Blood Bearon by Riley Storm

Author:Riley Storm [Storm, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: High House Press
Published: 2019-03-13T00:00:00+00:00

23

Plymouth Falls had never felt so big before.

It felt like an hour ago that they had passed out from the edge of the downtown core, and yet still, residential units and small commercial blocks flashed by. With no lack of space around, the town had definitely decided to spread out instead of up.

A rumble of thunder from behind tore her eyes from the road. She watched in the mirror as Khove wrestled with what appeared, to her eyes, to be a minotaur. It made no sense, and her brain categorically rejected the notion, and yet there he was, locked in a death grip with the half-bull, half-man beast that towered over even him by at least a foot or more.

“Are you really going to let that itsy bitsy thing get the better of you?” she called, entirely unsure if taunting him was the best move or not. “Hold on!”

“To what!” Khove yelped as she careened to the side of the road, pasting numerous creatures between the side of the truck and the concrete wall as they passed under the rail bridge that went through town.

They were everywhere. The dark murk that surrounded the truck barely let her see more than twenty feet in any direction except forward, but Rachel knew they were horrifically outnumbered.

Metal screeched as one of the creatures dug into the side paneling of the truck and ripped it free. The metal and the inhuman shape holding onto it tumbled away, its support no longer attached to anything, but more shapes filled the void.

“Khove, they’re going to tear this thing apart before we’re anywhere near safety!” she shouted through the smashed rear windshield.

“Keep driving!” he roared, delivering a powerful kick to the minotaur’s chest that sent it flying back into the darkness. There was no time to relax, however, because two more ugly beasts hopped up to take its place, rocking the truck with their added weight.

“I am!” she called back. “But sooner rather than later, this is going to become a pedal-powered car if you know what I’m saying!”

“What? Yes! Push the pedal all the way down!”

Rachel rolled her eyes. He couldn’t hear a word she was saying.

“This is fine,” she whispered. “This is fine, everything is fine. No reason to worry.”

Something slobbering and savage slammed into the driver’s door, cracking the glass. Rachel screamed. It shattered, and teeth came for her.

“Not today,” she growled, left hand jabbing upward with the knife Khove had given her.

The creature—it wasn’t anything she’d ever seen or heard of—howled, the hideous sound filling the cabin and leaving her ears ringing. Rachel didn’t give up, giving the knife a twist before yanking it back just in time.

The beast sagged down onto the window frame, bending the metal as life fled it. A moment later, other hands and hooves and things reached in and yanked it—and the door—from the truck.

Completely exposed now, Rachel had no choice but to reduce speed, forced into splitting her attention between driving and fending off the mass of nightmares that surged closer with every mile per hour the vehicle slowed.

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