Taken for the Hunt: A Dark Romantic Suspense by Mae Doyle

Author:Mae Doyle [Doyle, Mae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-25T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Natalia

All night last night I laid awake in bed watching the stars and the moon through the single window in my room. The moon has been waxing for a few days now ,the light of it streaming in through my window and making the entire room bright.

With everything white in my room, it’s amazing how it all seems to glow. I have a very faint memory of going on a vacation with my parents when I was younger, when they were still alive.

We stayed at a shitty little roadside motel — the only kind of lodging that we could afford — and the curtain hadn’t gotten shut all the way when we all went to bed. My parents fucked before they passed out, hopefully thinking that I was asleep, but I just kept staring at the space between the curtains.

Light streamed through the space, falling right on my face as I lay in the hard little bed and I made up the most incredible dreams about it being the moon. I pretended that I was an explorer on my way to the stars, but when I finally crept from bed to get a better look at the moon, it wasn’t anything celestial at all.

There was a street lamp right outside our room, the light from its incandescent bulb shining straight into the room and keeping me up. I’d stood there at the window for a long damn time, tears streaming down my face, before closing the curtains and getting back into bed.

Last night, though, it had been the moon. It was gorgeous, almost full, so bright that I could almost make out the beach below. By the weekend I was sure that I’d be able to pick out different parts of the beach and I actually found myself looking forward to going back to bed.

First, though, I have to make it through the day.

Owen gets me and leads me down to breakfast. Before I walk into the cafeteria to get my food and sit back in the hall, though, he stops me, his hand on my arm. “Marco wanted me to tell you that you’d be touring the island today since you got sick on your tour yesterday,” he says.

“What?” Panic creeps through me. I’m supposed to train as much as possible so that I can try to make it off of this hell island, and now Marco has taken away not only one day from me, but two.

“He wants you to see the layout of the island,” Owen tells me, giving my arm a little squeeze. “You be careful out there, okay? Look for anything that you can find that might give you an advantage over him when it’s your turn to run.”

I look up into his face for a moment, surprised by what I see there.

It looks like compassion, but that can’t be right, can it? There’s no way that Owen would feel anything for me, because if he did, that would put him at risk.

Then again, if I do well, he does well.

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