Crave 02 - Sacrifice by Laura J. Burns & Melinda Metz

Author:Laura J. Burns & Melinda Metz
Language: eng
Format: epub

Shay took a deep breath, and for the first time all day, her shoulders relaxed. Suddenly, her head felt clear. Well, more clear than it had, anyway.

The sun went down.

She knew it as certainly as if she were outside watching the sunset over the horizon. It was gone from the sky, and the pressure of it was gone from her body.

Shay didn’t move from her spot in the dark cave. She hadn’t moved since she fell down here, at first because it hurt too much, and then because the feeling of her cracked skull healing itself had freaked her out too much. She hadn’t been aware of the sun—even when she was up there near the cave entrance, it had been overcast and gray. But apparently, her vampire senses had been tracking the sun all day.

Fighting with the sun all day, she corrected herself. I wasn’t even supposed to be awake during daytime. No wonder I felt like I was losing my mind.

She sat up slowly, waiting for her head to spin the way it had earlier. But it didn’t. Everything in the cave looked as sharp and clear as before, and she could still hear water dripping from a mile away. But her brain didn’t seem stuffed with cotton anymore.

Maybe if you become a vampire during the day, it messes up the system, she thought. Well, why should this be any different? Her body had never done what it was supposed to when she was human either.

“Okay. Let’s try this again,” she said aloud, hoping the sound of her own voice would stave off the loneliness she felt. By herself, at the bottom of a cave somewhere in the mountains in Tennessee, far from her mother or her friends . . . or Gabriel. If she thought about it, the terror of her situation might crush her. So instead, she focused on the one thing she felt more than anything else.

Hunger.

She was ravenous.

Her body had fully recovered from that fall onto solid rock, and she felt incredibly strong. She peered up at the ledge she’d tumbled off of. In her visions Gabriel had jumped distances like that. Shay bent her knees and gave it a try, springing upward with almost no effort. This time she landed on the cliff. The cave entrance smelled different—less plant and more animal. Or maybe that was her hunger?

It was dark outside, and she didn’t hesitate. She ran right through the cave, ducking down to fit under the three-foot-high overhang of rock. The rain had stopped, but the ground was still wet.

Shay stood still and looked around, enjoying the cold air on her skin. She was on a mountainside, but at a low elevation. There were trees everywhere and thick underbrush. She couldn’t see a path or a road or even an electric light. I am really in the middle of nowhere, she thought.

Something moved in the bushes, and Shay’s head snapped toward it. Her hunger was growing by the second. It wasn’t like anything she’d ever felt before.

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