Moth: MM Monster Romance (Monstrous Book 5) by Lily Mayne

Author:Lily Mayne [Mayne, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Charlie

At first, I thought he’d just woken up before me, which was a regular occurrence. I stretched in the bed, feeling well rested, knowing I’d slept with Moth’s arms around me all night.

The mattress was still warm beside me, but as I sat up, I noticed Moth’s boots were on the floor beside the bed. His bag and sword rested against the nightstand, and his coat was draped over the dresser.

The house was completely silent.

Foreboding settled in the pit of my stomach as I got out of bed and hurriedly dressed.

“Moth?” I called, checking the bathroom before stepping into the hall. I looked in every room before thumping down the stairs, panic making my hairline bead with sweat.

“Moth?” I called again, even after I’d checked every room downstairs. I stood frozen in the living room for a minute, eyes darting to the front door. Had he gone outside?

Or had he vanished again?

I raced back upstairs to grab my gun, peering out the bedroom window to see if I could spot him—or any monsters or raiders—before I went outside. The street was quiet, mist still curling low on the ice-crusted, overgrown grass of the houses’ front lawns as the sun rose.

My heart was pounding as I gripped my gun and stepped outside, shivering in the cold morning air. It had snowed again, but only lightly. A white dusting covered the ground and crunched under my boots as I slowly walked down the porch steps.

I didn’t want to call for him out here, in case it attracted anything else lurking nearby. I made my way around the perimeter of the house, scanning the ground for any faint footprints in the dusting of snow.

There was nothing.

I could feel my pulse racing in my throat as I went back inside, once again standing like a statue in the middle of the living room. What the fuck was I supposed to do? My stomach was twisted up into a tight knot, a part of me wondering if he had just left me here.

But I didn’t think so. Deep down, I knew he wouldn’t do that. Even at the beginning when he’d made it clear he didn’t want me with him, I knew he would never have just fucked off and left me out here on my own. He wasn’t like that. Besides, all his stuff was still here. His boots and coat and sword. He wouldn’t have left without them.

He’d vanished again. The same thing that had happened at the prison—here one second and gone the next. But how? And where had he gone? Could he… teleport? I’d never heard of monsters being able to do that, but what did I know? There were hundreds of different types of monsters out here, and it wasn’t like they happily shared their secrets when they came across humans—especially those in the military.

He’d said at the prison that it might happen again. That he might have to leave again. He’d also said that he would come back, and I was pretty sure he’d reappeared in the snow in the exact spot he’d vanished from.

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