Page 113 of Bitten By Desire
I ran past an old lady walking her dog. She stared at me like I was crazy for running around town at this hour. But she was out too. And she was probably a witch or something. Was she whispering something under her breath at me?This freaking town!
I picked up my speed.
Luckily the train station was exactly where I’d remembered it.
Even luckier was the fact that there was a train leaving in ten minutes. It was going in the opposite direction of my home, but I didn’t even care. I just needed out of this town as fast as possible.
Bennett was a werecat. I’d seen him transform. Otto too.
My heart was racing even faster than it had been when I was running. Standing here alone at the train station was just freaking me out even more.
Werecats weren’t real. They weren’t. And yet…they were real. And I’d kissed one. I’d done more than kissed one.
My phone started buzzing like crazy. A combination of calls from Zoey and Bennett. I was right. They were definitely in cahoots. I don’t know why I didn’t see it sooner. It was so obvious. Zoey lost her mind andmoved to this town because she was a werecat too. That made perfect logical sense.
I stared down as my phone buzzed again and a text came through from Bennett: “Are you okay? I know that was a lot. But we can talk about it now. Come back to the bank.”
Was he out of his damned mind? I wasn’t going anywhere near that bank ever again. I was never stepping foot in this town again. I pushed out the back doors of the train station and outside to the tracks to wait for my train.
I was the only one out here. The train station was as cute as the rest of the town. But the flickering light was very out of place and made me feel increasingly uneasy.
Seriously, the whole town oozed adorableness to lure innocent people here. So why was this light flickering?
Probably because people only ever relied on trains as a last resort when they were fleeing from a monster town.
I swallowed hard. I felt like I’d walked into some kind of trap. I tried to ignore the flickering light. The train would arrive any minute now and I’d be gone. I’d be safe somewhere, anywhere but here.
Unless I didn’t make it out and my hand got taken off the rest of my body or I ended up in a body sized freezer.Stop it.
I started humming to myself, hoping to distract myself from my horrifying thoughts. But it wasn’t working. Instead I just kept thinking, “This is where I die,” over and over again. It was almost a perfect tune with the flickering of the light.
Halloween was over but I’d never felt more scared. I should have trusted my gut as soon as I stepped out of my taxi. This place was creepy. I’d known it and I’d stayed and…now I was definitely going to die.
My phone buzzed again and I ignored it.
The light started flickering more. I wrapped my arms around myself. Was it colder all of a sudden too? Or was it just in my head?
A chill ran down my spine.
Oh no.
I knew that feeling. And I knew exactly who caused it. I turned around to see Callum standing there.
Chapter 34
Tuesday
“Going somewhere?” Callum asked. He smiled like that wasn’t the creepiest thing a man had ever said to me.
“No,” I said. The lie tumbled out of me. Even though I was standing at a train station with a ticket in my hand.
“Hm.” He stepped closer, his face disappearing and reappearing in the flickering light. “It really looks like you’re about to hop on a train and skip town. Why?”
Was he kidding me right now? “How did you even know I was here?”
“I think you know.” He stopped right in front of me.
“No, I don’t know.”
