Chapter Fifty
DRAVEN
“Black eye?” He shrugs. “No black eye. It most have been a trick of the light. De maybe a kada
Enih glares. I know what a black eve looks like, thank you very much.”
Quinn gives her his sexiest I am a werewolf grin. “I don’t know what to tell you the
Because as you can see, there’s not a ti
a tingle muck on my pretty little
1 roll my eyes bravenward. Oh lord. “How are the leones?: Lash Quin, who is still maki
chons to taste.
Emily like she’s a new flavor of Joe cream that he just
” He says, tiening his attention to me
The leaves
He chuckles. “Oh, yeah. Right. They re all good.”
“Olav, Emis says with a laugh. “What are you guys really talking about? Because I know you weren’t really out there checking the leaves.”
ly, and is not a lie.
wel bless her silly little heart. So glad she’s not stupid. “Trespassers,” I say easily, and
Emys her smile. “Oh, I see, You were checking my story. Makes sense.”
She trembles, her feelings obviously a bit hurt. “Just so you know, I’m not much of a liar, | mean- | like stories just as much as the next girl, but I don’t know are
I shake my head. “Oh, Emily no! ”
she tempts. “I guess it is hard to believe that I am here in the dark
“Som here in the dark?” Qui empts and I nod at him, shushing him with a look.
She yells. “I promise you, I’m telling the truth. The will to live gave me perhuman strength that night and by the grace of God I made it.”
“Emily!” 1 half snap. Her eyes go wide and she bites her bottom lip. “I believe you, I spear I do. Quinn was just making sure that the person you said abandoned you wasn’t still out there. We were just trying to keep you safe.” I meet Quinn’s eyes. Arending to Emily someone she met a guy named Les” Quinn’s eyes light with fire.“–dumped her in the ocean that night and that is where he left her. In the voter alone. With nothing but sharks to talk to.”
“Leo?” Quinn says quietly and I nod. “On a boat?”
“A houseboat,” I clarify. “I think you should probably text Roda and let him know. Do now”
“Well why didn’t you–t
[trind“” I shout, glaring at him. “You can guess how far I got with it.”
He laugh. “Oh right. Ha ha, that a funny”
“It’s really not though. I’m going to have to do something about Mister Mayor’s vetin powers when he gets back here.
“Mister Mayor Emily gizzles.
–
1/3
19:52 Wed, Nov 13
Chapter Fifty
DOMONIC
“A girl in the worch,” I say, after Soda’s ja told me that he found a girl on our Packing island.
A human hiding out on an island that the had no way of getting to unless she were
or a poddanım mermaid
She said she abandoned these. She’s hamless, Koda says. “Even a little chunsy
*Chimay how
The in the woods a month
She camed it
thought you said there was no one there when you put it oral. “
Koda shrugs. His phone pings with a best message and Ewatch his features suspiciously.
Draven isn’t stapid. When I denied her Koda’s number–Tim sure she somehow charmed it out of Quinn, which in turn will eam him another black eye
Bodes unreadable and for some reason I cant being myself to ask if the message was in fact from Draven, or if it was from somebody else, I’ll find out when I’m alone. I have complete access to all of Draven smesages through an app on my phone, & wet I’ve kept completely to myself along with her phone number and the intricatingly sweet taste of her skin. If the bow been texting Koda br Quinn–or Rainier or even Bart it will make what I’m planning to do to get her to leave- just a tiny bit easier to pull off
Who are you kidding? I might make you want to keep her even more.
Burl can’t. And I won t
toda a eyes go dark as he reads his test. These parthens. They’re from Miami, right?
1 mod, now truly curious about the message be received.
What if one of them traveled by boat?”
–
My body tenses. That could be very possible. That would make a lot of sense. We welldn’t be able to track his scent as easily along the water. And the Doctor did say that Lab was supposed to meet them here. The way he said it implied that he honestly had no idea where Leo might be. Almost as if his arrival could be deterred in some way. A storm perhaps. Or choppy waters. Any of those things might make traveling by boot take longer. The Doc said Lee wanted Draven for himself and
with his father about it. So Lea may have had no intention of meeting up them at all. Which also means, he may have no intention of resting theme My fists clench and I meet Roda’s eyes shu. To get here om Mand–by boat Leo would have had to leave Florida around the same time Draven arrived here on the train. Which meand
status and the Doc were tracking her sent the ente time,” Koda states.
“Tack,” I has with sudden clarity. “And Degen probably had no idea that Marcus coa flow his scent on her, so she really thought she’d gotten away” I groad, “These fucken let her think she escaped. When she never actually did. My throat clo
That also means that of Draven had Extened to me that day and left this place on the train the way I told her to- might have lost her forever. She might have been taken by them and raped again or worse–killed. And it would all have been my fault. The realistion is crippling in its intensity and the slow che in my chest just got a thousand times more painful
“Ire heading to the docks,” Koda says, jumping kito his SUV before I can even give him the okay.
As he screeches out of the parking lot, the look on his face is completely fecal. He les as if he is having a hard time containing his anger. Almost like he wants Lea for hilf. Like Len wronged somehow.
Nak. Na way Stop thinking that crazy shit. She’s mine, They all know she mine.
Could Kodalye feeling that protective of ay gift Or is it something else?
I shake myself of my paranoid thoughts and stop back into the Sheriff Station will Koda later about why he thinks he suddenly some sort of that caller. Right now the important thing Finding Les by any means necessary
2/3
19:52 Wed, Nov 13 O
Chapter Fifty
61%
AxI enter the elevator that leads to the underground holding cells, I smile to myself because I realize Leo has no idea that Draven is no longer carrying his father’s
Nope. She’s carrying mine. The way that she should be.
Raimer is just finishing cleaning up the blood when I enter and say, ‘Change of plan Wake that fucker Marcut up. I need to have a word”
Chapter Comments
11
POST COMMENT NOW
