Man in Black (BLACK KNIGHTS INC: RELOADED #3) by Julie Ann Walker EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Julie Ann Walker
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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Senator McClean’s residence, 2700 N. Lakeview Ave.
Eliza tasted blood. Hot. Salty. Iron-rich.
She smelled blood too. That thick, rusty aroma was unmistakable.
And when she blearily opened her eyes, all she saw was blood. A
crimson sheet of it. As if someone had thrown a bucket into her face,
coating her eyeballs in the stuff.
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But whose blood?
Hers?
If so, she felt no lightheadedness. No wooziness. No pain.
Correction. Her cheek hurt and she could feel her heartbeat in her left
temple. But it wasn’t the kind of agony one would associate with that much
blood loss.
But maybe that was how it worked when one was mortally wounded.
Maybe the brain had a way of disconnecting from the body in the final
moments so the person could pass in peace.
She waited for the fear to rise, that inevitable apprehension of the great
transition and the unknown that watched from beyond. But it never came.
Waited for the tears to fall, to feel the deep regret for all the things she’d
wanted to do but hadn’t yet. But they never fell. Waited for her heart to
slow, for her thoughts to dim. But neither of those things happened either.
Thirty seconds became a minute. A minute turned into two. Finally, she
was forced to admit that, despite the copious amounts of blood, she didn’t
appear to be dying.
Which left her only one course of action. Take stock. Reevaluate. Try to
make sense of the state of myself.
She started with her toes, gave them a little wiggle, and found they
worked. Woohoo! Moved on to her fingers and was delighted to discover
they, too, functioned the way they were meant to. Yippee!
Ankles? Check.
Wrists? Check, check.
That’s where her progress ended, unfortunately. When she tried to lift
her legs, she couldn’t. Same for her arms. They were pinned solidly against
her sides.
She was almost certain she was lying face down with something on top
of her. Something extraordinarily heavy that kept her body restrained and
her cheek smashed tight into…
What? The floor? The ground? The foundation of a building that’d
caved in on her?
Where am I?
She couldn’t remember. Not where she was or why she was there. She
couldn’t even recall when it was. Day or night? Monday or Friday? April or
October?
A black hole had taken up residence in the center of her brain. A deep
void that sucked in every thought before she could latch onto it. Which was
far more terrifying than the taste and smell and sight of blood. Because not
knowing the who or how or why of what’d happened meant she hadn’t the
first clue how to save herself from the thing that held her immobile.
Or…maybe not completely immobile.
When she went to grab the locket she wore around her neck—a gesture
so ingrained it was almost like breathing—her elbow bent. Just a little. But
more than that, the weight pinning her shifted.
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