Dead in the Water (Gemini: A Black Dog Series Book 1) by Hailey Edwards

Author:Hailey Edwards [Edwards, Hailey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Published: 2016-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

I woke with the earthy taste of mold in the back of my throat and a stiff lower back. I pushed myself upright off the poured concrete slab floor that radiated with cold and stank of mildew. Cinder-block walls supported the unfinished ceiling over my head. Pipes and wires hung exposed and within easy reach. I briefly wondered how the umbras might like the taste of electricity before deciding I was as likely to fry my brain as theirs and dismissed the idea as more dangerous than my current circumstances. At least for now.

Rolling onto my feet and shaking out my tingling limbs, I made a quick visual sweep of the room. No window. One door missing its knob. A fist-sized hole had been punched through the plaster beside it so that a chain could be looped through the circular cutout and locked on the opposite side. No handy tools had been left out so I could pick the lock, or lever against the chain to snap it. No food or water or blankets. Scrape together everything in what appeared to be a basement cell, and I had a whole lot of nothing.

Disjointed memories of my abduction sank back into my skull in bits and pieces.

The grieving widow. The shadow creatures. Those damn igel.

And Graeson.

He couldn’t be dead. He was a warg, practically bulletproof unless the rounds were silver.

I picked crusted saliva off my chin and out of the corners of my mouth while listening for signs of life. Worst-case scenario, I had been crammed into a storm shelter or detached cellar of some kind. Best-case scenario, I was holed up in the basement of the Rebec family home. Letitia had said Let’s go home after all. Neither option gave me the warm fuzzies.

As my eyes adjusted, I distinguished a set of figures drawn on the wall in sweeping pink and blue lines. Sidewalk chalk. A booming noise startled me, and I crept to the door and peered through the hole. Cases of soda were stacked against the wall near what might have been a set of stairs. Beside those a washing machine hopped as it struggled with its load. It jumped hard to the right, and a basket filled with equal part toys and laundry spilled onto the floor. Rebec house it is.

If I was here, then where was Harlow? And if this was the Rebec home, then was here in Wink, Texas?

Air whistled through the crack where my eye had been, and I recoiled as the room filled with familiar dense smog. I didn’t waste time swatting at it this time. I let it coalesce undisturbed, and as I watched, two silver gashes that must have been eyes blinked open. The umbra appraised me through the churning blackness with suspicion, confirming my fears that it was far more sentient than I first thought.

“Where’s the mermaid?” I demanded.

Spears of white light flashed in a skeleton grin.

Is Graeson alive? That was the question I meant to ask next, but the words stuck in my throat.

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