The Demon Hunter (Book 1) by Jennifer Martucci & Christopher Martucci

Author:Jennifer Martucci & Christopher Martucci [Martucci, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

After only a couple of hours of sleep, my eyes pop open. Overwhelmed by the same feeling that gripped me in the hospital a few nights ago, I sit bolt upright, heart pounding and skin tingling with awareness. I scan my room half-expecting to see someone there, or something. But all that surrounds me is the darkness, and a presence so strong it settles deep within me, tugging me, unmistakable, undeniable. I try to lie back down, try to squeeze my eyes shut and sleep once again, but my efforts are futile. The pull is too powerful. I cannot ignore it any more than I can ignore the beat of my own heart, for the pull thrums in time with my lifeblood.

Fearing I’m having an episode related to the trauma of being shot as the doctor suggested, I try to gain control of my emotions. I sit at the edge of my bed and close my eyes. I breathe, filling my belly when I inhale deeply and exhaling through lips pursed to form a small “o” and focus on calm. I envision soothing landscapes—a gently rolling river, fall leaves twirling as they cascade to the ground—and try to distance myself from the inexplicable power drawing me away from my bed to an unknown location. But trying to detach from it is a waste of time. It’s simply too potent. It commands my limbs, demands that I move immediately.

Sliding forward, I slip from my bed, cross my room and quickly dress in the jeans and short-sleeved T shirt that sit on my dresser. A glance at the clock on my nightstand reads that it’s four minutes past midnight. Where I’m going or what I’m doing at this hour remains a mystery. All I know is that I’m in what feels like a magnetic field of energy, the air charged and shivering with currents of electricity, with raw volts of power. It seeps into my veins, infusing me, overtaking me.

Within seconds, my sneakers are on and I’m stealing down the hallway past my mother’s room and past my sister’s room. Both of them are asleep, the house is cast in shadows caused by the streetlights outside. Padding into the kitchen, I slide my mother’s car keys from a small bowl on the counter then open the front door, careful to close it behind me gently.

Griping the keys so tightly the metal bites into the tender flesh of my palms, I forego the elevator in favor of the staircase and make it down three flights to the lobby in no time. I step outside, into the cool night, and jog toward the lot to the left of the building. All the while, I feel as if my body has been commandeered by a foreign entity, a dark passenger who travels with me, claiming my body but not all of my mind.

I have no idea what I’m doing or where I’m headed, how I lost control of my actions entirely and am now little more than a puppet to a force greater than myself, just that it’s happened.

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