Heaven is a Harem - Book 1 by Kim Faulks

Author:Kim Faulks [Faulks, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-25T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Remi

So close, a voice whispered. And yet so far away…

I swam through those depths once more, spearing my hands through the water. But there was no fear now, no panicked thrashing, no desperate need to drive myself to the surface of my mind to escape the past.

There was just her and me.

I slowed the long, driving strokes and hovered in the depths. “What do you want from me?”

Silence answered, cold, uncomfortable silence…until she finally answered. Simple. I want everything. I want you to remember, Remi…I want you to remember!

My lids fluttered open, faint lights melted into the dark.

Voices pushed in, deep voices…familiar voices.

White crowded my view, white feathers…white wings…

Angels.

Fear gripped me, but instead of rising to the surface, I was pulled back down, into the darkness and the cold. Faint lights sparkled above me this time. Stars. Thousands and thousands of stars. I wasn’t in the nothing, but somewhere else. A street stretched out in front of me, shadows hugged parked cars and tried to gnaw away the faint yellow hue splashed under the towering streetlights.

I knew this place.

Thought I knew it.

I glanced right, along another street, and then left along another. Behind me, was one more. Cars passed in the distance, but I stood here in the middle of an intersection…alone…

The smack of boots on the pavement cracked through the air, speeding my pulse. I skimmed parked cars until I caught the moment.

She was just a blur in the dark, running…jerking her gaze over her shoulder to look behind.

She was running from someone.

Her long dark coat flapped wildly. But it was the echo of her boots nailing me to the spot as she tore past a towering brick building. Dark windows along the front gave little to go on. I glanced at the sign, barely, barely making out the words…Patterson’s cannery.

“Hey!” I lifted a hand into the air and stepped forward.

But she never heard me, only raced toward the end of the building and out onto the street. Shadows blurred behind her, moving faster than she could ever run.

She cried out, and glanced once more behind her before she hurled herself between two parked cars. The darkness was bearing down on her, rising up like nothing I’d ever seen before.

Panic was a fist around my heart. Still, I couldn’t move. I was rooted to the spot, tied down by reality while this…whatever this was played out.

She punched her boots into the asphalt, sprinting across the street until the darkness found her.

Her screams blended with my own as the savage sound ripped free. The shadow was a beast grasping her, and lifting her. Her feet thrashed in the air, hands clawed at the hold.

Red, burning eyes glinted from the formless dark. The woman screamed and fought, dragging a foot into the air only to drive it backwards and into the shadow.

The thing howled and screamed, dropping the woman. She hit the asphalt hard, falling to her knees before she pushed upwards, stumbled, and tried to run. She was a fighter.

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