Lost by Lori Devoti

Author:Lori Devoti
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-02-21T22:05:28.705000+00:00

Chapter Four

Rachel stumbled forward. The first signs of sun colored the horizon a dusky rose. Sometime in the night rain had fallen. The road curled around the hill, black and shiny. The world was quiet and peaceful.

She wanted to walk, and to keep walking. Everything would be okay if she kept walking.

Her foot sent something clattering off into the weeds. She stared after the sound. A shiny silver disc winked at her from just beyond the road.

A hubcap. She frowned.

An ache began right between her eyes. She pressed her thumb to the spot. She couldn’t remember where she was going...or even where she had been.

Her gaze drifted back to the hubcap.

Flashy and expensive looking, like the ones on Nancy’s car.

The atmosphere seemed to shift, like a blind had been lifted. The road wasn’t quiet and peaceful. It was deserted and alone.

The temperature dropped too. Rachel shoved her hands into the pockets of her hoodie and hunched her shoulders against the sudden cold.

What the hell was she doing? Where did she think she was going? No phone. Deserted road. It could be days before someone came across her.

Except...if Nancy and the others had been rescued, they’d realize she was missing. They’d send someone back for her.

Hope flickered. She took another step, but something made her stop, an awareness. She glanced over her shoulder.

Cameron stood just off the road, watching her. He’d come back.

Relief thick and hot washed over her. She lifted her hand to wave him forward, but he was gone...disappeared.

The ache returned between her eyes.

She was imagining things, wanting things and creating them in her mind.

She looked back at the highway.

The winding road led to town and safety, led to a world where everything would be okay.

Cameron disappeared, the memory of the vehicle and her friends’ broken bodies disappeared. All that existed was the road and the knowledge that she should be walking down it.

She passed the hubcap. It shone on her like a beacon as she shuffled by. Her foot landed on a skid mark that bisected the road. She stared down.

Something stirred in the brush.

Slowly, she looked up and stared into the face of a monster.

She opened her mouth and screamed.

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Cameron didn’t hear Rachel’s scream; he felt it, like stake piercing his heart. Panic wrapped around his body and jerked him around.

His feet flew across the ground he had just traveled. His nostrils flared as he ran and his fangs grew heavy.

His body preparing for attack.

As he raced to the spot where he had left Rachel, he cursed. The sun was up. He couldn’t go to her, not without being fried.

Then as his feet slowed, he realized what that meant. If Cameron couldn’t get to her, neither could Dorian. She was safe from his brother.

He stopped a few feet from the end of the cursed ground.

Rachel stood with her back to him in the middle of the road. She was staring directly into the rising sun, to the east. Cameron couldn’t follow her line of vision, couldn’t bring his sun sensitive eyes to stare that directly into the light.

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