Perdition by PM Drummond

Author:PM Drummond [Drummond, PM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Publisher: Kindle Press
Published: 2016-07-18T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

THE ROAD BACK

The motorcycles skidded to a stop in front of the cabin. I closed my eyes and reached out past the buzzing energy all around my enclosure to where I thought the bikes might be. I didn’t feel any life static.

Rune.

Out in the compound, the wolf fight continued. Heavy, booted footsteps thudded in the doorway. Waves of thrumming rolled through the air. Each wave built until it vibrated my chest. The scrabbling at the enclosure stopped. Growls and barking turned to snarls and whines and retreated to the back of the enclosure.

“Friends.” Rune’s voice was low and powerful. “I do not wish to cause you discomfort. Please leave and let me remove the woman safely.”

The thrumming stopped. Tension and anger permeated the air, but the wolves didn’t move. Rune’s footsteps echoed a loud measured cadence to the corner near the door.

“I thank you for keeping my woman safe,” Rune continued, “and for leaving me so I may help her from her confinement. We have helped one another many times in the past, and I am indebted to you and generations of your clan, whom I have known.”

The snarls outside in the compound rose to a fevered pitch. It sounded like a dozen wolves, but I was only picking up on two energy sources. Suddenly, one of the wolves screamed in pain and was quiet.

Inside the cabin, the tension continued from the wolves—a low rumbling of growls. The wolves advanced and the growls grew stronger.

Another pair of heavy, booted footsteps entered the cabin and joined Rune. No energy signal was attached to the new person.

The wolves neared the center of the cabin next to my enclosure. A steady pressure built from Rune and his companion, and I recognized the added thrum as the same one I’d felt at Rune’s place. It belonged to Griss.

As the wolves inched forward, the pressure from the two vampires built. I jumped as my ponytail lifted and the hair on my arms stood on end.

A limping step thumped up the steps into the cabin. The vampire thrumming stopped.

“Enough!” Bader’s voice boomed. “Stand down.” His voice was gravely and his words slurred. His energy felt part wolf and part human, or as close to human as Bader was earlier when I talked to him. His energy was tinged with the dark red of pain.

The wolves retreated a few feet but continued to growl.

“I said enough!” Bader said. “I am clan leader when the elders are away. You will do as I say or face the pack elders.”

Bader limped over to Rune and Griss and spoke to the wolves again. “Leave now. If I say it again, it’s a death sentence to whoever hears it.”

The wolves bounded from the cabin, some still growling.

“Marlena,” Rune’s voice felt like velvet on my ears. “Fotia, are you all right?”

It took a few tries to speak past my tightened throat.

“Yes,” I said at last, “I’m okay.”

Tears of relief sprang to my eyes, but I refused to let them fall. Someone shook the tables and benches that made up my shelter.

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