DARK SOULS (Dark Souls Series) by Ketley Allison Read Free Book Online

sleep.
    “Macy?”
    “Yes! Oh god, you’re ok. Thank god.” She sighed in relief, her liquor-coated breath wafting over me as she hoisted me up into a seated position. I winced at the smell. “I’ve been looking for you everywhere! You just disappeared! And then I find you lying like a corpse on a rooftop? What the hell? Are you okay?”
    I cringed, her voice piercing against my pounding head. “I don’t...know. I had... one drink?”
    Macy gasped. “Oh shit, did someone put something in your drink?”
    “I...” Trembling, I attempted to stand with Macy’s somewhat assistance. We both tottered against each other, losing our balance on first the right side, then the left, before we both stood. “I don’t think so. Wait. Wait. Rob, where’s Rob?”
    “Rob Pearson?” Macy asked, removing her hands from my arms only when she felt steady. She held them in the air a moment, testing her balance. “Why are you asking about him? I don’t think he’s even around, unless it’s to try to get me to sleep with him again. Wait—is he the one who gave you something?” Macy’s voice raised a few octaves at the last sentence, and I cringed.
    “No, Rob Morrow.” I said, grabbing onto her arm again as she stumbled. 
    “Who’s that? Some douche at this party who gave you something?”
    I teetered slightly with her, but was able to look at her in confusion. “No, Rob Morrow. Your boyfriend.”
    “Who? Ems, I don’t have a boyfriend,” Macy said, looking at me worriedly. “What are you talking about?”
    “You know, Rob Morrow! You guys are so cute together. We’re always talking about it, how shy and sweet he is, and that if you weren’t so such a flighty hussy, you’d probably marry him.”
    “Did you hit your head? We need to take you to a hop..a hospital.”
    My strength was coming back, and I gently extricated myself from her hold. “No, no hospital. Just home to bed.”
    I was truly dumbfounded over Macy’s reaction. Why was she acting like she didn’t know who Rob was? Was she trying to protect me? Did she see...
    “Mace, did you see him? Did you see what happened?”
    “I’ve been looking for you everywhere, going into every room and yelling your name like a crazy woman. All I found were naked limbs.” She made a face, stumbled again. “What the hell happened to you?”
    Macy grabbed hold of my arm, leading me across the uneven concrete and to the stairwell.
    “This is some shoddy construction work,” she said, glancing at the cracked, crumbling brick facade that framed our exit before we walked through the door. She held her free hand up above us, as if the strength of her arm alone could prevent falling concrete from breaking through our skulls.
    “I was having a drink with Rob on the roof, and then...” My mind blanked. Or, not entirely blanked. I vaguely remembered the smell of the blood, and that taste ...that wonderful taste.
    I wasn’t about to tell Macy that part. But I was concerned. I think I killed Rob, and while that thought terrified me, the more I started remembering it, the more numb I became. It wasn’t Rob that I killed, I reassured myself. Rob had turned into something horrific. Something that I knew my mind had to have created. There was no freaking way that thing was real.
    And if it was, I thought, where are your bruises? Why aren’t you injured? I looked down at my body, giving it a brief once-over. Nothing. In fact, my body had never looked better. There was a faint glow coming from underneath my skin, golden and sweet. I also noticed some muscle tone in my arms that I didn’t even know I had.
    “Ems, you’re seriously starting to worry me.”
    I glanced over at Macy who was studying me, a little blearily.
    Well, that made two of us.
    “You’re looking at your body like you’ve never seen it before,” she said, wobbling over the first step.
     “I’m just recovering from my fainting spell up there,” I finally said, trying to reassure her as we tentatively