.

Four blue auras.

They wore identical military uniforms, identical buzzed haircuts, identical expressions, and held identical guns.

I started to sit, and four barrels were suddenly cocked and ready to fire.

One of the men said, “If you so much as make a sound we have orders to shoot. Be smart and stay quiet and down.”

I obeyed.

I closed my eyes and tried to think through my panic. No one was going to come for me. I had sent Logan away. Kincaid had warned me he wouldn't be sent again and, even if he was in the bus with us, I didn't think he'd be able to take all of them by himself. Perhaps when Logan came for his friend, he'd come for me too. That is, if they took me to Washington in time. I had no doubt that was my final destination, after I spent some time in the military base in Elk Grove first.

What could I do? What could I do? A quick glance to the front told me there were a lot of soldiers ahead. I could feel the metal band of the blocking bracelet around my wrist—but even if I could tap into my other nature, my hands were cuffed together in front of me with the enforced steel used on preternaturals. Probably manageable, although I've never tried breaking it before. Even if I could break it, I'd be shot once or twice before I could do anything useful.

I looked back and found the four men still watching me, guns still aimed. God help me not to sneeze. It would be a shame to be shot because of an involuntary expulsion of air after all I've gone through, so I just lay there and did my best imitation of a statue.

Time passed slowly. I don't know how long we had been on the road before I awoke, but we had been moving steadily for over one hour when I realized that if we had been going to Elk Grove, to the military camp near Sacramento, we should have been there already.

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