BloodMarked (The Fraktioneers Book 1) by Lu J Whitley

Author:Lu J Whitley [Whitley, Lu J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-28T06:00:00+00:00

★Chapter 10

She was gone.

Jami slammed his fist against the rough hewn logs that made up the interior wall of the cabin. He’d missed her by minutes. The smell of those fucking Takers was still hanging in the air, mingling with the delicate scent of Greta’s skin and the sharp taint of her fear.

Just. A. Few. Minutes. “Aaarrggh,” he grunted, the effort sending a bolt of searing pain through his body. Freshly healed skin cracked and separated, spilling trickling streams of blood down his scabbed chest.

He sat, huddled in the darkest corner of the cabin. Splintered wood stuck up at him from odd angles. Fluffy clouds of freed cushion stuffing puffed across the hardwood floor. Mattress springs and shards of broken glass littered the ground all around him. He had, to say the least, not taken it well. The pain. The ache was like nothing he’d ever felt before. The excruciating agony of being burnt alive was dwarfed by the crushing fist of fear and guilt that circled his heart. Knowing he’d lost her. Knowing he might never get her back. It ate away at him.

The beast purred to life inside his mind, and he let out a pained groan. The thing had been blessedly silent while he’d hunkered down in the destroyed cabin, willing himself to heal and waiting out the light.

Can help, it whispered, shocking Jami to attention. He’d never heard the thing utter more than “Want” or “Kill.” If it didn’t want to fuck it or fight it, it tended to have little opinion on the subject. And it had never. Never. Offered him help.

“How,” he gritted, knowing it was ludicrous to speak out loud to the voice in his head, but what did he care? He had nothing left to lose.

Let me run, it crooned, Free me. Over his dead body.

“No.”

He was in no mood to negotiate the beast’s release, until it said the magic words, Know where. Can find her. Again, he was dumbfounded. How long had that ability been rolling around inside his head? He chuffed a half-hearted laugh. All these centuries and the thing still had tricks up its sleeve.

“How can you find her?” He’d had some limited ability to track Greta since he’d given her his blood eighteen years ago… and on the night she’d lost her mother, but he’d left that topic off the table for obvious reasons. Even then, he’d only been able to get a general impression of where she was until he was within a few hundred yards of her. But now the beast was implying that it could pinpoint her exact location from anywhere in the world. His lips quirked at the corners with the first ray of hope he’d had in hours.

Hard, the beast cooed, So hard.

“Do it. Prove you can find her.” Jami knew he was getting played, and he honestly couldn’t believe he was considering the proposal. But he didn’t see how he had any choice.

Must feed. Not strong enough. Can find. Must feed.

“Prove it first.

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