Hope Sparks by Harley Tate

Author:Harley Tate [Tate, Harley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-27T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

DANI

Northern California Forest

10:00 p.m.

Lottie crouched in Dani’s lap, small and trembling. If it weren’t for the heat the little dog radiated, Dani would have thought the shivers were her own. The longer she sat in the dark, the more terrifying it became.

The absence of light turned an ordinary forest into a sinister playground of imaginary ghouls and goblins. Every snap of a twig or rustle of leaves was the boogeyman coming to claim Dani as a victim.

She was never afraid of nighttime in the city. The steady glow of electricity made even the darkest back alley gray and mostly visible. She could skirt the light and stay safe in the shadows.

But the darkness of the forest clung to her skin and chilled her bones. Colt, Larkin, and Walter had experience in the total blackness. How many missions had Colt gone on where sight was the least of his abilities? Dani was sure the three of them had spent more than one night fighting an unseen enemy.

Not her. Every bad guy she’d ever encountered, from her mother to a drug dealer to Colonel Jarvis, attacked in the light.

The wound on her head still oozed, the smell of her blood cloying in the stillness. Dani kept the rag pressed against her scalp. Sooner or later it would either stop bleeding or she would pass out. She almost hoped for the latter.

The night dragged on. No light. No sounds of men returning from an expedition. No reassuring voices or glimpse of sunrise. It could have been minutes or hours, Dani had no idea. She struggled to stay awake, each blink drawing out longer and longer until her eyes closed longer than they managed to stay open.

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