Reaper Untamed (Deadside Reapers Book 3) by Debbie Cassidy

Author:Debbie Cassidy [Cassidy, Debbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-10T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

We stood in the alley, our backs pressed to the wall.

I fucking hated alleyways. Nothing good ever happened in an alley, and as if to prove my point, a screech ripped the air to our right, and something with a ravenous open mouth flew toward us.

“Fuck!” I grabbed Cora’s hand and tugged her after me. We broke out of the alley to see a swarm of those fuckers in the exact spot where Jasper had stood. They were on him, tearing at him.

“Don’t stop,” Cora yelled. “The building up ahead is glowing.”

It looked like all the other buildings to me, but if Cor said it was glowing, then it was glowing. We crossed the wide street, hammered across the pavement, up the path to the three-story house, and through the battered, hanging-off-its-hinges door into a musky haven.

Cora scanned the building. “This way.” She tugged me left through an arch, into a cavernous room filled with busted furniture, and through a door at the back.

“Where are we going?”

“Following the silver threads,” she said.” I assume you can’t see them?”

“Nope, but I’m happy to let you take the lead if you can.”

“I’ve been seeing a lot of shit recently,” she said. “But we can discuss this when the guys are safe.”

“You think the threads lead to the guys?”

“I know they do,” she said. “I can feel it.”

That was good enough for me. We pushed through the door into a narrow corridor that opened out into another room. It might have been a kitchen once, a huge kitchen-diner space, but it was now a blackened husk of its previous incarnation, and pinned to the wall, side by side—by what looked like inky webbing—were Azazel and Mal. Their eyes were closed, faces relaxed as if in sleep.

“Motherfucker,” Cora said.

“What do you see?”

“They’re covered in the glowing stuff, like threads, but the threads are alive, they’re fucking pulsing.”

“Feeding. This place is feeding off them.”

“I’d hurry up if I were you,” Jasper said from the doorway.

“You’re okay.” Cora blinked at him in surprise.

“Just a minor disagreement with the locals. They’ve gone to get reinforcements. The big boss or so they call him. So, chop, chop.”

I grabbed my dagger and sliced at the threads, but each cut thread was immediately replaced by another.

“It’s not working,” Cora said.

“What do I do?” I looked from Jasper to Cora. I hadn’t thought this far ahead. And then something that Conah had said surged to the forefront of my mind.

You woke me up. I remembered you, and it woke me up.

I had to touch them. I needed to join them somehow. Get inside their minds. I stepped closer.

“Yes,” Cora said. “You have to touch them.”

That was right. I went for Azazel first, placing my hand on his cheek. For a second, nothing happened, and then I was being sucked into a dark tunnel.

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