Nightmares (The Coven, Book 1) by Erica Stevens

Author:Erica Stevens
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, love, occult, paranormal romance, paranormal, young adult, witches, demons, series, action and suspense
Publisher: Erica Stevens

CHAPTER 23

Avery gasped when she saw the room. Cavernous with white, concrete walls and large fluorescent lights hanging from the steel beams running across the ceiling thirty feet over her head, it was completely unexpected. The lights reflected off the floor and sparkled in the clear water of the Olympic-sized swimming pool in the center of the room.

“Wow,” Rosie breathed as she turned to examine the room. “This is amazing!”

When Avery released the knob, she jumped when the door slammed shut behind her. The sound of it echoed off the walls and sent ripples across the pristine water. She glanced back, and her shoulders slumped when she discovered a white wall in place of the door.

“Guess we start looking.” Although she’d whispered, her words reverberated through the room until she heard herself saying them fifty more times.

Rosie’s awe faded as she gazed around the room with growing dread. “Yeah.”

A set of blue doors were set into the wall at the shallow end of the pool. Behind those doors was the only place a person could be in the room. Their feet slapped against the concrete floor and rebounded off the ceiling as they walked around the pool toward the doors.

“Who do you think it is?” Rosie asked.

“Lila.”

“Makes sense.”

Avery threw open the blue doors to reveal pool equipment filling its thirty-by-thirty-foot room. Hoses slithered across the ground, and nets leaned against the walls. Rafts, floats, and beach balls littered the floor. Barrels of chlorine were lined against the back wall and stacked all the way to the ceiling.

Avery and Rosie exchanged a resigned look before they stepped forward to start going through the mess. They tossed things out the doors as they carved their way through the chaos. They’d almost cleared the room when Avery lifted a deflated orange raft and came face to face with Alex. She blinked at him in surprise and then broke into a smile; he wasn’t the person she’d expected to find, but it was good to see him.

“It’s Alex,” she breathed.

Alex made a muffled cry against his gag and tried to sit up, but his bound appendages made it difficult for him to move. Rosie arrived at her side as Avery pulled the cloth from his mouth.

“Thanks,” he croaked. “I feel like I’ve been in here for days.”

“I think it’s only been hours,” Rosie said. She bent to untie the ropes binding his ankles as Avery worked at the knots on his wrists.

“Who else have you found?” he asked.

“Just Rosie.”

Alex sighed when the ropes around his wrists gave way. He rubbed his freed hands together as Rosie pulled the rope away from his ankles. When he climbed to his feet, he teetered on unsteady legs. Avery clasped his arm to steady him until he regained his balance.

“Thanks,” he muttered.

She smiled as she released his arm. “No problem.”

“Are there any more rules?” he inquired.

“Avery can’t leave the house, but everyone is supposed to be in here,” Rosie said.

“Then we will find them,” he said. “Whatever this place is, it’s his world.

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