Fear University Series: Books 1-3 + Novella by Collett Meg

Author:Collett, Meg [Collett, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Meg Collett
Published: 2018-02-05T05:00:00+00:00

T H I R T E E N

Ollie

Under Sunny’s squinty-eyed glare, we made our creeping, crawling way back to the base with only the snowmobiles’ sharp headlights cutting a path through the tundra’s frozen expanse. Along the way various hunters swerved off in a spray of fresh snow to resume their careful, lethal combing of the Barrow hillside for ’swangs before the snowstorm moved in. When we finally arrived back at the base and sealed ourselves inside its protective walls, only Luke, Hatter, Thad, Eve, and Haze stood gathered around Sunny and me.

My head wound had reopened during the journey because no matter how slow Luke went, I still got jostled over the hard-packed snow. We all stood in the entry while Sunny reapplied pressure with her other glove and growled like a pissed-off kitten.

“I told you,” I said for the millionth time, “just let him go.”

“And I told you, that’s not an option. He’s too close. We eliminate the threat.” Luke snapped the words at me as his fingers tapped madly against each other, causing the tendons along his forearms to flex like a strobe light. A thread had pulled tight in him, it seemed, and it was seconds from snapping.

“Max is mine to kill.” I tried to push Sunny away, but she swatted at my hands with a hiss.

“Fine. You can go all Lizzy Borden on his ass. After we find him and bring him back here. I’m not letting him roam about in town where he could ask any hunter where Ollie Andrews is staying.”

“No one would tell him,” I argued. Luke refused to see reason on this. Max was mine. After today, after feeling the fear that coursed through me, I wanted to feel his blood splatter on my face more than ever, but if Luke brought him back tonight, I wouldn’t be able to be in the same room with him. I just needed some time to gather myself, to tuck those bad memories back away. After I stopped trembling every time I thought of his hands on me, I would be perfectly okay. I would be fine. Totally, perfectly fine.

If I told myself those words enough times, maybe I would start believing them.

“This isn’t up for discussion,” Luke said. He’d barely acknowledged me since we returned; his eyes kept skipping over me in time to the tap-tapping of his fingers. “We get him now.”

He turned away from me and gathered the hunters to discuss tracking and capturing Max; they spoke quickly and divided up areas to search with a nerve-rattling efficiency. Since Killian was still recovering from yesterday’s attack, Luke was in charge, and no one was complaining as he delegated equally and fairly.

Over Luke’s shoulder, Thad met my eyes. His gaze told me I wouldn’t have enough time to kill Max myself. We were leaving. And soon. Depending on how quickly the snowstorm developed.

Thad possessed the ability to crumble every relationship I’d built with these people. Relationships I treasured. But he also represented

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