Midnight Breed 5 - Veil of Midnight by Adrian Lara

Author:Adrian, Lara
Language: eng
Format: epub

Midnight Breed 5 - Veil of Midnight

CHAPTER Seventeen

As Nikolai came awake, he wondered why he wasn’t dead. He felt like hell, eyes slow to open in the dark, muscles sluggish as he took a mental inventory of his current condition. He remembered blood and agony, arrest and torture at the hands of a bastard called Fabien. He remembered running—or, rather, someone else running while he stumbled and struggled just to stay upright.

He remembered darkness all around him, cold metal beneath him, drums pounding relentlessly in his head. And he distinctly remembered a pistol being pointed in his direction. A pistol that went off by his own command.

Renata.

She been the one holding that gun. Aiming it at him to prevent him from attacking her like some kind of monster. Why hadn’t she killed him like he’d wanted? For that matter, why had she come looking for him at the containment facility in the first place? Didn’t she realize she might have been killed right along with him?

He wanted to be pissed off that she would do something that reckless, but a more reasonable part of him was just damned grateful to be breathing. Even if breathing was about all he was capable of doing at the moment.

He groaned and rolled over, expecting to feel the hard floor of the truck under his body. Instead he felt a soft mattress, a fluffy pillow cradling his head. A light cotton blanket covered his nakedness.

What the hell? Where was he now?

He vaulted up to a sitting position and was rewarded with a violent lurch of his gut. “Ah, fuck,” he murmured, sick and light-​headed.

“Are you all right?” Renata was here with him. He didn’t see her at first, but now she was getting up from the tattered chair where she’d been sitting a moment ago. She padded over to the bed. “How are you feeling?”

“Like shit,” he said, his tongue thick, mouth desert dry.

He winced as a small bedside lamp clicked on. “You look better. A lot better, actually. Your eyes are back to normal and your fangs have receded.”

“Where are we?”

“Someplace safe.”

He looked around at the eclectic jumble of the room: mismatched furniture, storage bins stacked against one of the walls, a small collection of artist’s canvases in various stages of completion leaning between two file cabinets, a small closet of a bathroom with floral-​patterned towels and a quaint claw-​footed tub. But it was the shutterless window arranged directly across the room from the bed that really clued him in. It was deep night on the other side of the glass right now, but by morning the room would be flooded with UV light.

“This is a human residence.” He didn’t mean for it to sound like an accusation, especially when it was his own damned fault he was in this situation. “Where the hell are we, Renata? What’s going on here?”

“You were in bad shape. It wasn’t safe for us to keep traveling in the supply truck when the Enforcement Agency and possibly Lex as well would be looking for it as soon as the sun set—”

“Where are we?” he demanded.

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