The Girl In Between series: Books 1-4 by Laekan Zea Kemp

Author:Laekan Zea Kemp [Kemp, Laekan Zea]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-10-29T04:00:00+00:00

21

Bryn

Sam was right in front of me. Solid. Whole.

Alive.

Sam was alive and I was paralyzed, the sound of her, the sight of her in this place snatching my breath and making me crumble. I knelt in front to her, speaking in a whisper. “Sam. Are you…How…?” I reached, pulled back, afraid to touch what might not be real. “Is it you?”

She smoothed the owl’s feathers, strangely content, or maybe just oblivious. For some reason she wasn’t afraid or even surprised to see me. “I fell asleep and this is where I woke up.” She wrinkled her nose. “How did you get here?”

“The same,” I said, knowing it was a lie; that maybe this was too. I just couldn’t bring myself to say more.

“You look sad, Bryn.”

My pulse was in my throat. “No, I’m…I’m really happy to see you.”

She smiled. “I’m happy to see you too.” Her eyes narrowed over my shoulder. “What’s coming?”

The sound of skittering feet forced me to my own. When I looked back the way I’d come, there was no doorway, no slit in the stone. There was a black hole. Smoke barreled down from one side of the chamber while the insects multiplied on the other, everything converging in a black tidal wave that was headed straight for us.

I pulled Sam up by the arm. “Sam, we have to go.”

“But he said I have to stay.” She was adamant. “He wants me to find something for him.”

“What did he want you to find?”

Her eyes flicked up to mine. “A body.”

I smelled rain, felt the first drops. I knew what was coming, the sound of living things muscling their way out of the stone as shapes raced across the walls.

“What’s happening?” Sam cried. Insects scaled her leg, digging into her skin, and she screamed.

There was just enough light behind us that I could see the insects rising, the crest carving itself into a man. The first guard was whole again and he hooked me by the throat, my feet coming off the ground. I coughed, tearing at him. He opened his mouth, unhinged so wide that I could see the black bodies trying to claw their way out. He pulled me in, ready to drown me with them, to devour me. I kicked him in the knee but he didn’t buckle. Sam dug her nails in his forearm, screaming, and he flung her back.

I hung there, my lips pinned closed, trying to think, to breathe. All at once the guard loosened his grip. He dropped me, both of us falling to our knees. I clutched my neck, rubbing the rawness, forcing down air. He tore at his scalp, eyes frantic and following something I couldn’t see.

Sam crawled over to me just as Sebastían appeared behind the guard. All this time I’d thought Sebastían’s eyes were black, but opened wide, churning with every element of destruction, I could see that they were jade—green and charcoal colliding as he arrowed in on the guard.

Sebastían stood in front of him, growing ten inches in every direction.

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