Choose the Bear by Lauren Smith

Author:Lauren Smith [Smith, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lauren Smith Books
Published: 2024-09-25T00:00:00+00:00

7

No, no, no, no...

Hadlee couldn’t even scream, she just turned and ran back to the house… Into his house. The house of a murderous monster.

He was already back in his human form and surged up the steps after her. Abandoning the lock on the door, she fled deeper into the house. She couldn’t let him catch her. She clutched the blanket like a shield and fled deeper into the house. There had to be a back door or garage door … something. She pulled on the knob of the door at the far end of the hall, revealing the garage. The Bronco sat there and the keys lay on the dashboard.

Thank God!

She sprinted around to the driver’s side, twinging her ankle as she leapt into the seat. The throw blanket she’d been carrying dropped to her lap, leaving her entirely naked. But she couldn’t focus on that. She had to get out of there, now. The garage door was up so she hit the engine on button and threw the vehicle into reverse before she floored the gas. The car shot out of the garage at record speed, tires squealing, and seconds later she hit the dirt road at the end of the finished concrete driveway.

Hadlee pulled away from the house just as a completely naked Indiana came running back down the front steps, chasing her. She heard him shout her name, but she breathed a sigh of relief. There was no way he could catch up with the Bronco. She gunned the gas and vehicle shot down the road. She glanced in the rearview mirror hastily, seeing him illuminated in the flood lights at the front of the house, and then…

Oh god… He changed right there in the front yard. Suddenly Indiana wasn’t a man anymore. He was a large brown bear. One she recognized with a primordial fear that was too ancient to ignore. He was the bear who had killed Chad.

It loped after her, his muzzle bared to show dangerous, white teeth.

Hadlee sucked in a sharp breath, her lungs burning as memories assailed her. Chad’s screams, the sounds of flesh tearing, bones crunching as he been killed, ricocheted off the insides of her skull. She gasped for breath and her body seized with a rising panic attack. She swiped frantically at her eyes as fearful tears blurred her vision, making it hard to see in the dark. When she checked the rearview mirror again, the bear was gone. She’d lost it in the woods.

She blew out a breath of relief and tightened her grip on the steering wheel. The car bounced and jerked over the bumpy road. Hadlee had no idea where she was going and had to slow down a little to see where to drive since all she had were headlights to show her the road.

As the Bronco turned around the bend of a thickly knotted copse of trees, a massive brown shape lunged out of the darkness into the road ahead of her. She screeched in terror and yanked the wheel sideways and slammed the brakes.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.