Witchblood by Lissa Kasey

Author:Lissa Kasey [Kasey, Lissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Gay / Lesbian / LGBT
Goodreads: 44100736
Publisher: Self-Published
Published: 2019-03-07T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Old blood has a sort of rusty, spoiled smell. Like a package of beef set out too long. It’s a distinct odor. Even my dreams couldn’t filter out a reason for the scent. Instead I just woke, groggy, in pain, and smelling blood. Mine or someone else’s?

My head throbbed. Another concussion? Probably not a good thing since I’d still been healing from the other one. My stomach roiled with nausea from the pain and the smell. I was careful not to move my head too fast. Throwing up all over myself would have only made the churning in my gut worse.

A lone window bathed the room in pale moonlight. Same night or had I been out that long? It took a while for my eyes to completely adjust. One was swollen enough that I knew it had to be quite the shiner. With my one good eye I could make out a small room, with a twin-sized bed, and happy cartoon animals stuck to the walls. They’d left me in the bed, and from what little I could see from the window, I was on the second floor. No trees nearby, just the vast darkness covered with pinpricks of stars. Which meant they didn’t expect me to jump out the window to my death, and probably had guards on the door.

Was this Nicky’s room? Had Felix followed them home just to use them as hostages? The shadows mixed with the shades of darkness of the room, leaving it hard to tell if blood stained anything, or if it was just me I was smelling. Though old blood had a different smell than fresh. Maybe I’d been bleeding and out for a while.

I sucked in a deep breath and tried to center myself through the monster weight of anxiety rising in my chest. Panic got me nowhere. Liam would be looking for me. I wasn’t alone anymore. Dylan made it clear that the pack wanted me here. Even if not all of them agreed, whatever bond Liam and I had made them all sit up and listen. Or at least be open to accepting a fox in the wolf den.

Felix’s words came back to me. Apa had known how troubled Felix was long before our relationship began. Yet he still allowed it. Once again I felt betrayed. The only man I’d ever had as a father figure and he’d let his son abuse me. For what? To keep a crazy wolf alive? Simply because Felix was one of Apa’s blood sons? He had others. Had even put others down in the past. Why had Felix been so different?

I closed my eyes and ground my teeth, trying to yank myself out of the self-pity. Now was not the time. Freedom first. Safety first. Hadn’t I spent the last year in a non-stop battle for just that? Maybe it was time to stop running. Was I ready to face the monster? My stomach roiled again with the thought. Memories of that final beating and rape rose in my head.

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