Jekyll, an Urban Fantasy by Lauren Stewart

Author:Lauren Stewart [Lauren Stewart]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Off The Hook Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XVII

Eden rushed forward, stepping over the man who’d attacked them. But she didn’t stop to look. All she saw was Mitch, his body convulsing, both arms reaching out to her as if he was already worlds away.

“Don’t touch him!” Landon yelled from somewhere outside of her tunnel vision. “It’s a Taser, Eden! Don’t touch him!” Then over Mitch’s twitching shoulder, she saw him tackle the gunman.

Frozen where she stood, she watched Mitch drop to the ground, every limb jerking, every muscle cramped and seizing. He was being electrocuted right in front of her, dying right in front of her, and she couldn’t even touch him. Be with him. Help him.

She slid down to Mitch’s still-jerking body. Her hands hovering above him, wanting desperately to touch but her mind refusing to let them. Not until it knew she was safe.

She scrambled around him, looking for a source. The only thing she knew about Tasers was from movies—electricity flowed from the handheld unit through wires into barbs that went into skin. There were no wires. But something that looked like a small dart stuck out from the large muscle of his shoulder.

“How can I make it stop?” she yelled. “What do I do to make it stop?”

Landon grunted as his fists struck over and over until the gunman let go of the weapon and his body went limp. Mitch’s body contracted suddenly, raising him off the floor, and then dropped. The shaking of his limbs slowed to more of a shiver. Like he’d just returned from a beach vacation. In Antarctica.

Landon climbed off of the unconscious guard and grabbed the Taser, studying it. “I’ve never seen anything like this before. I don’t—”

“Can I touch him?”

As soon as he nodded, she ripped the dart out and threw it across the room. Then she put her ear to Mitch’s chest, listening for a heartbeat.

“Is he…?” Landon asked.

She waved her hand to shut him up. She needed to concentrate, focus. What she didn’t need were distractions or explanations or—

She heard something. It was dim, slow, and erratic. More like someone in the ICU than the strong, masculine fighter Mitch was.

Is. He is. She took a deep breath, smiling nervously. “His heart is beating.”

“Shit,” Landon yelled. “Okay, that’s good. I’m going to…” He paced back and forth. “I’m going to…do…something.” Maybe Landon had never almost lost a partner before. Or maybe he had and reliving it was knocking all of his cop-instincts out the window. All the more reason she needed to keep her shit together—now she was thinking for all three of them.

“We need to get out of here, Landon. He needs help. And we need to find a place these bastards don’t know about. Get some stuff together—clothes, money, keys, and then go make sure they didn’t do anything to the car.”

“Yeah, okay. I’ll—”

“Just go,” she snapped. She heard him bounding up the stairs.

Why now? If they’d wanted her back, why did they wait two days? They had to have known where she was.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.