Highland Son (Highland Sorcery: A New Dawn) by Clover Autrey

Author:Clover Autrey
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Red Rover Books
Published: 2014-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Fury pushed Dez to keep sawing through the ropes, even as his fingers cramped around the small blade.

Ethan could not wake up like that, not on his stomach, arms bound and stretched like that. He’d think…

Dez swallowed around the bile rising up his throat and sawed at his bonds more fervently, watching the subtle difference in his friend’s breathing. He knew too well what Ethan’s nightmares consisted of.

Whatever drug he’d been dosed with was wearing off. Ethan was rousing, the lashes of his unswollen eye were moving against his flushed skin.

Ethan shifted suddenly, trying to lift his head. The muscles in his arms tightened and Dez sawed harder, anticipating Ethan’s reaction.

Ethan tugged more forcefully on his arms, finding them immobile. He drew in a painful breath.

Dez knew the moment Ethan came awake and panicked. His face lifted. He sucked in a painful breath and all hell broke loose.

“No!” Ethan screeched, yanking and yanking against the pipes forcefully enough to make his wrists bleed.

“Ethan, stop! It’s okay, man. You’re not there. You’re not there.” None of this was okay.

Ethan was beyond hearing. He twisted violently onto his back, his features pale with terror, chest heaving so rapidly he was on the verge of hyperventilating, body arching and legs kicking out.

Gloriesdammit! Dez slashed the tiny blade into his ropes, finally feeling the loosening in the fraying bonds. He couldn’t wait, pulled his arms apart with everything he had…groaning as the veins in his neck bulged. Sweat trickled across his neck. Ethan’s leg knocked into his.

With a burst of adrenaline, one of the ropes gave, fraying apart, and Dez twisted his arms, freeing one hand and was on his knees next to Ethan before he had the rest of the rope off of his other hand.

He latched onto Ethan’s arms, holding him steady to quit flaying his wrists apart. His arms were twisted oddly against the ropes, one on top of the other from flopping onto his back.

“Hey, hey, snap out of it.” He curled his hands around Ethan’s biceps, hating to restrain him in any manner while he was like this.

Ethan was still plagued by the occasional nightmare, but Dez hadn’t seen him locked so tight in a terror this bad for years.

Damn drugs, damn Sheppard to the worst parts of hell for this.

“Come on, Ethe. It’s me. You’re okay. You’re not there anymore. You got away. You’re not there. You’re with me. It’s Dez. Right? Come on.”

Tension coiled beneath Dez’s palms. The muscles of Ethan’s arms were rock hard, tight as stone, veins bulged to bursting.

Damn it, he wasn’t getting through. “That’s it.” Dez leaned down into Ethan’s space, getting up close and personal and palmed his cheeks roughly. “Now you listen to me,” he snarled. “Snap out of this right the hell now.”

Ethan tried to shake his head out of Dez’s grip but Dez wouldn’t let him. His eyes tracked to the side and up, anywhere but at Dez. He knew that look, hadn’t seen it since the first

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