Blood Hunt by Jessica Wayne

Author:Jessica Wayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: B.A.D. Publishing
Published: 2020-09-23T18:30:00+00:00

22

Rainey

She wasn’t alone.

I repeat that to myself, over and over again, as I walk down to my bike. My sister was not alone the night she died.

Jack is a fucking liar, and I’m going to make him pay dearly for withholding.

“Where are we going?” Elijah asks.

“To get more answers,” I snap.

“That’s descriptive.”

I halt and spin, jabbing my finger into his hard chest. “I’m teetering on the edge of murderous at the moment, so unless you want me to decapitate you and leave your body in the fucking woods, I’d strongly suggest not poking me.”

Elijah lifts both hands in mock surrender. “Understood. Just thought it would be nice to know where we’re going to be getting these answers.”

“Where’s your car?”

He points to a silver sedan parked near my bike.

“You drive.” I walk around to the passenger side, and after he presses a button on the key fob, I climb in.

“Where to?”

“Here.” I thrust my phone at him and watch him carefully as he reads the name of the contact we’re headed to meet. When he turns to me, anger clear in his sharp gaze, I decide I can trust him when it comes to finding out what happened to Delaney.

Anything else? I don’t trust him as far as I can throw him, which, as you can imagine, is not very far.

“J? This is the person who was texting you when you were unconscious.”

I glare at him. “His name is Jack.” Elijah stiffens, his mouth flattening into a tight line as he stares at me.

“Jack?” he asks, his voice tight.

“Yeah. Too much of a coincidence for you too?”

“Fuck yes, it is.” He tosses my phone back at me. “I know where that is.”

We’re pulling onto the highway before I manage to get my rage under control enough to have a conversation. “How often did you go out on hunts with Delaney?”

“About three times a week for nearly a year. Then I took off. But we talked at least once a week.”

“Why?”

“Why what?”

“Why were you two friends? How did you bond? You said it wasn’t sexual, so then what was it?” I really doubt my sister would have made friends with a vampire. Unless it was for a damned good reason.

He casts a curious glance my way. “Not every relationship has to have a sexual undertone.”

“I’m not saying it does. But if Delaney were into you, it would explain why she didn’t kill you on sight.”

Elijah chuckles. “She wasn’t nearly as tough as you are. She trusted easier.”

He’s not wrong. For as strong as Delaney was, she gave people the benefit of the doubt. Me? I assume everyone wants to kill me until I’m proven wrong. “And she died for it.”

“Possibly,” he agrees. “As I told you—I saved her. After that, I don’t know. We just bonded. She’d lost people. I’d lost people. A friendship was formed.”

“How long did she know Jack?”

“From what I gathered, a while before I came into the picture. They had a bit more complicated relationship.”

“They were sleeping together?”

Elijah shrugs.

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