Shadow Sentinels: Beginnings (A ParanormalUrban Fantasy Wolf Shifter Romance) by Karen Tomlinson

Author:Karen Tomlinson [Tomlinson, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Connor

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Water dripped. One. Two. Three…Pause...One. Two. Three…Pause. It was the same goddamn rhythm all day, every day. I peered at my expensive watch. At least the bloody thing still worked. My phone had been taken and smashed right after my arrest for Miss X’s murder.

I marked off another day. It was one minute past midnight. That made it ninety two days since I’d been shoved in this stinking shit hole. Owen was down here, too. We talked every day, mostly about nothing but it helped keep us both sane. I had no idea what Doherty was up to, but it was clear we weren’t getting any kind of trial, fair or otherwise.

We’d been bundled into the cells at the SBI and kept there for less than a day. In the middle of the night we’d been darted and left to fall into unconsciousness. When I woke up, I’d been incarcerated in this underground cell. I had no idea where we were. It wasn’t somewhere I’d ever been before. The place was old, really old, almost like an old fort’s underground prison. The floors were stone blocks, as were the walls, while the front of the cells were constructed of iron bars. It was freezing and stank of old piss, shit and mold.

My cold fingers explored the collar around my neck. The fucking thing was impregnated with silver, enough to leave superficial burns and keep my wolf from breaking free, but not enough to do any permanent damage.

“Owen?” My dry throat made it difficult to talk. Guards came once a day to push a bucket of water in through the barred door of each cell and throw us enough food to keep us alive. It depended on the guard as to how much water was in each bucket. Yesterday's bucket had only contained an inch of filthy water in the bottom. It wasn’t fit to drink, and I was dehydrated, so dry, my tongue stuck to the roof of my mouth. I groaned as my stomach growled, and my wolf snarled, wanting to be free to hunt for food. The weaker I got, the weaker he became, too.

The water dripping in the background was torture to my fluid starved body.

“Yo, Brady!” I rasped.

Owen sighed. “What, man?”

“That’s ninety two days we’ve been in this shit hole. Any ideas how to get out yet?”

“Nah, man. Like I said a hundred times before, this bit of our prison is shitty, but that door at the top of those steps would need a bomb to blow it open. And then we’d need weapons to take out whoever’s up there. Why? You got some weapons shoved up that a-hole of yours that you just now decided to tell me about? In fact, how about you tell me how I ended up in this shit hole courtesy of you, you selfish shit! Seeing as you haven’t given me any explanation yet...let alone the goddamn truth!” His voice rose to a bellow.

“Yeah, I got three

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