Malice and Madness (The Hunter Vampire Chronicles Book 2) by Juliet Boyd

Author:Juliet Boyd [Boyd, Juliet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Bones was at the point of losing all hope. Not a state he enjoyed. It wasn’t for the want of trying, but there were only so many times you could roam a space looking for answers when there were none that made any sense. Food had arrived twice, he assumed at normal human mealtimes. It was difficult to tell. Blood bags for him had been included, although the taste was a little sour, as if the donor had a penchant for lemons. Just as the others had said, it had appeared somewhere random. Always somewhere they weren’t. And silent. That was the thing that disturbed him most. The place echoed with every movement. There was nothing to dampen the sound. No carpets. No curtains — well, no windows. And yet, he hadn’t heard a thing. Not even a clink of a plate being placed on a surface.

At first, he’d been wary, thinking poison, or drugs, but hunger overtook him. Plus, he had no desire to find out what kind of blood his new companions had running through their veins. That wouldn’t be good for public relations, and if they weren’t human .…

Nothing to pass the time, but talk to the others. Nothing to talk about to them, because they had no idea what he was talking about, and always brought the subject back to madness and food. Thinking was the final resort. Picking. Dissecting. Conspiricising.

He had to get out of there. There had to be a way.

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The cat thing wouldn’t let go of her. Flynn tried to put it down, but it clung onto her clothes with its claws, raking holes in the fabric. It didn’t like being down in the sewers any more than she did — she’d tried not breathing, but the smell seemed to permeate your skin and gross you out from the inside — and yet, the cat had asked to be brought down. Possibly. Cat language wasn’t her speciality.

She turned to Ellie. “Do you think it wants us to take it somewhere specific down here?”

“It’s difficult to tell anything when it’s invisible. Can’t even see the body language.”

A shimmer of light brought the feline into focus one piece at a time. First its head — that was bizarre beyond laughter — followed by its limbs, and finally its torso and tail. Its fur glowed slightly, giving it a ghostly appearance. It looked up into Flynn’s face. It wasn’t as ugly as she’d first thought. It looked scared. It seemed to be silently asking her for something.

Or not so silently.

A voice pushed itself into her mind without taking no for an answer. Damn it. Her vampire side really was distorting her abilities. She tried to relax and allow the words to coalesce.

“Straight ahead,” it said, in thready syllables.

She lifted her head, looked toward the end of the tunnel. She sighed. What else could they do? “This way.”

“But—”

“It’s … brain-speaking.”

“You mean telepathy?”

“Same thing.”

“No it’s not. It could be compelling you.”

It could. Double damn. “Can that really happen?”

“You did it to Rag.

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