Sins of the Past: A Bill of the Dead False Icons Crossover by Rick Gualtieri & R.E. Carr

Author:Rick Gualtieri & R.E. Carr [Gualtieri, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Freewill Press
Published: 2021-05-10T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

Ed

“Can you maybe get your elbow out of my fucking face?”

“You’re lucky you still have a face,” I half snapped, half coughed. “We all are.”

“Speaking of elbows and the parts attached to them,” Holly said, “I highly recommend you take your hand off my tits!”

“Sorry,” Dave replied, sounding not sorry in the least. “Was just making sure you were okay. I am a doctor after all.”

“Former doctor,” I corrected, pushing myself to my hands and knees and taking in our surroundings.

We’d gotten luckier than we had any reason to hope for. Though the cave we’d been in seemed to be all but collapsed, somehow the bit of shelter we’d found had managed to weather the storm with not much more than some minor debris dropping on us.

Better yet, what I’d thought to be a dead-end alcove was apparently nothing of the sort. The cave in had dislodged a section of wall behind us, beyond which seemed to be another tunnel ... or make that a hallway, as the dust cleared and I was able to see more.

Fuck it. Anything was better than where we were.

“Do you think the others made it?” Dave asked. His voice was calm, but his vitals spoke otherwise. I could hear his heart speeding up, the blood rushing through his veins.

Oh shit. That wasn’t good. Maybe I should’ve grabbed another blood pack or two back at the hotel.

“I said...”

“I fucking heard you,” I replied, trying to push thoughts of his blood away. “I have no clue, nor do I...” Hold on! Maybe I was thinking about this the wrong way.

“Yo, Berry Girl,” Dave called out, switching tactics. “How about you? Maybe you can talk with the dirt like your friend did and find out if...”

“Call me Berry Girl again and you’re going to learn how quickly I can tear yours off.” Holly paused, then cocked her head in the darkness. “But no. I can’t sense my sisters. There’s too much shifting debris. They’ve either been crushed to death, or are too far...”

I ignored the rest, considering what this meant for us, for me. I knew my luck. The chances that Gan had been flattened into a pancake, thus saving all of us from her particular brand of crazy, seemed too good to be true.

That said, she was likely trapped, which wasn’t the worst thing in the world. Hell, even if Serena and her friends were there, too, it’s not like they could easily teleport out of this prison. Gan had said so herself. That meant there was a chance.

If I could find my way back to the surface before she did...

But what about Dave?

A part of me wished I was as heartless as most of the vampires I’d met in the past. If so, it would have been easy as pie to kill the shit out of him and leave it at that. And it’s not like the dipshit didn’t deserve it in some small way.

But I wasn’t some wanton killer, nor did I care to become one.

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