The Alpha Legacy Boxed Set (Books 1-7) by Holly Hook

Author:Holly Hook [Hook, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Holly Hook
Published: 2019-04-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Remo keeps the cloth of toxic chemicals held to Matthew's face. Matthew rouses several times, coughs, thrashes, and loses consciousness again. Remo has to sit on Matthew, being the biggest of us all, and keep his own face out of the fumes. His neck muscles strain.

“How does that work?” I ask him. “What did you do? Can we even get him out of the school with no one seeing?” My senses will have to come in handy. I hear no one approaching the basement door. But we can't stay down here forever. A janitor will find this.

My phone buzzes with a text. I know it's from Cayden. He's worried. And the longer I take to answer, the worse it will get.

“I mixed a couple cleaners you should never mix,” Remo says. We'll make it work," Remo says. “Everly. Did the Russells get back to you?”

“They'll meet us at the cabin,” she says. “They have Leonora's silver dagger. We can use that against Matt once we get him there.” She glares at me from the side of her vision.

I stare at Matthew. His breaths still gurgle. He could die if we keep this up, but we have to protect ourselves, even if it involves killing him.

But he didn't ask to turn.

Why am I feeling sorry for him?

I shake my head. Matt deserves to lie there in pain with his lungs burning. Remo continues to explain chemical formulas as Everly paces and taps at her phone.

“I'll go get the SUV,” she says.

“It's best if you do it,” Remo tells her. “Matthew won't be going anywhere like this. Tell the Russells to bring wolfsbane.”

“I will,” The bell rings to begin afternoon classes and she marches up the stairs. I listen as her footsteps creep down the now-empty hall, merging with the flow of students.

Remo and I face each other. He keeps the cloth to Matthew's face. The stench isn't has bad from up here, but it mixes with the rotting wood. “Never mix bleach and ammonia unless you like chlorine fumes.”

“That's what you did?”

“Matt asked us to do it.”

“Does it turn into acid in your lungs?”

“When it hits water, yeah. Hydrochloric acid.”

“He won't live like that forever.” Fear grips my heart and I think of Cayden. We connected again a few minutes ago. The danger brought us together even though we're hundreds of miles apart. He sensed this in a way.

My phone buzzes again.

“That's him,” Remo says. “Or Leonora.” The longing fills his voice.

We're in the same boat. We miss our people.

“I can put this on speakerphone and call,” I offer. It's more than what Everly would do. “He won't stay on long.” This is risky.

“Yes, please.” Remo shifts and presses the cloth harder to Matthew's face. Fluid shifts in his lungs. It's revolting and I hope Remo's hearing isn't enough to pick that up, but his grimace tells me otherwise.

I call Cayden's number. He answers on the first ring as if he were waiting for me.

“Brie! What's going on?”

“We've got Matthew,” I say.

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