Hounds of God: A Werewolf Urban Fantasy Novel (Cursed Night Book 1) by Justin Sloan

Author:Justin Sloan [Sloan, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Elder Tree Press
Published: 2016-12-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12: Training

Danny had trained, even if he’d had to put on a show and pretended that he cared the whole time doing it. This wasn’t his place anymore. This was a delusional group of murderers, using the name of justice or worse, a god, to do their will and impose their beliefs (or in some cases, powers) on others.

The camps extended north, and Danny found himself assigned to one near the border of Canada, where an especially large group of them had been recently transformed.

“They’ll kneel to you, sir,” one of them who’d been assigned as his guide said. The woman had told him her name, but he didn’t want to become attached to anyone here, in case worse came to worse. So he just thought of her as Red, because of the red lipstick she wore that set off her lips in an almost sensual way—not that Danny was tempted at all, her being a blood-thirsty killer. “Sir?”

“I’d prefer they don’t,” he said. “Kneel, that is.”

She stared at him a moment, confusion causing her brow to furrow. “But sir….”

“‘Let’s just keep it at Danny, okay?”

“Yes, sir. I mean… Danny.” She cocked her head in a way that made him feel uncomfortable, and realized she was trying to decide if he was in any way hitting on her.

“That’ll be all,” he said, wanting to get rid of her as quick as possible.

Her lips pouted and then she shrugged, opening the door of the old warehouse before them.

A chorus of cheers rose out from the men and women, all partially transformed as he entered. And then, as Red had predicted, the noise came to a halt and, as one, they all dropped to one knee and bowed their heads.

“Get up,” he said. “Keep training so I can observe. Pretend I’m not even here.”

A confused murmur arose from the crowd, but then two jumped up, one of them shouting, “You heard the man. Back to work!”

They were back at it, but something was off. They weren’t quite the same, and in fact kept glancing his way.

“What is it?” he asked Red.

She looked at him sheepishly. It was an odd expression on her—it didn’t fit. “They’ll expect you to train alongside them, to demonstrate, at the very least.”

“Demonstrate what?”

She smiled like he was joking, then looked around nervously when she saw he wasn’t. “Your powers… of course.”

Right, the new ability Aldrick had shown off. The ability to change at any time of night, even without the full moon.

But he didn’t have that power yet, and somehow these recruits expected he would.

“Not now,” he said. “I want to hold off until I feel they’ve earned it.”

He was glad to see Red bought that. After observing the training for a few more minutes, he retired to the once abandoned apartment building nearby, where he’d been set up with a room, computer and all. He hadn’t been around one of these for a while – what use did you have for computers when you were

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