In The Moonlight – Vada Ryan

If we can just get to his bike, we’ll get out of here. He’ll take me to the safe house, and then…and then I can figure out what to do with my life in this new world of ours. Silas is true to his word. As soon as the trail flattens out, he sets me on my feet, makes sure I’m steady, and then takes my hand and tugs me forward.

He leads the way through the woods at a fast clip, navigating over rocks and tree roots with ease even in the dark. I put all my focus on following right behind him. It’s that or panic, and he was right. There’s no time to panic right now.

That can come later. Right now we just have to keep moving forward, so that’s what I do, my gaze fixed on Silas’s broad shoulders as he guides us to safety. We spend an hour making our way through the dark woods before Silas leads us up the slope again. The house he approaches is in even worse condition than the ones in my neighborhood are: broken windows, back door hanging off its hinges, and a fallen tree that has caved in the roof on one side.

I slow my steps as Silas approaches that broken back door, eyeing the tree. He glances back at me when he realizes I’m lagging behind. “Hurry,” he says, waving me forward. “We need to get under cover.” That tree makes me nervous, but I trust Silas more than anyone else in the world right now.

So I nod and follow him through the broken door, then wait just inside the threshold as he checks the rest of the house. “It’s clear,” he says when he returns a minute later. “We’re okay here, for now.” That’s as good as it gets anymore, and it’s enough for me to feel comfortable tucking my gun back into the holster I always keep at my hip, ready for easy access the instant I need it.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Formatted with Vellum OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 About the Author Also by Vada Ryan OceanofPDF.com CHAPTER 1 Grady is bleeding out on our living room floor, and there isn’t a thing I can do to help him.

“Nothing in the kitchen, boss,” a man says, and a boot stomps in response. “Check every drawer and cupboard you find,” a second man says, his voice rougher and older than the first one. This one is the ringleader, from what I can tell, and I’m pretty sure he’s the one who stabbed Grady in the gut. “Closets too. If there are meds in this house, I want ‘em.” “You got it,” the first man answers, and his heavy footsteps retreat from the room again. “You won’t…find…anything,” Grady mumbles, his voice barely audible now.

“I don’t…keep meds here…anymore.” “I don’t believe that for a second, Doc,” the rough man says. “Just like I don’t believe your pretty wife left you. She’s got to be hiding here somewhere.” “She’s…not,” Grady gasps. “You won’t…find her.” “We’ll see about that,” the man says, and another wave of panic washes through me.

But that won’t do me any good. I force myself to keep breathing slowly in through my nose and out through my mouth as silently as I can. This hiding spot has kept me alive twice before today, but if I can’t keep quiet these men will find me in no time. And thanks to the graphic things they’ve said to Grady over the last half hour, I know exactly what they’d do to me if they got their hands on me.

I would do anything to keep that from happening. Anything. But right now, all I can do is wait them out. And hope with everything in me that they don’t look down. In another half hour, the man with the rough voice tells his companion that Grady is dead. But they don’t leave. Instead they linger in our house for hours, tearing it apart in search of medicine that isn’t here.

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