Heroes Among Us: A Paranormal Romance Collection by Ditter Kellen

Author:Ditter Kellen [Kellen, Ditter]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: DK Media, LLC
Published: 2019-02-19T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Kash groaned with the pain throbbing inside his skull. He carefully lifted his eyelids, surprised to find himself naked and on the cot in the basement.

“What the hell?” Memory came flooding back with a vengeance. Charlie.

A smear of blood on his hand caught his attention. He lifted it closer to his face, noticing a cut along the tip of his finger.

Throwing his legs over the side of the cot, Kash snatched up his clothes and dressed as quickly as he could with the pounding headache. Charlie had somehow drugged him.

A small knife lay on the floor next to the cot. The knife she’d obviously used to get the blood she needed for Celia.

Kash pulled on his boots and stormed from the basement, angrier than he’d ever been in his life. He had allowed his emotions to get in the way of his common sense and, in the process, let Charlie escape…with his blood.

The knob turned on the front door, catching Kash off guard. “Charlie?”

Mauve appeared in the now open doorway, a strange look on her weathered face. “The girl is gone.”

Kash felt his teeth begin to extend. “I realize that.”

“Let her go.” Mauve blocked the doorway when he would have stepped around her. “She will not make it back alive.”

His stomach turned over at Mauve’s words, but he ignored it. “She took some of my blood.”

“It matters not, my son. For it is not your blood that Celia will take.”

Kash stilled, taking in the implications of Mauve’s statement. “You mean, Charlie’s? What the hell would she want with her blood? She’s only human.”

“But the child forming in her womb is not.”

The room tilted beneath Kash’s feet. “How can you know that?”

A deep sadness appeared in Mauve’s eyes. “I saw it, Kash. Celia no longer needs either of our blood. She has the girl, and the child she carries belongs to you.”

Memories of the night he’d spent in Charlie’s bed at the Bickford house rushed through Kash’s mind. They had created a child together; a child that was even now on its way to the den of Celia Battiste.

Kash could feel his beast rising to the surface even as he lifted Mauve off her feet and set her aside. “I’m going after her.”

Mauve’s boney fingers wrapped around his forearm with a strength that surprised him. “If you step foot on Celia’s property, you won’t make it out of there alive.”

“I don’t care,” Kash snarled, yanking free of Mauve’s hold. “I can’t let that Charlie die at Celia’s hands. She’s pregnant with my child.”

The older woman’s eyes grew misty. “I’m so sorry, my son. But I’m afraid it’s too late for them.”

Pain shot through Kash’s chest, and breathing grew more difficult. “What did you see?”

“The same vision as I saw before. Only this time, the girl lay in the circle, her lifeblood spilling from her body.”

Kash took off in a run. He shifted so fast, his feet burst through his boots and his shirt ripped down the sides. The scene Mauve had laid out before him haunted his every step as he flew through the woods at a high rate of speed.

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