Return by Malone Skye

Author:Malone, Skye
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: kindle
ISBN: 1940617138
Publisher: Wildflower Isle
Published: 2014-10-06T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Zeke

The clock on the wall was the loudest thing in the room.

On the chairs beside the front door, Chloe’s friend Baylie sat next to her stepbrother, Noah, while on the sole other chair in the room, his mother read a magazine. Behind a window to the next room, Gladys, the middle-aged woman who’d offered us all sodas and candy from her office, now studied something on her computer screen. Meanwhile, I leaned against the wall nearby, too edgy to sit down even if there had been a seat to take and struggling to keep myself from pacing.

Chloe hadn’t had the chance to tell the others that the older policeman and his nephew were landwalkers. Or that, if they found out what she was, they might try to hurt her.

Like almost everyone else.

It was infuriating. My ‘get Chloe to safety’ plan wasn’t exactly going according to plan. In fact, it’d gone merrily to hell at every turn. From bringing her to Nyciena to getting her home now, there always seemed to be somebody waiting for their chance at her.

I was beginning to think taking her to the Arctic Circle was the only solution. At least it’d get her away from everyone who wanted her dead.

Among other things.

My gaze flicked to Noah. I pulled it away again. He didn’t matter. Not where anything besides Chloe’s safety was concerned.

Though in my book, there was a good chance that meant safety from him.

I shifted position on the wall. He’d helped us escape from Earl. I appreciated that. But his kind had been created to kill us, and most of them seemed pretty damn obsessed with it. Even if he claimed not to be like them, I wasn’t sure I cared. It still didn’t exactly make him the type of person you wanted to keep around.

And I was really tired of Chloe having people who might decide they wanted her dead around.

A click came from the handle of the hallway door. I shrugged away from the wall while Noah and Baylie both straightened.

Chloe came out.

She looked pale. Shaken. With a tight smile to Gladys, she let the door shut behind her.

But as she started across the room, she suddenly paused. Her gaze twitched from me to Noah, an uncomfortable look flickering over her face.

“Hey there,” Noah’s mom said encouragingly as she set her magazine aside. She rose and motioned for Chloe to take her seat.

Chloe crossed the small space quickly and sank into the chair. “Thanks,” she murmured.

“What happened?” Baylie asked nervously.

Chloe glanced to Noah’s mother and the woman behind the window. “It… it was fine.”

Her voice sounded like it’d been anything but.

I studied her as she sat there, not quite looking at any of us while obviously uneasy thoughts made her brow twitch down. I wanted to press for more, to find out if he knew about her, if she thought he was dangerous, or more specifically if we should be getting the hell out of here right now, but there wasn’t a way.

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