Lord of Bones: A Dark Monster Romance by Aiden Pierce & R.K. Pierce

Author:Aiden Pierce & R.K. Pierce [Pierce, Aiden & Pierce, R.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

RAYVEN

I woke up with a scream. Something was touching me.

My eyelids flung open to see a vine slowly winding around my ankle.

I shot up into a sitting position and tried to pull the vine loose, but it wouldn’t budge. It only wound tighter, cutting off my circulation.

Fuck.

My gaze followed the vine, trying to find the plant it came from, and my heart clenched when I saw it disappeared beneath the hedge wall. Whatever this plant was, it wasn’t from the garden of plum trees.

It must have sensed me, searched for me. Whatever it was doing, it couldn’t be good.

No matter how much I pulled at the vine, it wouldn’t loosen. If only I had something to cut through it…

Belial’s dagger earring!

My hand shot to my ear and pulled the silver piece of jewelry free. It was only a few inches long, but the blade was sharp enough to slice through the vine.

I swung, stabbing toward the vine around my ankle. The instant it met the metal, the vine recoiled and jumped back into the bushes, taking me along with it.

A scream was knocked back into my lungs as it jerked me off the bench, and my back slammed into the ground. Then I was being pulled across the garden at a speed that had my head spinning.

I exploded through the hedge, and then another, thorns slicing my skin and branches jabbing at every part of me.

The vine dragged me through the mud, my head whirling as I was viciously jerked down turns and through several more hedges. The disembodied heads laughed as they watched me zing past.

“Ha! Looks like the blood oak caught her!” one head snickered, its voice gone as soon as it had come.

Blood oak? Belial’s words from when he’d pulled me from the quicksand came rushing back. He’d mentioned something about carnivorous trees. Was that what the head was referring to?

Of all the ways to die in this stupid maze, being eaten by a fucking plant wasn’t going to be the way I went down.

With the dagger earring clutched in my fist, I tried to haul myself up to reach the vine dragging me, my muscles screaming. It was no use. At the speed I was moving, I couldn’t pull my back off the ground.

Mark had once tried to get me to join a Pilates class. I’d laughed in his face when he suggested exercise, especially in public. At a strip mall of all places. Not exactly my scene.

Now, I regretted turning him down. If only I’d known weekly core exercise would have saved me from a flesh-eating tree on my unexpected vacation to fucking Limbo.

I smelled it before I saw it, and I had to resist the urge to vomit. I was no stranger to death, but the corpses I was used to were dusty and had long since decomposed. This smell was pungent, the kind that seeped into every pore, leaving a film on your skin and hair.

The scent of decay in the air was so intense, so thick, my eyes watered and my stomach churned.

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