Hunted: A Reverse Harem Shifter Romance (The Feral Souls Trilogy - Book 1) by Erica Woods

Author:Erica Woods [Woods, Erica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788293735007
Publisher: Wildland Books
Published: 2019-10-17T05:00:00+00:00

29

HOPE

By the time Ruarc and Lucien got back in the car, my terror had given way to a welcome numbness. There was no doubt in my mind Ruarc would have sensed my fear—somehow they always seemed to know how I was feeling—and would have poked and prodded at the still open wound until I broke.

“What did Ash order?” I asked absentmindedly, not listening to the reply. Something about horses. Food?

My head was spinning. Each thought passing through my mind a fleeting, elusive mist I couldn’t quite grasp. I barely felt the churning in my stomach, the tightness in my chest. Being numb was . . . good.

Until it wasn’t.

Ruarc had been talking. I realized this the same way I’d once realized it had been five long years since I last saw the sun; with a detached sort of panic, knowing it mattered but unable to push through the fog clogging up all the space in my skull.

I drew in a deep breath.

I couldn’t afford to panic, couldn’t afford to go numb and close my eyes to my surroundings. If the Hunters were here . . .

It doesn’t mean they’ve found me.

True. The place would be crawling with Hunters if they knew I was near. So what did it mean? Why was Jan there?

My throat burned with the need to empty my guts. The thought of him, of Jan . . .

A shudder wracked my body.

“You cold?”

I looked at Ruarc, trying to read his expression, but I struggled to focus on his face. “No.”

And I wasn’t. Cold was doable. Cold was a sensation you could recover from, something you could combat with a warm bath or some hot chocolate. I wasn’t cold. I was something much worse.

“You’re trembling.” A snarl in his voice.

I couldn’t bring myself to care.

Were the Hunters searching all the towns around the compound, starting with those closest and working their way out? That seemed the most logical answer given what I knew. It would mean they’d move past this area in not too long, wouldn’t it?

If I hadn’t already been sitting I’d have sagged to the ground.

Lucien’s cool voice drifted through my mind, but the words made no sense.

A warm hand grabbed mine. Ruarc. “What’s wrong?”

“N-nothing.” I had to leave. As soon as the Hunters had finished searching the areas close to the guys and it was safe for me to move on, I had to leave.

A deep, throbbing hurt squeezed my middle so hard I momentarily lost my breath.

When . . . when I left—

My heartbeat suddenly pounded at my temples. I squeezed my eyes shut and pulled my hand free.

In a few weeks I would leave to find my uncle—my breath turned to frost in my lungs, my fingers curled in my lap—I’d do what my father had told me. I would find my uncle and . . .

And what?

Put his life at risk? Somehow convince him to help me take down the Hunters? Make him help me in my search for whatever it was

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