Unpredictable by Laken Cane

Author:Laken Cane [Cane, Laken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

She regretted the cowboy’s desertion, for he was human, company, and familiar with the woods. Having someone to talk to would have made the unfamiliar, echoing woods less frightening.

Yes, she was changed.

But she was still afraid.

She had no idea where to go. She’d take a few steps, then stop to listen. Her breathing was strained, her heart thumped too hard against her ribs, and the deeper she went into the woods, the more hopeless she felt.

She finally decided the cowboy was an asshole. He could have offered her some help, but when he’d discovered she couldn’t aid him in his quest to return to his world and his Others, he’d simply lost interest.

Maybe he’d thought there was no help for her.

Overhead, the crows continued to caw.

Perhaps Jewel was in her head, but if she was, Abby didn’t feel her.

She walked, and walked, and walked. And still, she didn’t find another person.

“They’re in places you don’t want to find…”

She shivered, then finally stopped to feed and water the dogs. She had some water, but her stomach was in knots and the lump of fear in her throat was too large to allow any food to pass.

What if she never found her alpha?

What if Jewel was mistaken? What if she couldn’t get Abby out of the woods?

What if Abby was now just another person doomed to wander the edge of hell forever?

After she’d fed the dogs, they continued walking once again. Sadie and Elmer bounced along in good spirits, but Abby’s doubt never left her.

She realized quite suddenly that the woods were beginning to darken, and the wind had picked up. The temperature dropped abruptly as the sun disappeared, and suddenly the moon was there.

It hung over the woods, huge and white, and where there had been full, leafy trees only moments before, there were now only naked, reaching branches.

“What on earth?” she muttered. She hadn’t dressed for cold. Her jacket would help if it rained, and it was lovely with its large pockets, but it was not meant for cold weather.

Yet the cold came anyway.

And someone was following her.

She felt his stare like a heavy, greasy film covering her back, and the short hairs on the nape of her neck lifted in response.

Sadie whirled suddenly, her hackles raised, a low growl drifting from her throat. Elmer stood beside her, quiet, but watchful.

“What is it?” Abby whispered. She missed her wand. Surely the staff would do more than even the wand could have done, combined as it was with Camilla and the magic of the woods, but her wand’s familiar grip would have comforted her.

She tightened her fingers on the staff, murmured a few words, and sent a ball of blue light out into the night. “Illuminate the lurker,” she whispered.

The ball of light shot into the sky, hung there for a few breathless seconds, then began a free fall back toward the ground. And then, it simply disappeared.

Abby gasped and stepped back, a hand to her chest.

The spell, the power, had been blocked.

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