Eternally Yours: A Vampire Paranormal Romance by Harper A. Brooks & Olivia Boothe

Author:Harper A. Brooks & Olivia Boothe [Brooks, Harper A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Nicholas

The pain was excruciating at first, but then numbness settled in. I couldn’t feel my leg anymore, and my arm was all but dead. I forced myself to stay focused on Loren, fear the only thing fighting the darkness from taking over. I tried to draw my weapon, but I was out of ammo, and in the struggle, I’d lost sight of the duffle. As I braced myself against the tunnel wall for support, I was hit in the face by a splatter of blood.

I panicked, thinking Loren had been injured, but as I wiped the blood from my eyes, my breath choked in my throat. Loren had transformed, her body bigger and wider, her back muscles flexing through her thin shirt. The fury with which she attacked the wolves made my bones rattle.

There were two more beasts, both massive, bigger than any I’d seen before. In the tunnel’s dismal light, their eyes glowed bright yellow, and they moved so fast, they were nothing more than a blur of fur and teeth.

But Loren was just as fast, grabbing one of them by the muzzle as it lunged for her. She wrenched its head so hard, the sickening crack of its neck breaking ricocheted all around us. The second one jumped on her back, teeth sinking into her shoulder, and she reared back, hands grabbing for it but unable to get a good grip.

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Maybe I wasn’t really seeing it at all. There was no doubt the venom of their saliva had reached my heart by now—I could’ve been hallucinating the entire thing.

The wolf tore its fangs away, ripping out muscle, making Loren scream. Her pain shot through our bond and I nearly keeled over, my vision clouding. I could barely make out Loren’s body backpedaling and slamming the wolf into the wall.

It released her.

The sharp scent of blood saturated the air, making my head swim. Continuing to fade in and out of consciousness, I heard the loud sound of flesh hitting the wall again, followed by silence. The next thing I knew, Loren was helping me up from the floor.

“Can you walk?” she asked, her voice guttural.

“I can try.”

Hauling my good arm over her neck and shoulders, she guided us away from the beasts. “We need to find that exit, Nic. Before they send more of them after us.”

Limping down the long passageway, we finally came upon a dead end. “Where to now?” she asked.

“Above us?” I panted, my chest hurting with every breath.

We both looked up, and sure enough, there was another wooden door. But without my strength, I didn’t know how I could pull myself out of the hole. “You’re going to have to leave me, Loren. Please. Just go.”

“What part of I’m not leaving you behind did you not understand? I didn’t just get a chunk of my back bitten off for nothing.” Pointing behind me, she said, “Look, there’s a ladder.”

Guiding my hands to one of the metal rungs, she shoved me upward.

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