Beyond the Darkness by Rush Jaime

Author:Rush, Jaime [Rush, Jaime]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Paranormal, Fiction
ISBN: 9780062096562
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2011-11-29T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

The car seemed to roll for a long time, though it was only for a few seconds. Yurek was thrown violently around, finally smashing against the door and crumpling in a heap. His body was twisted, battered, and he couldn’t seem to move.

The sound of glass shattering and the thud of the car still echoed in his senses. He didn’t know how long he remained there, but he heard thudding footsteps coming closer. The hunter? Pope? For a moment he didn’t care, just wanted it over. The pain was overwhelming.

It was the Glouk’s face that appeared through the broken window. “Are you alive?”

“Yes. Get me out of here.”

After some jiggling sounds, the Glouk said, “I can’t open the door. It’s dented.” He broke out the jagged bits of glass from the edges of the window frame, then reached in and pulled on Yurek’s shoulders. Slowly, painfully, Baal inched him out the window. Glouks were strong, which was what made them so useful.

Yurek stumbled but caught his balance with the hood of the car. He was standing by sheer will. The will to live. To succeed. “We have to leave. They’ll be back for us.”

The car was smashed, the engine dead. He’d stolen it from a car lot. He would miss it. They loped toward the cover of forest. Baal was limping, and Yurek saw a shiny bloodstain on his pant leg.

They walked deep into the woods. “This is good,” Yurek said, strain evident in his voice. He couldn’t go another step. He collapsed on the floor of pine needles, his body wracked with pain. It would take a while to mend. “That did not go well.”

Baal dropped beside him, wincing as he pressed his hand over the cut on his leg. He looked at Yurek. He had the tone of someone who had been scorned. “You could have thought about me being on top of the vehicle when you decided to ram it.” He tore away the fabric to reveal what was obviously a knife wound on his thigh.

The Glouk morphed to canine form, his long tongue lashing the cut in slow, deliberate strokes.

Yurek had to look away, his stomach twisting. “I had faith that you’d hang on, skillful predator that you are.”

Baal morphed back to human form, something he could do enviably fast. He thankfully brought the visage of clothing with him. His scowl disappeared and his shoulders lifted. “Next time I’ll be prepared. For you and for her.”

“Her?”

He pointed to the slit in his leg. “The female did this. She took me off guard. I would have killed the hunter if not for her.”

Too bad the whole lot of them couldn’t have been killed in one tidy accident. Except for Pope. Bringing him back alive had a much bigger reward. He, too, was curious as to what Pope was hiding. Likely it was his daughter, perhaps even the man with her. The man who was only part human. Yurek hoped to return to Surfacia with Pope in custody and a report on the deaths of the two rebels.

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