Night Falls (Until Dawn, Book 2) by J.N. Baker

Author:J.N. Baker [Baker, J.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-12T06:00:00+00:00

A woman stumbled clumsily through the snow a good twenty yards in front of us. “Martin?” she shouted. “Where are you, Martin?”

“Have you seen my niece?” another woman called out. “She’s a little girl, only six. She was with me on the plane. Sir, have you seen her?”

But no one had. As seconds stretched into minutes, more were reported missing. By the time we hit an hour, at least fifty people were unaccounted for and no one seemed to know where they went.

A woman who had introduced herself as Holly led us behind the castle to a trail of footprints that weaved into the forest. There was blood splattered on the ground, staining the snow crimson. We scanned the tree line to find that there were a number of bloody drag marks, most of which came straight from our people’s tents. Dragged away in their sleep. How cowardly.

“We should follow the trails before they get too far,” a woman suggested. “They might still be alive.” Her words were riling up those around her. Voices carried in the wind with talk of search and rescue. The rest of the Chosen slowly made their way to us.

“What are you, fucking stupid?” Markus asked, shoving his way through the growing crowd. “This is sure as shit a trap. You go gallivanting into that forest trying to play the hero and you’re gonna end up without a head.”

“You would have us leave them for dead?” a man beside me said. I recognized him as one of our vampires. The flash of fangs said he was anything but happy with Markus’s words.

“Listen up and listen good: your friends and family are already dead. Take a moment to grieve and move the fuck on.”

He wasn’t joking when he said “a moment.” After exactly ten seconds, Markus started shoving people away from the edge of the forest, barking orders as if nothing had happened.

“Bunch of pansy asses,” he grumbled as the crowd thinned. “It’s like they don’t realize that this is war. People die in war.” Markus turned to face William. “You need to have someone let those forest fairies know what’s going on. Baldric’s men are out there. Tell them to keep their tree-hugging eyes open.”

William nodded and motioned to Ryuu. “Go, but be careful.”

As Ryuu took off into the trees, the rest of us moved toward the castle. Apparently, word of Cindy’s death had spread farther than I’d thought if the sideways glances and blatant avoidance by the rest of our people were any indication. Outside of the Chosen, no one else seemed to want to get within six feet of me. Hell, even Cody had made a giant ass circle around me on his way out to Markus, very obviously trying to avoid eye contact. I couldn’t really blame any of them. I had killed one of our own people. Though, that didn’t make their mistrust sting any less. Cody’s especially.

Alec remained glued to my side, like my own personal bodyguard. No, bodyguard wasn’t the right word.

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