Demon Hunters 1: Blood Sacrifice (Stand Alone Series) (Demon Hunters.) Read Online Free PDF

Alyssa, without pause for breath.
    “Slow down.” Alyssa forced herself to laugh. It was her usual response to her friend’s inability to go slow.
    “You know you could’ve invited me along if the day’s been that much fun.”
    Alyssa closed her eyes. A wave of relief rushed through her that Erin had been sensible enough not to hop in the car with her last night. Last night! It seemed like it was so much longer than that.
    “Allie? You still there?”
    “Yeah. Sorry. I was distracted. Hey listen. We went to the beach and I ran into some people that are heading to Cairns. They’ve got a job at a resort up there and one of the girls going with them pulled out at the last minute so I said I’d take her place.”
    “You what? Are you totally insane? What about Nathan?”
    “Oh, I left him at the beach with his mates and their girlfriends. This was too good to pass up. I’ve always wanted to see far north Queensland.”
    “Allie? You sure everything’s okay? You’re not in any sort of trouble are you?”
    Alyssa forced herself to laugh again. “Do you think I’d be ringing you to chat if I was? Really Erin, you’ve been watching too many horror movies.”
    “And you haven’t been watching enough. You can’t just take off with people you’ve met for only a few seconds.”
    “I can’t go home either.”
    “Have you told your parents?”
    “No. I’m just going to text them. It’ll be easier.”
    “Ring me every day to let me know you’re safe.”
    “I can’t. My phone’s running low on credit. I’ll text you.”
    “How will I know it’s you?”
    “Erin! Who else is likely to send you daily text messages from my phone? Get real.”
    Erin laughed. “I guess. But this is so unlike you. I nearly died when you hoped in that car. I thought I’d never see you again. Don’t keep doing stupid things like that. Please?”
    “I swear I’ll live as safely as an eighty-year-old woman once I get to Cairns.”
    “Great. I’m going to hold you to that.”
    Before Erin could continue, Alyssa changed the topic. “Did Aiden turn up at the party last night?”
    “Of course.”
    Alyssa smiled as she let Erin complain about her brother for a bit. She eventually interrupted. “I need to go or I won’t even have enough credit to text you. Bye Erin.” There was so much more she wanted to say. So many things she couldn’t voice without alerting Erin to the fact she was in trouble. The worst trouble she’d ever been in her entire life.
    “Okay. Later.”
    Alyssa hung up and stared at her phone. She needed to send a text message to her parents. How was she going to word it? She continued to stare blankly at it. No words came to her mind. Pain shot through her as she thought of how her relationship with her parents had deteriorated in the past seven years. Would they blame themselves for her death? How could she make them understand this was her own stupidity?
    “You going to send that message? Time’s wasting, Princess.”
    She wished there was something she could throw at him. Anything. She wanted to wipe that look of amusement from his face. But there was nothing. The room was almost empty. And she wasn’t throwing any of her things. They were hers. All that was left of her old life. All that was left of her life because it didn’t look like there was going to be a way out of this situation. Alyssa stopped that thought the moment it arrived.
    I’ll find a way, she thought fiercely. She opened her contact list to text her parents when it started to ring. It was her home number. She had to admire her mother’s persistence. And yet in her they called it stubbornness and complained.
    “Who is it?” Nathan demanded.
    “My parents.”
    “Answer it.”
    “No.”
    Nathan rose to his feet, and strode towards the bed. Alyssa looked up at him. A shiver of fear darted through her body as he towered over her. She banished the feeling and tried to regain the numbness of earlier.
    “Answer the phone, now.”