Wild Women Collection by Rachel Sullivan

Author:Rachel Sullivan [Sullivan, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781949090697
Publisher: City Owl Press
Published: 2019-11-27T22:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

The walk back to the empty succubi apartments was a silent one, void of words yet full of tension. We knew to be careful when approaching the apartment building; the Hunters could be there waiting for us. But we had to gather our things before high-tailing it to the safe house. Plus, whether or not the Hunters were at the apartment would tell us just how much information they’d already gotten out of the succubi, if they’d questioned them enough to know the Washington huldra coterie roamed their territory. Once we got that bit of information out of the way, we’d know better how to move forward.

Despite our being blocks from the apartments and unable to be heard or spotted by a Hunter waiting to attack us within the building, my coterie remained silent. I couldn’t decide if my sisters and aunts kept quiet because of the humans passing by on the sidewalk, or if it had more to do with a lack of answers.

We spread out to approach the three-story succubi apartment building from different directions, slinking around edges of the brick buildings behind and next door to it, crouching behind the tires of a car with Oregon plates parked across the street from it. We waited, unseen from one another, as my coterie took turns giving the all-clear through whistles too quiet for Marcus to hear. He crouched beside the car’s back wheel as I took the front.

“Okay,” I whispered to him. “That’s six whistles.”

We stood and crossed the street to make our way to the stoop. “I don’t smell anything different from when we left. Can’t hear any movement inside either. Is there a way you can sense them?” I asked, figuring it wouldn’t hurt to ask.

A smirk nearly smoothed his brow, furrowed in concentration. “No, I can’t sense them,” he said in an amused voice.

We paused after stepping onto the sidewalk directly in front of the apartment building. I wished we’d thought to bring an incubus, to know if he felt any male energy inside the building. But all things considered, with the lack of movement and sound, I was fairly certain we were alone on the property. I puckered my lips and gave a nearly silent whistle.

My sisters and aunts answered my whistle by joining us on the stoop so we could walk in together. Marcus entered the building first and I followed close behind to secure the first-floor apartments. Olivia and Celeste jogged upstairs to check the second level while Renee and Patricia checked the third. Once we gave the all-clear in our temporary housing and shut the main entry door, I realized the true answer behind my coterie’s lack of conversation since we’d left Aleksander. The absence of hope had a way of sealing mouths shut and causing hearts to stammer.

Marcus broke the wordless silence suggesting the end point we all knew needed accomplishing. Except, none of us knew how to actually accomplish it.

“They’re trapped and we need to get them out. The sooner the better.

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