Invidious by Bianca Scardoni

Author:Bianca Scardoni [Scardoni, Bianca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Publisher: Bianca Scardoni
Published: 2016-06-03T23:00:00+00:00

23. RUNNING SCARED

The blood skies stretched into the horizon like an omen of death; of carnage. I stood alone in a small clearing in the woods, my mind racing almost as fast as my heart was. There was something I was supposed to do, something I had to remember, but I couldn’t work out the equation in my head no matter how hard I tried to piece it together.

A menacing shadow mingled with mine as Dominic took his place beside me. He always seemed to have a starring role in my nightmares and this one was no exception. He stood facing the horizon with his arm touching mine, wearing only a pair of black pants and an impish smirk on his mouth. His blond curls looked as though they’d been dusted in pink powder, reflections from the strange red sky that poured down on us like a bloody warning.

“Come now, angel. It’s almost time,” he said and then walked out of the clearing and into the darkened forest, melting with the shadows and trees as skeletal branches reached out to wrap him in their ominous embrace.

I followed after him without any question, first running to catch up with him, and then watching hungrily as he weaved his way in and out of the brushwood, leading me deeper and deeper into the woods. I followed ravenously, hungrily, craving him and everything he may have been offering.

The red sky darkened as we moved deeper into the forest, almost as though it were frowning down on our trespasses. I reached out to stop him from walking, from venturing deeper into the forbidden lands, but he mistook my gesture and spun on me. With fire in his eyes, his hands reached out for my hips, my body, holding, clutching, digging into my skin as he pulled me into the space between his arms. Icy cold kisses peppered my neck as a rush of excitement barreled through my blood. I instantly knew what was coming.

I tipped my head back, surrendering all my restraint and hope, and then, just like I knew it would, the sharp, scorching pain quickly came for me. Harrowing and infinite like death itself, it consumed my being from the deepest part of my soul right down to the flesh he was tearing into.

“Your blood is the wine.”

A murder of crows cut across the red sky as blood spit out from my neck like a fiery volcano that knew no bounds, and I instantly knew...

Death was knocking.

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