Free New Blood (The Blood Saga Book 2) by Unknown Page B

obsession with my feast
that I was not focused enough to hear the racing through the woods.
    They were faster than any animal,
lither and more agile. Three sets of footsteps raced to encircle me. There were
whispers through the trees as they watched me. I heard nothing.
    My mind was gone and my body nearly
paralyzed from my first taste of human blood. Perfect and rich. So ambrosias .
All of that and so much more. It was my entire reason for existence I believed
in that moment. I had forgotten everything and everyone.

 

    The force of a speeding train
slammed into me. This time it hurt. A shriek of panic escaped my lips as my
body was thrown. The force ripped me from my feast and threw me into the
ground, destroying the earth where my body plowed into it.
    Crashing into a bolder buried into
the side of a hill. The rock broke and fractured into smaller pieces. Despite
the pain it was not a second after that when I was up again, bolting up and
leaping to a ledge near the falls.
    When some animals fight for their
life they don’t always take into recollection what is attacking them in the
first place. All they know is to fight. Neither their faces nor their voices
had any effect on me. It was like I was something else entirely. Lianna wasn’t
home.
    “Be easy with her, Hendrick. If you
hurt her then you’ll be fighting me next,” Damien spoke with such fury and raw
anger that I pegged him to be the biggest danger.
    Phoenix circled behind me and
landed on my back, grappling my body as his arms wrapped hard around my neck,
jerking my body to bow back. A low snarl ripped from my lips from the pain and
terror. I had the other two on me before another second passed. My legs were
being clamped down on like steel beams by the largest. Frenzy over took my
body. Fighting with everything I had, the fight dislocating joints in my
struggle, I managed to twist and kick until I threw them off.
    Just as I was free and twisting to
get away, the wiry one grabbed a hold of my shin. His crushing grip made me
scream as I felt the bone shatter under the pressure. My other foot aimed a
sharp kick for his head in my dire to get away but it did no good. He grabbed
my other ankle as it came down before I could even get close to hitting him.
    “Don’t hurt her, Phoenix! You don’t
need to break her legs!”
    Both my legs ensnared, the big one
fell on top of me suddenly. His torso crushed down on mine as both our arms
swung about madly. My body flailed with every ounce of strength I could muster.
Spine twisting and arching throwing my torso in any way possible I desperately
fought for freedom.
    “Damn she’s strong!” Hendrick
grunted as my fist connected with his jaw. Just then, the third grabbed hold of
my wrists. All three of them pinned me down in the mud.
    “Let me go!” the words ripped out
of my mouth in a snarl. The voice was that of a demon. My head was the only
thing not pinned down. Uselessly I fought, trying to bite anything near my
exposed fangs.
    “We’ve gotta get her back to the
house, Damien. We’re not the only ones out here.” Hendrick grunted again, trying
to move and find a way to wrap around me more securely.
    “Let go of her, Damien. Let
Hendrick and me take care of this,” as Phoenix spoke they all moved quickly,
repositioning. They lifted me up. Hendrick took hold of my arms, locking them
down close by my shoulders to incapacitate me. Phoenix had a firm hold on my
legs, holding them twisted in an impossible angle for them to have ever bent
naturally. I couldn’t have run on them anyway now.
    While kicking and lashing out,
Phoenix twisted my shin, separating my knee from the joint and the bone. My
shin fractured from kneecap down to the ankle. Screaming again in both pain and
panic, I lashed out. My body arched back from the searing pain. “Phoenix, if
you hurt her again I will snap every bone in your body!” Damien bellowed as we
ran.
    “If she doesn’t shut up we’re going
to draw attention to anyone