Nightmare Rising (Kings of Sorrows and Dreams Book 2) by Cari Silverwood & Nicolette Hugo
Author:Cari Silverwood & Nicolette Hugo [Silverwood, Cari & Hugo, Nicolette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cari Silverwood
Published: 2020-09-13T18:30:00+00:00
CHAPTER 20
Zara
Inside the house smelled of burnt earth from all the gunfire. The water and electricity had been turned off long ago. The place was a smoky tomb for things that should never have existed. Weâd made our way to the front porch to do what Val called an autopsy of the action.
He sat with his back to the timber of the house and I sat beside himâa different spark still burning between us. For a moment, in the middle of the fighting, the crazy, weâd stood back-to-back, together, a team. Now the ghost of him still pressed up against my skin. Masculine. Dangerous. Sexy.
I exhaled slowly and looked everywhere but at him.
The house faced west, so the shadow was cast a long way into the yard before us.
Funny, it wasnât even noon yet.
The faeries buzzed around Valâs head for a while, as if testing him for a landing platform, but when Neme arrived, they changed their minds. For a ferocious-looking wolf, she was accommodating of faeries. They settled into her coat where she lay on the porch. I would swear they were asleep.
That didnât seem right for dream creatures.
Rose and Samuel had explored every inch of the house before joining us. Theyâd both decided to sit to either side of the broad set of steps leading to the ground.
âNothing else in there?â I asked.
Samuel spread his hands. âNo. Nothing. The people took some of their stuff. Not all.â
So the house was indeed empty. If it hadnât been, weâd be in big trouble explaining the bullet holes.
Had they left because of the creatures? Could they have sensed them? You didnât just up and leave a farm you owned, and the sign didnât say it was a bank debt recovery sale. âWhyâd they leave?â
He only shrugged. âIs there anything you need us to do, Mistress? Before we go?â
âWhat? Hold on.â I tugged out my phone and typed in a web search for the property. It was for sale, and nothing there on the realtorâs site told me more.
But when I popped back to the original search, further down was a news item about an event that had happened on the farm about five months ago.
âCrap,â I whispered.
âFound something?â Val reached out to grab the phone.
The look on my face stopped him dead. He raised his palms as if in surrender and even though I could sense it pained him, he waited for me to read.
I scanned the news item again and my mouth dried. This wasnât the original news; it was an aftermath story. âJeez. The manâs wife drowned in the creek.â
âYour creek, where weââ
I nodded. âIt was an accident.â
But was that true? I was beginning to wonder about cause and effect. What if this was what nightmare creatures did to humans? Stirred them to anger or depression or sadnessâpick your favorite bad emotionâmade them prone to acts of violence?
âThey thought she took her own life as the creek isnât that deep. Then the husband came close to suicide as well. He was revived at the hospital after overdosing on his wifeâs old drugs.
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