Title: Return
Author: SkyeMalone
Series: Awakened
Fate (Book Three)
Genre: Young
Adult Paranormal Romance
Publisher:
Publication Date:
October 6, 2014
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For Chloe, the ocean was supposed to mean safety and for a
time, it almost did. She overcame the Sylphaen’s drugs. She discovered an
unforeseen attraction to Zeke, one that he shares for her. A life underwater
seemed possible, until she learned that nothing was as it appeared.
After an unspeakable betrayal shattered everything she
thought she knew about Zeke’s world, she and Zeke have fled the ocean for the
one place Chloe never expected to want to go.
Home.
But the challenge of living as a mermaid over a thousand
miles from the ocean isn’t the only problem facing her. Home has changed.
Enemies are waiting, ones she never saw coming. Her little Kansas town is full
of surprises.
Including Noah, the guy she left behind.
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Excerpt
“…do it in Jeri’s old
room.”
Earl’s words filtered through the
cotton stuffing in my head, barely making
sense.
“Yeah, well, seemed fitting.” He
paused. “Listen, Richard, I called you as a courtesy, on
account of how you
said one got away from you yesterday. But it took me an hour
after the girl
collapsed to get the boy to finally conk out, and with that
damn scum-sucker
metabolism of theirs, you know I can’t promise either of ‘em
will be down for
long. You and your boys want any part of this, you better
hurry up and get
here.”
Alarm struggled through me,
weighed down by an exhaustion that wanted to smother my mind
back into sleep.
Scum-sucker? He…
“Hang on,” Earl said as though
interrupting someone. “One of them ain’t breathing the same as
they were.”
My heart began to pound harder
while I fought to open my eyes. Breathing? He sounded so far
away. How could he
hear anyone
breathing?
Footsteps clunked on the hardwood
floor. Light pierced the blackness around me as I managed to
lift my eyelids. I
was on the bed, facing the doorway. In the window seat, Zeke
was slumped, his
head resting on the wall. The room was dark around us,
though the hall light
was on.
Earl came to the door. In one
hand, he held a phone to his ear, and at the sight of me, he
made an angry
noise.
“What’d I tell you? The girl’s
awake.”
He dropped the phone onto the
window seat as he strode toward me, and all my dull commands
to my muscles
couldn’t make my body move. Striding past me, he retrieved
something from the
dresser and then returned with a sports bottle in his
hand.
I tried to pull away, but he just
reached down and grabbed my head from behind, lifting it
toward him. With his
teeth, he popped open the top of the bottle and then shoved
it into my mouth.
Bitter-tasting liquid flooded my
throat. I choked, the drink spewing from my lips, but he
just dropped the
bottle and clamped an enormous hand over the lower half of
my face.
“Swallow,” he ordered.
I stared up at him. His grip
tightened on my hair, tugging at my
scalp.
“Now.”
Someone shouted angrily from the
tiny speaker of the cordless phone, their words
indecipherable. Earl’s face
darkened and he glanced to the window
seat.
Spikes crept from my forearms,
finally answering the frantic signals from my brain. As he
turned back toward
me, I flopped my arm out like the dead weight it was,
succeeding in catching
his side.
With a pained cry, he lurched
away, his hand leaving my
mouth.
I spit the liquid out and
struggled backward, half-crawling and half-tumbling from the
opposite side of
the bed.
“Zeke,” I croaked.
He didn’t move.
Earl made a furious noise while he
straightened, clutching at his side. Blood darkened his
flannel shirt.
But he didn’t look startled. He
didn’t look surprised in the least by the tips of the
iridescent knives
protruding from my skin.
“What…” I tried. “Why are
you…”
He glanced from me to Zeke, and
then to the phone still laying on the window seat. Annoyance
twisted his face.
He reached over, retrieving the bottle from the floor, and
then he returned his
gaze to me.
Clutching the edge of the bed, I
trembled. “Please. I’m not your
enemy.”
“Tell that to my
daughter.”
My brow furrowed.
He started around the bed. I
scuttled backward, my legs still refusing to hold me, though
the spikes
listened and grew longer. Half-sprawled on the floor with my
back to the wall,
I lifted one of my arms in front of me like a
shield.
Earl stopped.
“I don’t…” I managed, breathing
hard with the effort of keeping my arm up. “I don’t know
your daughter.
Please.”
A snarl curled across his mouth.
“Please,” he repeated
scornfully.
He kicked my legs, toppling me
sideways. His hand came down on my wrist, avoiding the
spikes, and he twisted
it. I shrieked as pain shot through my arm. Dropping the
bottle from his other
hand, he took my throat.
“Stab me again and I break your
neck right now,” he
growled.
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About
Skye
Skye Malone is a fantasy and paranormal romance author,
which means she spends most of her time not-quite-convinced
that the things she
imagines couldn't actually exist.
Born and raised in central Illinois, she hopes someday to
travel the world – though in the meantime she’ll take any
story that whisks her
off to a place where the fantastic lives inside the everyday.
She loves strong
and passionate characters, complex villains, and satisfying
endings that stay
with you long after the book is done. An inveterate writer,
she can’t go a day
without getting her hands on a keyboard, and can usually be
found typing away
while she listens to all the adventures unfolding in her
head.
Skye also writes YA urban fantasy as Megan Joel Peterson and
is the author of The Children and the
Blood trilogy.
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