Semua Bab BLOOD MOON REDEMPTION: Bab 11 - Bab 20

POV: Calista RiversThe maintenance ladder was greasy with industrial grease and decades of subterranean condensation. My ribs constantly throbbing with every vertical step; that was such a reminder of the shadow-thrall’s impact. I clamped my teeth down on my lower lip while using the physical pain to wall off the residual tremor in my hands. The silver light was now gone and tucked back into its dark box in my lower abdomen, but the skin of my palms was still sensitized by the sudden discharge of raw lunar energy.Kael cleared the top of the ladder first. He didn't make any grunt of exertion. He simply vanished through the square opening into the dark above then reached down a massive hand to haul me up the final two rungs.We emerged into a narrow utility closet. The air in here was simply dry and smelt of ozone, metallic tang of stale blood. Kael cracked the door an inch, his silver eye pressed to the gap."Boiler room," he whispered. "It’s empty but the main floor is directly

POV: Calista RiversMy father was dying in my arms and no amount of supernatural light could fix a failing heart."Left side, Calista! Move" Kael’s voice has a panicked rasp in the dark. He shoved open an heavy metal fire door at the back of the depot and his shoulder dented the steel as he forced it past a rusted latch.I hauled my Dad through the gap with my boots skidding on loose gravel. My injured ribs were screaming with every shift of his weight, but I locked the pain away. I didn't have room for it. My Dad's head rolled against my neck, his skin clammy and freezing. His breathing was a wet sound of fluid filling his lungs.Cardiogenic shock my medical brain yelled, ticking off the variables with terrifying speed. Aortic valve failure. Acute pulmonary edema. He has twenty minutes before his brain starves."Where are we going, Kael?" I gasped the alleyway outside swallowing us in cold while pouring rain. The water hit my face, washing away the black ash of Morgath’s skin but, i

POV: Calista RiversThe Hudson River was so cold and still felt heavy, like a sheet of liquid iron slamming into my chest.The black water completely swallowed me up while cutting off the wail of the sirens and the smell of the smoke in a single second. The current beneath the pier was just a chaotic vacuum. It kept dragging me downward and tumbling my body through the dark until my head struck a wooden piling.Pain flared across my temples but by then, my lungs were already screaming for oxygen.I fought my way toward the surface even as my heavy water-logged boots pull me down like anchor stones. When my head finally broke the water, I gasped as I sucked in a mixture of freezing rain and salty river spray. "Calista! Grab the line!"Kael’s voice cut through the roar of the water. He was ten feet away and his arms cut through the rough swells with terrifying ease. He was driving through the current with the brutal power of a wolf crossing a flooded river. He reached out with his fi

POV: Calista RiversKael ran fast. He looked like a wild animal that was possessed by a demon. His long legs moved quickly down the dark streets while I held onto his neck with the good arm. Every single bump we hit, and every sharp turn he made sent a horrible flash of pain straight through my broken collarbone. It felt like a jagged piece of glass was digging deep into my skin. I buried my face into his wet leather jacket. I bit my bottom lip so hard I tasted copper just to keep myself from screaming out into the rainy nightAbove our heads, the tracking drones made a loud humming sound. Their bright blue searchlights kept cutting through the heavy pouring rain like giant fingers hunting for prey. They were everywhere. The entire city felt like a massive cage that was locking shut around us. There was no safe place left to hide.Finally, Kael turned into a dark alleyway that was filled with wet trash and old boxes. He skidded to a sudden stop in front of a heavy steel door. The

POV: Calista RiversThe river hit us like a falling brick wall.The freezing water slammed into my face and quickly made its way into my nose and mouth. The impact tore my hand right out of Kael’s grip. The black current was too strong, it spinned my body around and around like a piece of dead wood. I couldn't tell which way was up or which was down. Everything was just total blackness.My lungs felt like they were going to burst inside my chest. The tight cloth bandages around my ribs and shoulder grew heavy with water dragging my body down into the deep muck. The sharp pain in my broken collarbone was a steady, blinding scream in my mind.*Fight it* my brain ordered. *Do not open your mouth. Kick your legs.*I forced my boots to move, pumping my legs hard against the heavy pull of the river. My head finally broke through the rough surface. I gasped loudly in the cold night air and a mouthful of dirty river water. The freezing rain was still falling in hard sheets and blurring the