Ravaged by Monsters (Dark Temptations #1)

ALIANA

I wake up only when my stomach spirals madly and I feel like I’m falling—that sensation you sometimes get when you drift off to sleep, when you tumble through a pitch-black abyss and land smack dab into unconsciousness.

But when my eyelids peel back, I find myself actually falling through the air, tumbling down toward a circle of dark trees in an overgrown parking lot.

For some reason, I don’t scream. I’m pretty certain that my motor functions have not caught up with my brain and registered the fact that I’m about to die. The wind claws at me, and I feel ice cold. My fingers are frozen sticks and won’t move an inch, not that they could do anything to save me.