Midnight Magick by Katerina Martinez

Author:Katerina Martinez [Martinez, Katerina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Katerina Martinez
Published: 2015-01-25T18:24:33+00:00

CHAPTER 22

Crack!

A fist connected with my face. I staggered and dropped my phone and my latte. My bag also crashed some feet away from me, contents scattering all over the sidewalk. Stars danced before my eyes. I pulled my hands up to block the next attack but the man pulled me by my hair and tossed me to the ground a few feet away.

I struggled to get up. My face burned. A pair of thick, black boots shuffled around in front of me. One of those boots buried itself in my stomach and I fell to my back, winded and wheezing. Through teary eyes I spied the can of pepper spray not far from me. I reached out to get it but the attacker pinned my hand down with his boot. I shrieked as my dainty wrist crunched against the rough floor.

The man lifted me from the ground by the neck. He wore a ski mask. He pinned me to the wall again and pressed a blade against my neck. Cold, sharp metal caressed the skin. I didn’t feel the pain of the knife as nibbled at my neck and made it bleed.

“Please,” I begged.

I found no empathy in my attacker’s furious eyes, and as blood began to spill from my neck hope trickled away with it.

Someone raced toward us from across the road with blinding speed. A throaty growl behind a large set of arms ripped the attacker from off my body. I dropped to my knees and propped myself up with my hands, breathless and aching. A battle took place which I couldn’t see. Crying, I scrambled toward the can of pepper spray but by the time I pulled it up in front of my face the fight had ended. The masked figure sped across the street and meld into the darkness.

“Are you okay?” asked the person who’d saved me. His silhouette, darkened by the streetlamp above, cleared when he stepped out of the light. I was gazing up into Aaron’s flushed face.

“Oh my god,” I blubbered. I leapt into his arms and unloaded a hail of tears and fear into his chest.

Aaron lifted me up. Every moment was pain. I wrapped myself around his neck and settled my head against his body, sobbing quietly as he picked up my things from off the floor even with me clinging on to him.

“I’m taking you to a hospital,” he said.

“No! No, no hospitals.”

“What? Why not?”

“Don’t argue,” I begged, “Please, my home is closer. Just take me there.”

Aaron wasn’t a fan of hospitals either. There’d be too many questions, too many papers to sign and not enough care being given to patients. I’d heard him rant about hospitals before. The whole scene made him sick, stifled him and frustrated him, so didn’t argue with me and took me home. Just my luck that I’d be the one to get mugged. At least he didn’t take anything.

Back at my place Aaron sat me down on the kitchen counter. He cleaned the

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