Wicked as a Pixie (Daughters of Neverland Book 3) by Kendra Moreno

Author:Kendra Moreno [Moreno, Kendra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-17T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

ATLAS

I stare at the pixie, desperately trying to talk to her, but I know it’s useless. I try to get her attention, try to distract her, but she can’t even hear me. Whatever happened, it’s happening too fast, morphing her before our eyes. Her claws lengthen to brutal points on her fingers. Her teeth sharpen in her mouth until she looks more like a shark. And her eyes, her eyes change from the vibrant pink to blood red.

Bloodlust.

“Atlas! Step away from her!” Wendy hisses, trying to drag me backwards, but I ignore her. I’ve stopped it before, I can stop it now. Except, I can’t. I know I can’t. This time, it’s slamming into her too quickly and too fast to be stopped.

“Pixie,” I growl, wrapping my fingers around her bicep, but she shoves me hard away from her, slamming me against a tree. I’m on my feet a second later, just as close as before, trying to get through. “Look at me!”

But my words don’t register.

“Attie!” Cal rushes forward and Tink’s gaze jerks to her suddenly, but I step in front of Cal, blocking her body, forcing the pixie to look at me.

Whatever runs through Tink’s veins slams into mine, singing to the power I carry in my own. Something in me answers, my teeth sharpening in my own mouth, but not as drastic as Tink’s. Before I can do anything, before I can convince her to look at me again, I see fear briefly pass over the pixie’s face and she rips away from me, her wings flaring wide. Then she forces herself to turn away from us, from the ones she doesn’t want to hurt, and sprints into the trees.

“Did you see that?” Tiger asks, her eyes wide. “She turned away from us. There’s still some humanity in her right now.”

But I don’t stick around to listen. Without waiting for the others, I lurch into a sprint, chasing after the pixie in bloodlust, following the trail she isn’t trying to hide.

“Atlas!” someone calls. It sounds like Cheshire, but I don’t stop. I have to catch her. If she ends up making it to the Coven and she can’t stop herself, I can’t even imagine what she would feel in the aftermath of that. In bloodlust, would she recognize the pirates and Tribe members in her walls are friendly or would she see them as something to get rid of?

The first corpse of some creature comes into view, something I don’t recognize, but I don’t stop. It’s too late for it, the eyes glassy in death, its neck shredded by claws. At least it’s not a person, I tell myself. Still, pity for the beast fills me. It was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I run harder. Behind me, I can hear the others following, but they’re too slow. Cal and I had tested my speed before. I’m faster than her. I’m faster than Cheshire. But the real test came when I raced White.

I’m faster than the fastest creature in Wonderland when I’m desperate enough.

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