Melkor & Purity: Book One by Kim Faulks

Author:Kim Faulks [Faulks, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-08T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Purity

“You want to learn?” Alma leaned back against the seat while she watched me.

I grasped the icy glass and lifted the straw to my lips and nodded. The strawberry milkshake was her apology. I’d drink it, even if lactose made my belly grumble and snarl all night long. The slurp rang out for a second as I drained the remnants at the bottom, biting the strawberry seeds as they came through the straw. “I want to know everything.”

“Then you’ll want to come with me, out to my place,” she murmured. “But you’ll need to find your own way out there from now on, I don’t have the means to be driving you around.”

She was hard, not at all like I expected. “Yes, ma’am.”

“And you’ll want better clothes,” she said as she leaned to the side, peering under the table. “The boots are fine, but you need pants to move in, and a shirt that’ll cover the stains.”

Blood…she means blood.

I licked my lips. “I have black.”

One hard nod. “That’ll do just fine.”

She rose then, the apology over before it began. I gripped the straps of my pack and followed. She moved fast, gaze down, hands inching to her pockets, making her way along behind the seats of the diner to the front door.

A man shoved his seat out in an instant, pushing into the aisle. But Alma just stepped around before he’d even moved, as though she foresaw every move and every flinch.

The more I watched her, the more things just didn’t add up. Darting glances, still hands. This woman was aware of everything. I scanned the diner as she pushed through the door and stepped out into the sunlight once more.

I hurried, panicked steps trying to match hers, and fell behind. “I’m so grateful. I promise not to let you down. I’m strong.”

I lifted my hands and clenched a grip. “I can drive a stake through any heart.”

She never acknowledged me, just kept on striding toward the street and the Darkened Moon Cemetery in the distance until she slowed, nearing a beat-up navy blue Jeep.

“In,” she commanded and jerked her head toward the passenger’s side door.

A tremor of fear sank deep. I lifted my gaze as she opened the driver’s door and climbed in. She didn’t care if I stayed or sat beside her. She owed me nothing. If I wanted this, it would be all me, all work, all hard, bloody…dangerous work.

It was what I wanted…what I was signing up for.

I grasped the handle and yanked as the old Jeep fired up. The engine snarled, humming like a truck. I slipped inside, yanked the door closed behind me, and pulled on the seatbelt as Alma shoved the four-wheel-drive into gear and pulled out into the street.

“You’ll need to keep up, you hear me?” She cut me a glare. “I won’t slow down for you. I won’t take it easy on your ass. This is my world. You’re either gonna survive…or you won’t.”

I shoved the buckle into the clasp and pressed my spine against the seat as she accelerated.

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