Pack - 04 New Pack Order by Eve Langlais

Author:Eve Langlais
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Head throbbing, Thea woke to find herself in the backseat of David’s car. Lifting a hand to her face, she ran fingers over her fat lip and gasped when they came away bloody. Memories of what happened back at the apartment with David, only it wasn’t him, made her scramble to sit upright.

“Rise and shine,” he sang from the front, his eyes, still pinpricked with red, peering at her through the rearview mirror. “We’re almost there.”

“Almost where? Where are you taking me? What the hell do you want?” she cried. She pounded at his shoulders, oblivious to the fact he drove. He didn’t flinch, but he did laugh, a chilling sound that halted her more effectively than violence. She leaned back in the seat and whispered, “What are you?”

“Crazy?” He said it on a questioning note as he swerved the car back and forth across the road. Thea squeaked as she ricocheted, side to side.

“Stop it!” she cried. “You’ll kill us both.”

He didn’t reply, instead whistling an off-pitch melody as he careened through the darkness. No lights lit the road they were on, and trees flanked them on both sides, dark sentinels that blurred as he raced along. When he did finally brake, she caught herself just in time on the passenger seat in front of her, the momentum propelling her forward. Before she could count her stars she’d not hit the windshield, David was dragging her out of the back by the hair.

“Let go of me, you psycho,” she yelled.

“No. No and no,” he sang. “You’re coming with me.” He continued to tug her painfully across the graveled parking lot to the shadowed treeline.

Pissed at his treatment, and very frightened, she fought him, hitting and scratching, stomping and kicking. None of it freed her, and a headbutt was all it took to knock her out.

When next she woke, she found herself crumpled on a dusty wooden floor. From her prone position, she could see the frayed bottom edge of a plaid couch and a whole family of dust bunnies. Someone needs to invest in a broom. An insane thought to match an unreal evening.

Despite the throbbing pain in her head, she pushed herself to her hands and knees, then stood. Dizziness made her wobble, and she spent a moment blinking until the room stopped moving. She surveyed the area. No one sat on the sofa nor at the scarred Formica seventies table behind it. Beyond those relics was an open kitchen, its butcher-block countertop piled high with refuse and dirty dishes, pizza boxes, cans of pop, wrappers, a plate with something green and fuzzy growing from it.

Not seeing anyone, or an exit—which she really wanted before she ran into crazy David again—she whirled. And screamed!

Standing behind her, silent and unmoving was a man, a gaunt creature whose skin stretched over the bones of his face, with tufted dark hair sprinkled with silver. But it was his eyes, red and burning, yet his gaze oh so cold, that saw her stumbling back.

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