Rune Thief: An Urban Fantasy Novel (Isabella Hush Series Book 1) by Thea Atkinson

Author:Thea Atkinson [Atkinson, Thea & Atkinson, Thea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, dark urban fantasy, womens adventure, new adult urban fantasy, contemporary urban paranormal, Supernatural, supernatural fantasy series, psychological thriller, Supernatural Thriller, supernatural crime, urban fantasy thriller, supernatural worlds, fiction series with mythical creatures, supernatural crime fiction, supernatural mystery, supernatural urban fantasy series, supernatural thriller heist, supernatural thriller series heist, urban fantasy with sorcerer fae, urban fantasy series with sorcerer fae, urban fantasy trilogy with sorcerer fae, new adult and college fantasy series for women, urban fantasy series slow burn romance, fast-paced urban fantasy, urban fantasy supernatural crime, Shifters, sorcerer, magical objects and artifacts, romantic fantasy, vampire romance, Witches and Wizards, Contemporary Fantasy, strong female character, slow burn romance, Alpha Male, vampire man human woman, paranromal mystery
Publisher: Thea Atkinson
Published: 2018-01-16T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

I STARTED TO PROTEST, but in the next instant, his hand left my wrist to shoot up to my neck. Those long fingers of his dug into my jaw while the heel of his hand rammed hard into my voice box.

I gagged as I tried to swallow and my eyes shed water. I didn't expect him to hoist me by my chin up above his head, and as my feet lifted off from the ground, it became harder to breathe. I gurgled beneath his grip as I fought to suck in air.

I had lived in the city for three long years, and I'd lived with hoodlums before that. I knew a city's underbelly. I knew people wouldn't want to get involved. They'd try to hide their gazes in their purses or their feet as they shuffled past things that made them uncomfortable, but I thought surely someone would be aghast enough at a woman my size being hoisted several feet into the air by her neck that they'd try to intervene. Shoot off a phone call to the police. Point. Stare. Something.

No one did anything. It was as though they couldn't even see me.

My eyes rolled in their sockets toward the door of the pizza parlor, hoping to see my drunk.

I rolled my eyes back toward the street, hoping for an outraged expression in the crowd and finding nothing but disinterested strangers.

I tried to call out to someone and coughed instead. The stranger's grip tightened.

"You haven't answered me," he growled.

As if I could with his hand cutting off my wind. I tried to kick him in the shins and found I didn't even have the strength for that.

My eyes flicked sideways over my assailant's shoulder again, hoping to see my old drunk strolling out from the pizza parlor with two slices of pizza in his hands. I wished so hard I almost expected to smell the oregano, and then I realized I couldn't in fact smell anything.

I couldn't feel a waft of breeze whisper along my cheek. Everything seemed to be filtered through a wash of UV light or night vision goggles. Nothing was clear anymore. Colors that should be vibrant echoes of yellow streetlights and neon signs shifted into a greenish glow, and what wasn't tainted by an absinthe-esque hue was blurred and mottled as though the scene was a drawing on a chalkboard that something had run their sleeve over.

I had passed out before. Once when Scottie decided that his new favorite kind of sex play involved choking the breath out of me. This wasn't like that. This was just sort of... Dead feeling.

"Where is the rune?" the man said.

I struggled to meet his eye, to try to tell him without words that I didn't have it. To tell him that if he didn't stop soon I would never be able to get it or find out where it was.

His face was as placid as a lake at dusk. He felt nothing for my welfare, that was obvious.

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