Shades of Human (Faerie-Tail Awakening Book 1) by J.L. Myers

Author:J.L. Myers [Myers, J.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-26T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Leaping off the bus, I pounded the pavement, tearing down the street until I reached the alley. It was still daylight, the sun high enough in the sky to light everything up while being low enough to create shadows that seemed to lengthen with each slowing step I took. My eyes peeled wide as I tried to keep my breaths level. The remains of last night were nowhere to be seen. Actually, the closer I crept, the more that became apparent. There wasn’t even a splinter of the mirror to be seen…

The lack of danger should have quieted my heart and afforded me the return of some calm. It didn’t. Voices, sightings, threats, a stalker, and now even my own reflection. Was any of it even real or was I falling off the deep end?

To prove my insanity wrong my hand glided up my neck to…my pointed ear.

“Real,” I gasped out.

Heart walloping all over again, I took off running. I didn’t know what I was running from. The danger was gone, and I couldn’t run from myself. Whatever was happening to me—oh, God, please don’t let me be turning into that monster I killed!—I wanted to escape it. I wanted to lock myself away, hide under my covers, and sleep until this whole nightmare was over with.

I hit the rickety bridge at a dead run, engulfed by cold darkness as the bordering trees enveloped me. My shitty trusted shoes found the right spots that wouldn’t crack the deteriorating planks under my gait and deliver me to the dark tumbling river below. A river that I suddenly wondered if monsters would clamber out of to drag me down into an abyss.

I ran faster.

I was almost there, the rusted walls of the warehouse were in sight beyond the darkness—and then I hit a brick wall.

Stumbling back from the tall, dark figure, I hit the railing, palm eating splinters as a crack erupted. The wood gave way. There was no stopping my forward momentum. I tipped, body spinning and arms pinwheeling without effect—and then a strong hand caught my wrist and hauled me back.

Slamming into the hardest chest I’d ever felt, my breath left me, lungs winded from the double hit. And then I saw his face with all its devastatingly sharp lines and rough masculinity. Breathing as hard as I was, Adamaris’s eyes drilled down into me, but then a clank had him releasing his stronghold. I fell backward, hitting wooden planks that creaked with the threat of snapping. My backside bloomed with heat as a new bruise came alive. “What the hell are you doing here?”

Swooping up the round item that had fallen and laid precariously close to the edge of a plank, ready to tip into the babbling water below, Sexonlegs glared, ignoring me to turn his attention to…

“Hey!” I shoved up to my feet, biting my lip as the splinters in my palm stabbed in deeper. “Dammit!” Adamaris turned away, and I grabbed his arm with my good hand.

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