Vampire Assassin League Bundle Five - Loneliness by Jackie Ivie

Author:Jackie Ivie [Ivie, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Jackie Ivie LLC
Published: 2014-07-18T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWO

What the hell was going on?

A moment ago, she’d been standing in place. One knee slightly bent. Back straight. A hand resting nonchalantly on her hip. Poised. Assured. Perfectly arrayed. Feeling the brush of her hair on the small of her back. The already-distasteful touch of Goldstein’s fingers on her other arm. And something really...weird. A tingle of something had raced along her spine. She’d been watching too, as something had flashed in the dark corner. And then...

Shit.

She didn’t recall. Her head hurt too much. Her eyes burned so she kept them squeezed shut. Her hearing was all messed up. The only thing she could make out was the slightest hum of high-pitched sound. Someone had yelled, something resembling a wall had hit her, and now an octopus had her; one with tentacles made of iron. Evie opened her mouth to scream and sucked in salt water. What had happened to the air? Her heart slammed against her ribs with painful beats that matched the humming noise.

Oh. This was a nightmare. An instant immersion in psychosis. Everything was wrong. And she was not going down without a fight. Her toes hit something. Her fist something else. But it was her knee thrust that got her released. Sand scrubbed her knees and elbows before she pushed up, gasping for air. And the moment she reached it, she got knocked back down by a wave.

A wave?

She was in the Atlantic Ocean?

Her arm got snagged by another tentacle. She got hauled upward, reaching her shoeless feet and getting held in place despite each wave that tried to knock her back down. Her eyes were running with tears that wouldn’t stop, and what had been a perfection of sun-kissed blond waves down her back was now a hair-spray-filled mass that resembled tangled seaweed and it was plastered just about everywhere.

Oh. If this octopus-thing was trying to kill her, it shouldn’t give her air. Evie would’ve been screaming but she had to choke seawater out first, and then she was bent forward and gagging with it. Great. Just great.

And why couldn’t she hear anything?

She was shaking, too. Not a small shake, either. The tremor that gripped her was debilitating. Frightening. This nightmare had been too instantaneous, too real, and it seemed to be never-ending. The tentacles turned into arms. And they lifted her. Held her against what felt like a man’s chest, in something resembling a hug. And if she started crying, she was really going to be ticked.

It just felt so...right. So secure. So safe.

His chest rumbled as if he said something. Evie shook her head, rubbing her hair-covered forehead along his shoulder. The contact scrubbed at her skin. Wow. Her hair had taken a beating. No. Maybe it was part of her hair extensions. She’d paid for real hair, but the beautician might have given her synthetic. That might explain why it felt like the surface texture of a bristle pad.

She needed to figure this out. She couldn’t just be locked in a stranger’s arms, while he stood in the ocean.

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