The Blood Covenant: Mistrust, Division, & Murder (ePub)

Act One: Mistrust

Tessa (Red) Parker

I looked at my rearview mirror and noticed it was a group of people. However, I couldn't see cuz the smoke from their car and headlights blinded me, so I couldn't identify who they were, but one thing I could make out from their silhouette was what they were carrying; and when I realized what it was, my blood went cold.

"Maybe they just wanna talk?" Fox shivered a sob where she sat crouched behind the driver's seat; that's why she was pissed when I slammed the breaks. These people were carrying spears and guns and not the tiny kind either; it was shotguns and AK's, from what I could tell.

"Now, can I shoot them?" Nessa asked me, "Wait," I said, glaring down at my hands and noticed they were shaking violently. I let out a shuddering breath to calm myself down.

"Wait, who died and made you the fucking leader!" Fox argued with me, and they kept walking towards the car as they almost huddled around it.

"Shut up, Fox, for once, please, just stay quiet,"

"Maybe it's Park Rangers or something, and maybe they can get us the fuck outta here; I need to be around people again. I can't deal with this shit right now," she cried.

I noticed Stone hid her gun under her blouse and turned to face me with a stern expression, both of us silently acknowledging between us that Toto, we aren't in Kansas anymore.

Then a black kid who looked to be our age stepped beside the driver's seat, and I peeped from the corner of my eye. There were two people on both sides of the doors by the backseat windows, and from the rearview mirror, two more people stood behind us.

"Well, that was really rude of you to go and wreck our car like that when we were just trying to have some fun," He claimed with a friendly smile.

I chuckled wryly, "Ah right, sorry, listen; we'll find a way to pay for the damages,"

"Don't worry. You won't get very far, not from us anyway,"

"What do you want, you fucking psycho!" Fox shouted from the backseat.

"Oh, didn't you know? These woods are hunting grounds, and what better target practice than you guys, seeing as you're lost and all,"

"No, no, we aren't lost, really, just uh, we took a detour to get to the main road back to the city," I lied, but when the guy looked at my hands gripping the steering wheel tight, and my heart was beating so damn loud it rang in my ears, please I hope he can't hear my heart racing like a fucking jackhammer.

"Oh yeah?" He said, taking his stance, and aimed the AK at me, and when he did, I held my hands up, I'm gonna die.

College students Tessa Parker (Red), Inessa Alexeyev (Nessa/Stone), and Kalina Izumi (Fox) were driving one day after classes to grab some food, but the GPS was acting weird and took them down a deadly detour in the woods where now they are being hunted by other college students. But that's only Act One. After being hunted, and put to the test in Act One, now Tessa finds out she has a strange ability based off of her choices, and joined together with her friends, she KNOWS there's more going on behind the scenes in the school, but would anyone believe her due to her strange abilities? In this psychological thriller novel, based off of the authors nightmare, comes the story of Fear, and how deadly it really is both in the context of this story, and in real life.