Highland Shapeshifter (a Highland Sorcery novel) by Autrey Clover

Author:Autrey, Clover [Autrey, Clover]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Red Rover Books
Published: 2012-10-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Lenore slammed on the brakes, jerking the wheel, and the corvette skidded to a stop sideways across two lanes.

What were those things? No wonder Gabe called them Morlocks, holy crap. Gabe had pegged them right. Absolutely right. They were like monsters that could have stepped right out of a movie. She’d never seen anything like them. Lenore fumbled with the door and bailed out of the car, wasp and hornet spray in hand.

The beasts surrounded her, well, more to the point, Col. They were definitely after Col.

They were like troglodytes come to life, all long muscled arms, and leathery flappy skin that looked like it would slide off with the least bit of coaxing. Most alarming were the rows of small daggered teeth, like baby rats. Gray. Everything about them was different hues of gray.

Col was on his back, having been dragged to the road. Beneath those gray teeth. She aimed the spray. No, he was up, kicking one of the trogs in its slurpy stomach and rolling into another’s legs and up again to his feet.

Lenore’s jaw dropped at the sheer beauty of his movements as though he had an innate sense of where the creatures would be and he hit them with lethal precision.

He flung one of the beasts away and Lenore showered it with a flume of wasp spray. The thing dropped to the ground, shrieking, gouging at it eyes. Kills wasps, hornets, bees and your everyday household smelly monster. Or at least got their attention.

Stunned, the other beasts jerked their heads toward her. Low growls emitted from rubbery throats. She hadn’t been a target before, but she’d just made herself one.

“Run!” Col shouted, elbowing a beastie in the jaw while another latched around his waist and took a bite.

Right. Because she was the type of girl to tuck tail and run. She sprayed two more Morlocks that came at her. It seemed to take effect, kind of, somehow penetrating those weird eye scars or maybe just throwing their other senses out of whack. Who knew? But if it worked, it worked. Blinded for sure now, or at least desensitized, Thing One and Thing Two spun and ran into each other, claws out and doing damage. Okay now, she liked that. Lenore dodged them as they swerved past, and she ran to Col. She gave a quick spurt of spray in a wide arc, afraid to get too close and disable him. He was down and bleeding beneath a handful of the monsters.

She kicked at one, sending it face-planting in the street at the same time a swollen hand clamped around her ankle and ripped her off her feet.

The back of her head bounced on the pavement and she saw stars. Funny, she always thought that was something they made up.

Stars. Blue stars, zipping like meteors above her head.

The monsters howled. The closest one stiffened, bones rattling, making a sort of sloshing sound and caved to its knees. More blue stars flew by with the same effect.

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