The Embers of Phoenix (The Inferno Pack Book 1) by AJ Blackburn

Author:AJ Blackburn [Blackburn, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-17T05:00:00+00:00

Ryder has been gone fifteen minutes. We have left the car at a lay by a few miles down the road, so it looks like nobody is at the cottage.

Tap…Tap…Tap.

What is that? I'm just finishing ramming the clothes I bought into my bag when I hear the noise. I stop and listen harder.

Tap…Tap…Tap.

It’s coming from out in the backyard I’m sure. Maybe the wind is just blowing something. But it sounds too deliberate. I slowly edge down the stairs and keep my hearing locked on the back door.

Tap…Tap…Tap.

It sounds like metal hitting metal. Don’t be rash now Phoenix, just stay inside, I tell myself.

Tap…Tap…Tap.

Fuck it. I stride out of the back door. I’m just freaking out being left here on my own knowing I’m going home, and that Ryder is going to be coming with me… I stop dead in my tracks. It is metal on metal alright. A huge hunting blade, tapping the frame of the climbing wall, or wall of death as I like to refer to it. The blade is in the hand of a huge male, no, a man. He’s human, I realise as his stench reaches me; stale sweat, cigarette smoke, and beer. His eyes are pure evil. A hunter. RYDER! I bellow at him as loud as my mind can shout. The hunter crooks his finger at me and invites me over. Deciding fast that I’d fight in my human skin first for as long as I can, I saunter across the yard. Looking as calm as I can, blanketing the rage inside.

“Well, well, well, you are a pretty wolf.” Using Ryder’s endearment, his cold dark eyes take me in from head to toe and back again. His appraisal of me nearly has me gagging. Where the hell had he gotten the name from? Keeping my face blank, I ignore his taunting.

“What do you want?” Not that I don’t already know, but I need to stall for Ryder to get back here.

“Isn’t it oblivious, I want you, pretty wolf,” he spits the words. His body shifts from relaxed, to a fighting stance. I prepare myself. I could take this dirty man out, no sweat, but I can scent others around. I just hope I can take them out too.

Phoenix, I’m coming, baby. I’m coming. Stay inside and I’ll be there soon. Ryder is breathless, I can hear it even in his mind. But his words have come too late, I have no chance to reply. I meet the mountain of a man head on. I snarl, bite, claw, and draw blood. He just takes every blow, and his grin gets wider with each one I land. Then he fights back. A strong kick to my side knocks the air out of my lungs. He goes for my legs to take me to the ground, but I jump over his leg. Landing, I swing my fist to just below his sternum, it’s like punching a fucking boulder, and I‘ve gotten too close I realise. His mammoth hand shoots out and grips me around the throat.

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