Silas by V. J. Chambers

Author:V. J. Chambers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic suspense, college, romantic thriller, v j chambers, college romance, new adult, slow burn

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

When I woke up, I didn’t move. I wasn’t sure how long I’d been out, and I didn’t know if Rolf and the others were watching me. It was full dark. I was cold.

I was afraid to get up. I was afraid to call for Christa. What if they were waiting for me to go to her, and they’d ambush us then? What if they’d kill her right in front of me, and it would be my fault, because I called out to her.

So I waited.

It felt like hours.

I was covered in my own sticky, dried blood. My clothes were ruined, full of bullet holes, drenched in blood.

I felt half-dead already, even though I was still breathing.

“Silas?” A whispered voice.

I didn’t move. That sounded like Christa, but maybe it was a trap.

“Silas, Jesus, don’t actually be dead.” She knelt down next to me.

I looked up. It was her. “Christa. What about Rolf?”

“Gone,” she said. “He and the others left a while ago. I could hear them talking about how they were going to have fun hunting you down over and over again. They said you were the best prey they’d ever had, because you never die.”

I got to my feet, groaning. “Great. That sounds like a blast.”

She handed me the canteen. It was full of water. “I filled this up after they left. You were still out of it.”

I drained the entire thing, sucking down the cool, sweet liquid. Water had never tasted so good to me. Dying and coming back really took a lot out of me, and my body wasn’t at its best. “How long was I out of it?”

“A long time,” she said.

“It’s taking me longer than usual to recover,” I said. “My body must be worn down. Can’t heal quickly if I’m run down.”

“What do you think that means? Do you think that you could get to point where you don’t heal at all?”

“I don’t know. Far as I know, no one else who has the serum has ever let their bodies get so run down.” I chuckled. “That’d show Rolf, wouldn’t it? He wouldn’t be able to hunt me forever if I eventually just died of sheer exhaustion and hunger.”

She didn’t laugh. “Why did he say that he was going to show you what it was like to see a woman you care about stolen from you?”

I cast my glance away from her.

“What the hell does that mean, Silas?” she said.

“Nothing,” I said. “It doesn’t mean anything, because I’m not going to let him get his hands on you.”

She shivered, hugging herself. “And this is all because you slept with his wife.”

I was sick of the way they all kept blaming me for Sylvia. “You know, I didn’t really have a choice. I had to sleep with his wife.”

She raised her eyebrows. “What are you talking about?”

I shook my head. “Nothing. Never mind.”

“No,” she said. “You’re going to tell me what the hell you meant by that.”

“We need to find someplace to hide,” I said.

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