Darkness Unknown (Beshadowed, #1) by Fenech S.A

Author:Fenech, S.A.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy, monster hunter books, werewolf vampire ghost, shifter mate romance, paranormal romance, dark urban fantasy romance, lovecraftian horror urban fantasy, bbw romance
Publisher: Fairies and Fantasy Pty Ltd
Published: 2020-10-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

“Callan?” Everly squeaked.

Harper grabbed Everly’s hand, her acrylic nails digging in. “Is he a werewolf? I thought you said it was vampires!”

“I don’t know!”

“Is he going to eat us?”

“I don’t know!”

He looked like he wanted to eat them. Saliva glistened over his sharp teeth. They should do what he’d told them to do. Run. But Everly was more confused than ever. Was Callan really a monster? Nothing she’d seen in the last ten minutes felt real. It was all too much for her to take in at once and her body refused to act while her mind was in turmoil.

Werewolf-Callan lifted his head to the ceiling and howled, flexing massive, furry muscles at the same time.

Everly ran. She pulled Harper with her, their hands still locked together. Her heart raced and stuttered, feral, trying to punch its way free of her chest. Her body flushed and chilled, her thoughts swam. Every symptom of a panic attack flooded over her at once, threatening to incapacitate her.

This is too much.

Everly clutched at her chest and wooziness made her stumble, bringing both her and Harper smacking down onto the floor. Coughing out dust, Everly twisted around and looked back.

Callan was right behind them.

And something else was right behind him.

Something so big it was twice the height of werewolf-Callan. It had a vague wolfishness about it too, but in a way that was more feeling than from any visual cues.

It was black all over. A black so dark and deep and slimy, it was hard to make out the forms and shapes, like looking into a living oil slick. There were at least six legs but they were wrong and slithery, the joints bending in disturbing ways, boneless and deadly silent. There were no feet, each limb tapering to impossibly thin points that it balanced on. It prowled toward them, its movements confusing and sickening, with no face or eyes to ground it as anything familiar.

But it did have a mouth. It opened, slowly, slobbering, a strange green glow emanating from within as it kept opening wider and wider—so large it seemed half of the creature’s body had split apart.

Everly stared, jaw slack, head aching from the sheer insanity of what was in front of her.

Callan let out another roar, but it sounded more frustrated, almost scared. He turned away from the fallen girls to face the nightmare.

“Come on.” Harper climbed back to her feet, pulling at Everly.

Everly forced herself up, despite the hitched, panting breaths that didn’t draw in enough oxygen and the tremors in her legs.

Callan leaped onto the creature’s back, tearing into it with his claws. As soon as he made contact with the black, slimy being, there was a hiss and sizzle of burning fur. Callan wrenched one of his tree-trunk arms back and a slick coating of darkness covered his hand, burning patches in his fur like acid.

A spatter of ooze landed on Everly’s hand, stinging and fizzing. She gasped and wiped it away. Harper cried out too and huddled behind the closest seat.

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