Maleficium (Devil's Playground Book 2) by Natalie Bennett

Author:Natalie Bennett [Bennett, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BB Books
Published: 2021-06-03T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

I never got to ask the man who helped us for his name. If not for Dion shoving me out of the way, I would’ve caught part of the arrow that was now protruding through this stranger’s face.

The impact sent his body careening backward. His head bounced off the metal door, body sinking down as he confusedly grasped the piece of thin steel implanted just above his right brow. His expression was like all the others. Of everyone I’d seen die since this all started, their expressions always conveyed shock and confusion.

They didn’t understand why they were dying, being brutally executed like animals.

I caught a glimpse of the leviathan mask from the Inn and that was enough to get me moving. With not even a second to wipe the dead man’s blood from the side of my face, I was running again. Lungs burning like I’d downed a bottle of kerosene and no idea where I was going, I ran.

Grace, Morrigan, and I went one way while Mel, Dion, and the brown-haired man went the other. It wasn’t planned, it’s just how things happened. If it were possible to close my eyes and still see in front of me that’s exactly what I would’ve done as I heard the tell-tale sound of a familiar ice-cream truck and motorbike.

This fucking city was truly hell on earth, a nightmare that wouldn’t let up until we were all rotting away as corpse.

“What is going on?” Grace breathed heavily, running beside me.

I couldn’t answer her. If I tried to speak, I was positive my lungs would burst into flames. We emerged from behind the Sanitorium just as Mel and Dion vanished from view, running from the man who rode the motorbike and a few masked people on foot.

We couldn’t follow them.

That would be suicide.

I wasn’t sure where to go, but if the motorbike was going for them that likely meant the twisted metal truck was coming for us. We continued running, moving away from the building. Once out on one of the main roads again, we came to an intersection.

“Which…way?” I wheezed, placing my hands on my knees.

God, I felt like a beached whale. Grace was faring much better than I was.

I blamed that on her not having to run from place to place since waking up in the middle of the woods.

And Morrigan?

She didn’t look in too rough of shape either. But she was probably an athlete like her boyfriend. I was just a girl who enjoyed margaritas on Sundays while binging SVU marathons. To think I once thought that my life was boring. I would die happily doing that forever over this madness.

As I expected, I could hear the ice-cream truck getting closer. I knew a few lurkers had to be closing in on us as well, the ones moving on foot.

“We should go that way,” Morrigan suggested breathily.

Using my hands, I made a sweeping motion to indicate she needed to start moving. She broke into a jog, making her away across the street to the sidewalk.

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