Forbidden Mortal: Book One (The Bone Gatherers 1) by Randi Rayl

Author:Randi Rayl [Rayl, Randi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RH Publishing
Published: 2021-04-28T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

It had been a week since Josh had revealed himself to Sofia. Seven days since he’d tried to kill her. And since then, Sofia had been willingly held captive by the Bone Gatherers as they figured out their next move. By their request, Sofia had turned off her phone’s GPS locator. They assured her again and again that no māpach would be foolish enough to follow her to their lair, but they were taking no chances. Still, Sofia tossed and turned in the big king-sized bed Xel had made up for her every night.

She would lie awake, staring at the vacant space beside her. And while Sofia was comfortable in solitude, there had always been someone there she could call. But now that Josh was gone, Marlow was dead, and contacting her father could place him in danger, Sofia realized the depths of what being alone really meant. Xel’s words beat loudly in her ears.

Waking before the sunrise, Sofia made coffee and scrambled some eggs. She stared at her plate until they turned from steaming and palatable to congealed and cold.

“You gonna eat that?” Tupack asked, walking into the kitchen.

“Eventually,” Sofia mumbled.

Tupack opened the fridge, grabbing a protein shake. She looked up at his massive frame. “Is that how you all got so big?” Sofia said with an edge.

Tupack looked down at the drink and back up at Sofia with a smirk.

“You know the average Aztec was only five foot six,” Sofia added, drawing a frowny face with her ketchup on her plate.

She was being bitchy. And this man deserved it the least out of all of them, but she was past caring.

Pulling out a chair, Tupack sat down. When he braced his arms on the table, the wood groaned under his weight. “I’d love to take credit for my aesthetic,” he began, “but being the main defense against a god-created demon infestation requires a bit of a physical upgrade when you get the job.”

Sofia looked up at him. The biology lectures from her past whirled through her mind. “So, you weren’t always this big?”

Tupack threw his head back and laughed. “Oh, I’ve always been a large man. But this big? No. Perk of the job.”

Sofia looked him up and down and then remembered her melancholy and went back to stabbing her eggs.

“Hey,” Tupack said, squeezing her shoulder. “I was thinking that we should empty out your old apartment. Close that chapter and then find you a new, nicer place when we have cleaned up this situation.”

He meant when the mess she had made was cleaned up. Many a dinner conversation had been over what to do with the poor little demon-banging mortal. They had all settled on keeping her locked in their house until they could find Josh.

Sofia wanted to give him a smart answer. But after a week of being ignored by the Bone Gatherers or overly stimulated by Xel’s banter, the chance to leave the mansion for an afternoon seemed like a vacation. Sofia nearly came out of her skin to accept.

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