Hot Blooded by Bridget Essex

Author:Bridget Essex
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2019-09-01T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13: Light

Once we were down a couple of feet, Jet urged me ahead of her, tugging me gently until I was a little lower than she was on the steps.

“Wait a second, okay? I'll be right back.” She ascended again, did something that I couldn't quite see, and then I heard the eerie grating of stone against stone.

The little light we had disappeared, and we were plunged into absolute darkness.

“Jesus...sorry. Just...give me a second...” Jet muttered. There was some rummaging around, and then I felt her presence beside me, the heat of her body radiating in the sudden chill of the underground. It was more comforting than I could have imagined here, in the dark, to feel her beside me...

A light flared to life.

It wasn't as bright as the one a few minutes ago, down in the graveyard with the sphinxes...but it felt like it belonged in the same family, if that makes any sense. It had the same color tone of too-bright-white.

Speaking of the graveyard...were we still in it?

Where the hell were we?

I didn't know, but I blinked as Jet held aloft something that looked like a sphere of light.

She gazed at me wearily, and then she sighed.

“Look, what just happened back there...” She looked like she was going to say something else, then abruptly fell silent, running her fingers back through her hair in frustration. She held the sphere up a little higher, and I blinked at it again.

Wait.

That was...not a flashlight.

It was a literal sphere of light.

An actual sphere.

Of light.

I stared at it, slack-jawed.

And then I managed: “Jet...what's going on?”

“You're safe,” is how Jet chose to answer. But her mouth, normally set in its cocky smile, was downturned into a thin, grim line.

She frowned at me and glanced overhead at the stone slab.

“We'd better get going. I don't know if that will actually hold them. I think it will. But I'm not certain.”

“Get going?” I looked down the steps into the pitch black, then back up at Jet in disbelief. “Go where?”

Jet sighed again, and she shook her head. “I asked you if you trusted me,” she murmured as she stepped closer, searching my face. “We're not out of the woods yet. You're still in danger. They could still get in here. They could still get to you. And if they do...” she trailed off, left it unsaid.

But I understood.

“I'm asking you,” she murmured, her words low, potent, strong: “please trust me.”

I heard the sound again, above us, the muffled, but still patently unnerving cry of a thousand wailing children, screaming out in the night.

I had a choice. I could go back up there, to those demons. I could try to fight, try to survive. Fail. But it was still a choice.

Or I could stay here.

With Jet.

I took her hand, the one that wasn't holding a glowing orb of light. I took it and I squeezed it.

“I trust you,” I said.

And I meant it.

Jet nodded, once, but relief was evident in her face as we began down the smooth stone steps.

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