Once Bitten (Alexa O'Brien Huntress Series Book 1) by Trina M. Lee

Author:Trina M. Lee [Lee, Trina M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Mountain Books
Published: 2011-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

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Arys was nowhere to be seen, but I felt him as strongly as if I were standing right next to him. A strange sensation told me that he sensed me, too. I cast my gaze around frantically for him. Something didn’t feel right, like someone was out of place.

I felt Shaz’s eyes on me, and I turned to give him a wink and a smile. I couldn’t read anything in his expression, which gave me pause. I would have approached him if the pressing line of patrons hadn’t stood in my way. He didn’t look exceptionally distraught or beckon me over, so it couldn’t be that bad.

When I didn’t immediately spot Arys downstairs, I began to ascend the wide staircase. A rush of coolness stirred the hot bar air behind me. I turned to face him, suddenly on the offensive.

“You son of a bitch!” I cursed Arys from where I stood on the third step looking down at him.

His midnight eyes widened as he took in my blood-scented jeans and damp hair, now drying in dread-like chunks of blonde and gold.

“You killed a human.” It was a comment, not a question. The Goth rock music boomed all around us. His words reached only me. “What have you been up to, Alexa?”

“Why don’t you tell me? You’re the one skilled in cold blooded murder.” I glared at him. I tried so hard to blame him, even as I tasted the blood that lingered on the back of my tongue. He fixed me with a hard stare and, though my temper faltered, I refused to back down.

“What in the hell are you on?” Arys grabbed my forearm and jerked me down the stairs. He pulled me against him and forced me to crane my neck. He looked into my eyes. “I never forced you into anything, and you know it. Did I blame you when I slaughtered Mrs. Olson’s dog?”

I raised an eyebrow at him and made a face that indicated how stupid I thought his statement was. After a moment, he relented.

Arys admitted, “Ok, I did blame you. But now, I blame us. But seriously, we have more important issues at hand.”

“What the hell can be more important than the fact that I just tore a man apart? Literally! He’s probably been found by now.”

“When you say you tore him apart, you mean…”

“I said literally, didn’t I? I mean just what I said. I left the fucker in pieces, ok?” His eyes sparkled with gruesome curiosity, which disgusted me enough that I had to fight back another wave of nausea.

“As much as I’d love to hear all of the sweet and, I’m certain, juicy details, I’m afraid we have bigger problems.”

“Like what?” I didn’t really want to hear what he had to say. In fact, I had made a mistake by coming to Lucy’s at all.

“Like the hit job on me that you’ve been thinking about taking.” He said it so matter of fact.

Dumbfounded doesn’t even begin to describe my instant reaction.

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