Free BlackMoon Beginnings by Kaitlyn Hoyt Page A

the dagger at my neck. I hear thunder crack from the outside
and the lights in the room begin to flicker.
    Colton’s eyes dart from me to an area
slightly above and behind me. I know he was trying to tell me
something. “Please move the dagger. Can’t you see you’re hurting
her?” he pleads.
    “If she would stop struggling, I may think
about removing it.” I stop moving. To my surprise, he moves the
dagger from my neck, but keeps it hovering near. He starts to take
steps backwards, dragging me with him.
    I hear the sound of glass breaking behind me
and the arms around me suddenly loosen. The knife falls to the
ground at my feet. I attempt to get out of his embrace, but his
body slumps forward, knocking me to the ground with him. I’m
trapped under the weight of him. Four arms reach down and pull the
man off of me. I look up and see Colton and David, both reaching
down to help me stand.
    I stand up and sway, falling back into
Colton’s arms. The world is spinning around me. Colton bends down
and picks me up, cradling me again his chest. David walks across
the room and grabs my duffel bag. Both run out of the house and get
into the car quickly. David jumps into the driver’s seat and Colton
sits in the passenger seat, with me in his lap. No one bothers to
buckle their seatbelts as we speed out of the driveway and back
towards the house.
     

Chapter Nine
    I’m pretty sure I went into shock. That seems
to be the only possible explanation as to why I don’t remember
anything from getting into the car to arriving at the house. In a
day, I have gone from being a nobody who lived a boring simple
life, to a mage who is wanted by both sides. When we get to the
house, I finally come back to my senses. Colton gets out of the car
and carries me straight into the kitchen, calling for Aunt
Claire.
    Claire runs into the kitchen and gasps when
she sees me. “What happened?”
    “I’m fine. Colton, you can put me down now.”
Colton looks at me. Once he’s sure that I’m okay, he slowly puts me
down, keeping his arms on my shoulder to make sure I don’t fall.
When I don’t sway, he drops his arms, but doesn’t step away from
me.
    “When we got to the house, Ryanne stepped out
of the car and said that she thought something wasn’t right. I
surveyed the house and didn’t find anything wrong, so she went
upstairs to get some clothes. While she was gone, some guy came in
and attempted to hack me to bits. He had a sword, but I was able to
knock him unconscious. When I turned around, I saw a man holding
her with a dagger to her neck. David snuck up behind him, hit him
with a vase and knocked him unconscious too. I’m a little surprised
that worked, by the way. I thought he would be a little harder to
fight, but whatever. We grabbed Ryanne, and left. Now you are
caught up,” he explains quickly.
    “Oh my gosh sweetie, let’s see what I can do
for that cut.” She puts a finger under my chin, and lifts it up,
examining the cut. “It doesn’t look too deep. One second, let me
get the first aid kit.” I stare at the door that she just walked
through for a couple of seconds before turning around and looking
at the two guys behind me.
    “Thank you, both of you.” They are both
looking at me so intently.
    David clears his throat, “Ryanne, you don’t
ever have to thank us.”
    “I—”
    “Okay, here we go. I brought a shirt for you
to change into. Yours is covered in blood. Colton, David, turn
around.” I feel a little self-conscious changing in front of
Claire, with Colton and David in the room, but I listen anyways. I
pull my shirt over my head and grab onto the one that Claire
brought for me.
    “This will probably sting a little.” I gasp
in surprise when the wet wipe hits the cut. It did sting. A lot.
“This doesn’t need a healer, since it’s pretty shallow. There’s not
a whole lot I can for it though. On the plus side, since you have
come into your gifts, you should heal quicker. This cut will
probably be