Hell Born by Marie Bilodeau

Author:Marie Bilodeau [Bilodeau, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: S&G Publishing
Published: 2019-11-28T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

I missed my weapons even more ferociously than I had earlier. I had one dagger and one throwing knife (thanks to the assailant at the safe house), and that was it.

The weight of the shadows around me seemed to vanish, turning into just my usual comforting cloak. I released a long breath and shared a look with Max.

“Time to go in,” I said, giving him a confident grin. Clay would have bought it. Ian, however, did not. Or so I gathered from his growl.

“Look, the weird darkness is gone. I can sneak in, folding shadows around me, find him, wait ’til he’s awake, and then we can both walk out of there. It’s a perfect plan!”

I didn’t need to be able to understand him to know that he wasn’t buying what I was selling.

“Well, I’m going to help my friend,” I stood up. “You stay here like a good boy.”

He half-growled, half-snorted, and his fur began to recede, revealing human-looking flesh. His paws turned to hands and feet. He stood up beside me.

“You’re naked again,” I offered.

“Keep your eyes up!” he growled at me.

“No problem,” I said. “But I’m going after Clay.”

“I know.” He sounded genuinely distressed. “I just think that there might be a smarter way to do it than just walk in there, don’t you?”

“Sure,” I offered, “I’m sure there are multiple smarter ways to do this. I don’t have another way right now, so why don’t you come up with something?”

“I can sneak in there and at least see where your friend is. Then I can report back and lead you directly to him, instead of having you wandering around in there.”

“I can hide in the shadows,” I cocked an eyebrow. “Besides, I think people might be suspicious of a dog walking around.”

“I can be more than just a dog,” Ian offered. He didn’t look like a Max at all right now. “Look, let me go in there and figure out who exactly they are and what they’re doing, and where they’re holding him. He’s unconscious right now anyways. What are you going to do, drag him out of there?”

I shrugged, crossed my arms. “I can probably wake him up.”

“I’m sure you can,” he looked discouraged. “But he might be loud about it. Can you wait while I go in and investigate? Will you trust me with that?” He sounded more and more exasperated.

Worse: he made a good point.

“I don’t know that I have that much of a choice,” I mumbled.

“I’ll take that as a high compliment that you trust me then,” he sarcastically noted.

“How long are you going to take?” I ignored his tone.

“Give me half an hour,” he said. “I can get in there, scout around, and come tell you where he is.”

Half an hour seemed like forever right now. Half an hour was enough to do a lot, including kill Clay. But if they’d wanted to kill him, they would have surely done so beforehand, and not bothered to drag him into whatever this place was.

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