Wolf's Captive (The Dragon Wolf's Queen Book 1) by Defiance Sand

Author:Defiance Sand [Sand, Defiance]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-19T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

ASHA

I did what he said and ran. I did not look back over my shoulder.

He had given me a chance to survive. I could not understand it, but I was determined to do so.

I raced back the way I had come, towards the train station. People looked at me strangely; a panicked girl, her dark hair flying. I realised in shock that my silver eye was showing. I slapped my hand over it, and prayed they hadn’t realised what it was.

As soon as I reached the first payphone, I called the Rift Emergency Hotline and reported the new rift.

“One werewolf was there fighting it,” I gabbled. “But it was getting bigger. It was ten minutes ago. You have to send reinforcements.”

And before the operator could ask me any more questions, I slammed the phone down.

I raced onto the first train that came, keeping my hand clamped over my eye. My forehead and nose were bleeding, and I was scared that my grey skin might be showing, so I let my dark hair fall over my face. I looked a pathetic mess, and I avoided the pitying glances that I saw some women shoot my way.

Most people just looked disgusted and stayed away from me, which suited me perfectly fine.

After a couple of stops, I got off the train. There was no way I was going to be able to go home now. I wasn’t brave enough to face up to the possibility that Dane might have sent people there to wait for me.

He thought I was a murderer. Now I had escaped, that would be as good as proof to him. And what would he think once Karl Van Cleave told him that I was also the Silver Princess?

Laughing bitterly at myself, I limped out of the train station. Just two years ago I had finally dragged myself out of homelessness, but now here I was, as good as homeless again.

I was exhausted, my entire body aching from where Karl had beaten me, and there was only one place I could go. I had kept one of the old warehouses that I used to live in is an emergency bolthole.

I limped there now. Watching over my shoulder to make sure no one was following me, I criss-crossed down a convoluted route of alleyways, then across a patch of barren ground towards my warehouse.

I entered by a broken window with a sigh of relief.

Pausing inside a darkened hallway, I listened hard for a long time. All I heard was the usual creaky pipes and howling wind that filled this place. Nobody else was in here, and I was relieved.

I had not been back here for some months. The last time I had come was to replace my stash of potions, make-up and emergency foods.

I hurried across the warehouse now to what used to be my old bedroom. Locating my key where I had hidden it under some loose panelling, I let myself into my old refuge.

I was finally safe.

A shocking realisation hit me all at once.

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