Grimm's End by Walker Shiloh

Author:Walker, Shiloh [Walker, Shiloh]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Angels, demons
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-10-26T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

There was pain and there was darkness and I didn’t think either would ever end.

Both of them did, though, except when I opened my eyes, I was still lost in the black. There were voices and they were screaming. Their panic called to the fighter I’d become and I went to leap up.

I couldn’t.

Strong arms held me pinned to the ground.

Son of a bitch—

But the words wouldn’t come…and neither did my strength.

A hand clamped over my mouth while another, hard and calloused, wrenched my wrists overhead and held them down.

“Be still. Please. Do not leave the tent. I wish to harm no woman, no child…”

“What…”

I couldn’t force the words out though. I sucked in a breath and realized, that at least, I could do. I could breathe. A storm of scents hit me, all of them foreign. I didn’t know what was going on. Nothing made…

Wait.

The man pinning me down. His cheek rasped against mine as he whispered in my ear again. “Do not be afraid. I will not harm you.”

You…

I would have hit him, if I could. I tensed my muscles again, ready to tear away and then knock him over, beat him bloody. He would let me too. He’d done it before. I knew him. He was different, different in ways I couldn’t describe, but I knew him. He’d called to me from the very beginning.

But I couldn’t break free. My strength just wasn’t there.

Then it hit me. I wasn’t me. This body wasn’t mine and as soon as I understood that, the terror washed over me and it froze her, this woman whose body held me prisoner.

The voice that came out of her mouth wasn’t mine, and neither was the language, but I understood it.

“What do you want?”

Something sharp pricked my neck. “Scream, woman. Scream loud and I will not be forced to hurt you.”

She screamed…while I fought inside her.

Darkness sucked away again and when I found myself able to see, I was lying on the ground. Men gathered around me and I braced myself.

What in the hell is going on…?

I had no idea where I was.

I had no idea when I was. Slowly, though, I was figuring out just what was going on. I was somehow trapped inside Will’s head…or his memories. And judging by the rough clothes these guys wore and the weapons they held, he just might be older than I thought.

Pain shuddered through him and I felt every bit of it.

But he was smiling.

The bastard was smiling. Will, who hardly ever smiled, had smiled while he lay bleeding and broken on the rocky, broken terrain.

“What have we done?” All around him, men whispered and their fear ate me like vultures feasting on carrion. Blood spilled out of the body I was forced to share, but he smiled.

One of the men bent and grabbed his hand, jerking his arm up into the air. Even as Will—or whoever he was—screamed, relief wracked him. The action forced more blood out of him as the man turned to those behind him.

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