Blood Binds by Donna Augustine

Author:Donna Augustine [Augustine, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-17T05:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

“This is a mess. What are we going to do with all these bodies?” Burn sounded like a novice to killing, like he hadn’t been hanging with the Cursed King for probably a solid decade and had at least a bucket of blood on his hands.

“Can you manage to get past your shock and awe and help me search them? Let’s see if we can find something that tells us who they are.” I was already on my third corpse, checking pockets and avoiding fleshy bits, while Burn tiptoed around the place like he was afraid to stain his boots.

“Burn.” I called his name as a teacher would to an errant student. And people said spying was bad? If I hadn’t spent all those hours peeking through the school room window in the Valley, I never would’ve mastered the tone that got Burn moving.

He bent down by the nearest body, using two fingers to lift a jacket away from a shirt. “Then what? Do we leave them out here?”

“I don’t know. I haven’t thought that far.” I glanced over from my fourth body while he worked on his first and looked like he’d be there a while.

A small smile lit his face. “Maybe we should torch them?”

I ignored the part of that suggestion that made my stomach flip-flop and focused on the man who’d turned into a large kid acting as if he’d discovered a new toy.

“The torch was very cool, but I’m not sure a bonfire of bodies would be better than leaving them as is. Their friends who got away will be back. We’re already late, and I don’t want to draw more attention to us than the big demon in the field might’ve.”

I was on my sixth body and still hadn’t found anything. It wasn’t like people usually walked around with identifying objects, but there wasn’t even a coin to hint at an origin. It was as if they were told to empty their pockets before they attacked. How had they planned this when we’d only decided to come last night? Had they been lying in wait for days hoping? Figuring we’d eventually come this way in search of clues? My gut had screamed that this was a bad idea from the start, and now it was chanting, I told you so.

“You’re worried about being late?” Burn asked, still by the same body.

“Yes, I am. They’ll never get to the right place without me.”

I stood, trying to figure out which bodies I hadn’t checked yet, when I felt Ryker nearing. He broke through the line of trees looking ready for war and scouring the area for an enemy to kill. His eyes scanned me and then took in the carnage around us.

He stopped beside the first dead body he came to and then looked at us. “What the fuck happened?”

“We got ambushed,” I said, stating the obvious.

Burn took the opportunity to stop searching. “Thought we were fucked for sure when this demon-looking thing dropped down out of nowhere and killed most of them.

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