Taken Over (Book 2 The Ravening Series) by Stevens Erica

Author:Stevens, Erica [Stevens, Erica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-05-26T00:00:00+00:00

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“Have you discovered anything?”

Bishop lifted his head from the microscope. His brow was furrowed as he blinked rapidly at me. “I uh, I’m not sure.”

I frowned at him as I stepped down onto the porch. “What do you mean you’re not sure?”

He shook his head and pushed his glasses up his nose as he took a step away from the microscope. “Maybe it’s because the blood is old,” he muttered.

“I don’t understand; you need a fresh sample?”

“Yes, yes that must be it. A fresh sample will solve everything.”

“Solve everything?”

I was completely confused by what he was saying, but he didn’t seem to notice as he roamed around in search of something. His mutters to himself made my frown deepen and my heartbeat picked up. What was wrong with him? What was wrong with the blood? What was wrong with me?

“Bishop?”

He lifted a syringe into the air; the needle at the end glistened in the light and caused me to take a step back. His eyebrows were drawn together as he looked over the needle to me. “It’s nothing to worry about Bethy, I’m sure the samples were just contaminated somehow. They have been moved around a lot, and I haven’t been able to keep them stored as properly as I would have liked. I’m sure that’s the reason for the abnormalities.”

I wasn't exactly pleased by his choice of words. “Abnormalities?” I croaked.

“It’s nothing a new sample won’t clear right up.”

“Bishop what the hell are you talking about?” I demanded.

His attention had already been diverted back to his machines; he seemed to have simply forgotten the syringe in his hand. A cold chill crept down my spine, the hair on the nape of my neck stood on end. I had been so detached lately, so cold, and unfeeling. What if there was something wrong with me? Was it somehow because of the injury I'd received on the beach, perhaps some strange germ the thing had given me? I'd been deadened since Cade died and I had blamed my detachment on his loss, but was there something wrong with me?

My heart pounded rapidly in my chest, my hands were shaking as I shoved them into the pockets of my jeans. I had to fight the urge to turn and flee, to bolt into the woods and bury myself in the solace that they offered. Not now, not during the day, I told myself sternly. But tonight I could run and run, and then maybe I could sleep for a little while again. It had been amazing to sleep the sleep of the dead for the past five nights. There were no dreams, no nightmares to plague me within the woods.

Maybe it was the running that did it. Maybe I was just so exhausted by the time I collapsed that it was nearly impossible for me to dream. I didn’t think it was that though, I thought it was the simple pleasure of being able to do something freeing, something wild. Something that

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