Melissa F. Olson - 05 Boundary Haunted by Melissa F. Olson

Author:Melissa F. Olson [Olson, Melissa F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-02T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 23

I was at a forty-five-degree angle, but the explosion seemed to hit me right in the center of my chest, forcing me to stumble backward. It was a large room, and there was nothing to grab, so I ended up tipping backward onto my ass. I automatically put my hands down to cushion the fall, and for a moment pain exploded into my brain, because of course I’d used my left hand without thinking.

The sudden chaos and pain reminded me so much of an IED attack that my panic spiked in a way that had nothing to do with whatever had just happened. For a second my vision began to darken at the edges and I started to hyperventilate.

Then I noticed that I could hear myself breathing.

I’d been near explosions before, and they were so loud that it left a temporary deafness, but my ears weren’t even ringing. In fact, I realized, there’d been no sound from the explosion at all, other than grunts from the men and some glass breaking.

What the hell had just happened?

Then the museum’s alarm went off, a sharp, tinny trill, and the sound brought me back to the here and now.

I didn’t seem to be any more hurt than I had been before, so I looked around, trying to take stock. When the . . . whatever it was . . . went off, I had been standing closer to the railing than Tobias, and Warton had been standing directly in front of Beau. I looked for Tobias first, but he wasn’t right behind me anymore. I found him a good four feet away, getting to his hands and knees in the wreckage of an antique wooden trunk that had been lying on the ground. I didn’t see any blood, but his fingers were curling like claws, and he was panting in short breaths. Uh-oh.

“Tobias?” I said cautiously, not moving closer. I was still getting used to having werewolf friends, but I recognized when I needed to stay the hell back. “Um, it’s okay if you need to go—”

Without a word, Tobias bolted out of the room, bent over clutching his stomach like he was holding his guts in. I turned to the empty space where Beau and Warton had been standing. “Beau?” I yelled.

“Back here!” Even over the trilling alarm, I could hear the ragged fear in his voice. “Lex, I need you!”

I turned toward the sound, and spotted the vampires’ legs on the ground. They’d been thrown more than ten feet through the air, hitting a glass display and rolling off the other side of it. Feeling off-balance, I forced myself to my feet and stumbled toward them. As I rounded the display, I saw Beau lying on the floor, trying to squirm out from underneath Warton. The bodyguard’s eyes were closed, and he wasn’t moving.

“Please, he needs blood,” Beau begged.

I dropped to my knees, mindful of the broken glass from the display. It was seriously thick glass, so the force must have been incredible.

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