Raft Chapters Novels & Stories

And find out if there was any way to fix it. As she drove, Caitlin thought again of the rare books she had found in her library. Most of all, she that of that one rare volume, and its torn page. She thought of its ancient ceremony, the one in Latin, with its cure for vampirism. She wondered again if it was real. Was that just passed down from folklore? An old wives’ tale?

Chapter: 31. ****** Rafa dashed through the forests, snapping twigs out of his way and dodging vines that threatened to snag at him from all directions. The leaves crumbled beneath his feet, leaving him in a cloud of green and brown, but that hardly slowed him down. A few times he had to jump over fallen trees or dodge thick clumps of underbrush that blocked his path, but it didn't stop him. In fact, it only served to make him faster. He was a whirlwind of speed and energy, a creature of instinct that no amount of training could tame. He was nothing more than a natural predator, one that knew how to run faster than his prey. But then there were moments when even Rafa couldn't keep pace with

The black oilcloth cover was cracked along the spine, showing the coarse white thread underneath, and it smelled faintly of machine oil, salt damp, and old pocket lint. Rafe sat heavily on the very edge of the rough sawhorses, his thick work boots tucked into the lower cross-braces of the yellow steel frames to keep his feet out of the widening puddle near the floor drain. His shoulders were hunched forward, his blunt, calloused fingers slowly tracing a thin line of faded red ink down the center of a hand-ruled grid. He had spent twenty years keeping books like this—informal records that didn't go through the regional servers, numbers that couldn't be requested by a federal subpoena because

Scarlett POV Maybe it was a side effect of my heartache, but in the days that followed, I felt utterly exhausted, too tired to eat, and found myself throwing up again and again. Lucien, his face full of concern, begged me to go to the hospital. But I refused. A trip to the emergency room would immediately expose the pup's existence, and I couldn't let that happen. "It's probably just the shock from the champagne tower," I offered as an excuse. "It really scared me. All I see when I close my eyes are glass shards."

VERA A sharp pain greeted me as I opened my eyes, causing me to force it shut for a while. I felt a throbbing ache at the back of my head like I had been hit. What the hell happened? I tried to move my hands and legs but I couldn't. I opened my eyes again and saw that I had been tied up. I groaned, trying to free myself but I couldn't. The rope was tied tightly around my wrist and legs. I was tied to the chair.

Five against two, in zero gravity, inside a monster, with no weapons, no capital, and no powers. "Jack!" Katherine shouted over the roar of collapsing dimensional architecture. "Whatever you are doing with those fragments, do it faster!" Jack was not fighting. He was talking. The Utterance's word, remember, had cracked the Principal Creditor's grief like a chisel through ice. Fragments were coalescing around Jack, drawn to his zero-value signature like iron filings to a magnet. Each fragment that touched him added another memory, another emotion, another piece of the shattered mind that had once been a person.

Then she hits the monkey bars. I wince. The distance between each bar is… brutal. And Cala doesn’t have the same reach as Torin. She goes for the traditional swing—one bar to the next—but the gap between them is just too wide. Her fingers brush the next grip and—nope. She drops like a stone. The net catches her with a satisfying bounce, and she groans. She looks more annoyed than hurt. Fair enough. “Sinclair,” Maddox calls next. Rafe steps up, quiet but assured, he looks focused, his brown eyes scanning the course like he’s running simulations in his head. I like that—tactical brain.

Talya slowly entered the circle, late, but with teeth extended. Fredock screamed using cat vocal cords and then shifted to man. Talya didn't stop her approach, grabbed his arm, bit down, and viciously tore it from his body. With one arm and one leg, he didn't bother shifting again. Nikka raked her claws down his chest and into his stomach. His entrails fell to the ground. Crazy eyes looked back at them for one moment as sanity returned. "Raykon will kill every fucking bitch here." Talya grabbed his other arm in her teeth and chomped down, adding pressure until everyone heard the bones crack.

Before I could bolt, I felt him grip a chunk of my hair, yanking me back, causing me to fall back into his huge build. "Ow! Raul! St-" I cut myself off with a frightened scream when he through me onto the ground. My body bounced and rolled a bit from the strong impact before he stopped me by stomping on my leg. Grunts, groans, pain. Daily things for me when I'm with Raul which is always considering I have to live with the asshole. Kick after kick, the all too familiar metallic taste hit my taste buds until the crimson liquid was being coughed up.

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