Stalked: Vampire and Witch Romance & Urban Fantasy Series (Blood of the Chosen Book 1) by D.L. Blade

Author:D.L. Blade [Blade, D.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fifth Element Publishing
Published: 2022-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

Shannon: An animal attacked Riley last night. Meet me at his place.

My pulse jarred in my throat.

Me: An animal? What animal?

Shannon: His dad isn’t sure, but his leg got pretty cut up.

Me: On my way.

Not Riley. Please, God, help him be okay.

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WHEN I ARRIVED, Shannon was waiting in the driveway for me.

“I texted you,” I said, inching toward her. “I’m so sorry for what I said yesterday about Cami. I didn’t mean it.”

She caught me off guard and wrapped me in a warm hug.

“I know you didn’t mean what you said. You’re just upset. We all are.”

I gave her a tight squeeze before I released her. “Let’s go inside,” I said.

As we entered the kitchen, we met with Mr. Davis, who told us what had happened.

“Yesterday morning,” he started, “when Riley was heading back from your house, he stopped by Goddard Park to take our boat out. A girl going for a run found him lying in the parking lot with a huge bite mark on his leg. There was so much blood that she rushed him to the hospital and called 911 on the way. They released him a few hours later with over thirty stitches and antibiotics. I thought he was alright until this morning when Riley complained about feeling sick.”

I looked up at Mr. Davis. “Sick?” I asked.

Riley’s father frowned as if recounting his son’s story had disturbed him. “I thought maybe it was a dog bite at first, but that’s not what he told me. He was sure it was a wolf, given its size.” He ran his hand down his face. “There ain’t no wolves in these parts, Mercy.”

I shook my head. “I may have seen one,” I said, remembering the animal that dashed in front of my car right before my crash. It was massive, much bigger than any creature I’d seen in East Greenwich. It could have been a wolf.

He gestured with his finger out the window. “Naw, not around here,” he said, “when was the last time you saw a wolf in East Greenwich?”

I didn’t answer because I was still trying to make sense of it myself.

“Can we go see Riley now?” We needed to see him and ask him ourselves.

“Yeah, go on up.” We heard Riley calling out to us; his voice sounded weak. Riley was curled up on his bed in the fetal position when we walked in, holding his stomach.

“He’s been like this since this morning,” his dad explained.

“What’s wrong with him?” Shannon asked. “Didn’t they test to make sure the animal that attacked him didn’t have rabies? Could it be that?”

“They tested him. We’ll have his lab work back in a few days. I don’t think he’d have symptoms this fast, though. I thought perhaps an infection was starting, though his wound today doesn’t look nearly as bad as it did after the attack. He’s been throwing up, and his temperature spiked to 104 an hour ago, so I called the hospital again. The doctor doesn’t think it’s related to the attack, more like symptoms of the flu.

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