Page 3 of Starting Over
What the actual fuck?
Who were these people?
Rain was getting more and more concerned by the minute, and then he heard Rylee say, “We have to keep the citizens of Drago safe. That’s our number one priority. It’s what being part of the DOA is all about.”
Holy shit! DOA? Weren’t they a myth?
Everyone in the paranormal world had heard about DOA. For the bad they were the boogeyman. For people like Rain… they were the guardian angels when needed.
They were exactly what Rain needed… well, if the stories he’d heard growing up were true.
DOA was created by Heck… the right hand man to the creator himself.
Man and dragon working together to take out the worst of the worst.
WAIT! They said Heck had done something at their new place… Poconos Boulevard… did that mean they were located in Pennsylvania right now?
Shit, that was a long way off from Quebec, Canada.
Damn, when Jude said he needed to get away or some shit, he wasn’t kidding.
Anyway, DOA was created to help with cases that were really bad…really, really bad. Serialists if Rain remembered correctly. All kinds of serialists…rapists, murderers, con men and women… just all together bad people that did bad things to a lot of people…and especially if anyone “other” was involved.
Mentally sighing, Rain realized that his problem had nothing to do with what DOA worked on.
Well, shit.
Then again, maybe if Rain told Jude what his problem was… maybe then he could see if DOA could help him. From the sounds of it, he had an in with the guys.
The car stopped and Rain lifted his nose and sniffed. He smelled food and people, and yuck, was that propane? Gods that shit stank.
“I’m at the grocery store. I’ll talk to you guys when I get to the cabin,” Jude said as his friends said goodbye and he shut off the car and got out.
Rain didn’t know how long Jude had been gone, and Rain must have fallen asleep again because the next thing he knew the back of the SUV was opening and Jude was putting stuff in the back part of the vehicle… most likely his groceries.
“Damn, it’s getting cold,” Jude muttered.
Rain was snuggling back in when the coat he’d been hiding under was ripped away. “What the fuck?”
Rain let out a squeal of surprise and rushed under one of his pieces of clothing. However, it wasn’t long before that was also removed.
“What the fuck?” Jude said again, and Rain couldn’t stop but look up at the man as fear completely filled him.
“You aren’t a mouse. At least I don’t think so. I’ve never seen a mouse with that big of a nose,” Jude muttered.
Rain would be offended about the nose comment, but what could he say? He wasn’t wrong. There was a reason they called his animal an elephant shrew.
“Your eyes remind me of my friend Lex and the guys in New Mexico. I can see the intelligence in them and there’s this… thing, that screams shifter when I look in them. Who are you and why are you in my car?” Jude demanded.
Rain shifted, shaking from both fear and the cold, begging, “Please, don’t kick me out. Please, I need help and I heard you talking to your friends and you have an in with DOA. Please, will you call them and get me help? I don’t want to die.”
Jude drew back, looking around. “Calm down and get dressed. We’re lucky and it’s kind of late so we don’t have many people here right now, but I honestly don’t want people asking questions on why I have a naked man in my backseat. When you’re done, you and I are going to talk.”
“Well, shit,” Rain muttered as he got dressed.
CHAPTER 2
Jude watched as the young man got out of the car and made his way to the passenger seat. Turning, he said, “Name.”