Blended: Lucky Number Seven

By Shakuita Johnson

All Cobra Mallory remembers before waking up strapped to a metal table is talking to a cute guy at the bar. She'd only had one drink and now she was lying down in a scene straight out of a serial killer's handbook.

 

Little does Cobra know but she's next in an illegal DNA splicing experiment. Out of the six patients before her, no one has survived the procedure. So what made Cobra special and what will she do once it's all said and done.

 

* Some collaboration with L.M. Adams author of Twisted Eventide Series

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shakuita Johnson
• Release date: Sep 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201219024

Shakuita Johnson

Shakuita Johnson is a 29-year-old Psychology major. When she isn't going to school or working, she is doing what she loves most. Writing. She started writing in middle school. Starting with poetry. Then short stories in a creative writing course her senior year. Her love for paranormal and supernatural started with R.L. Stine Goosebumps books and TV shows, Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles, and Christopher Pike books. She is an avid reader with over 100 books on her bookshelf and 1000 plus on her iPad. Visit her online and read her poems and one attempt at songwriting on her blog at http://www.dark-indiscretions.com. You can also find her at www.facebook.com/shakuitajohnson. Check out her website at www.authorshakuitajohnson.com.

Book preview

ONE

A BRIEF HISTORY LESSON

15 years earlier

It was a massacre like you wouldn’t believe. Especially in Europe before all the craziness came to the colonies. Although only twenty were killed, close to 200 were accused. One of those killed were from this family. A Wildes.

Grammy, I’ve heard the story of the Salem Witch Trials in school, I say.

Yes, Cobra, I’m sure you have, but not the real version.

My great-great-grandmother, Cassandra Wildes Mallory, is old as dirt and off her rocker. She is pushing close to ninety-five, although she doesn’t look a day over seventy, and I’m convinced she has a good fifteen to twenty more years left in her. She says we have great genes. My mother said she was too crazy to die and neither God nor the Devil wanted her. But we didn’t say that when Grammy was around to hear. She had the hearing of an owl. Her long, curly red hair now has streaks of pure white throughout it, making it seem like she dyed it to look that way. She has high cheekbones, and her eyes are a tricolor of green, sapphire, and brown. She is short in stature, coming in at only five feet even. She has a fair complexion, and a splatter of freckles can be seen across her nose, though they are more pronounced in the summer months. Grammy also has a small, pointed nose and dimples in each cheek. I believe I got my nose, red hair, and skin complexion from her and my grandmother Chastity Wildes, my mother’s mother. It seems every generation skips from red to black hair except when it comes to my younger brother and sister. They have variations of blonde or brown, while my father’s hair is black.

I’m all legs and clumsy at the moment. I hope I’m half as beautiful as my grandmothers when I’m older. I guess at ten I still have hope. I haven’t even hit puberty yet, so I still have a fighting chance to be a knockout by the time I’m fourteen. As long as I start shaping out by high school, I’ll be satisfied. I do hope to pass five feet, though. I don’t want any short girl problems in my future.

It happened in 1692; how do you really know what happened and not the history books?

Are you going to let me tell the story or not? You’re worse than your mother, Grammy says.

I’m listening, I’m listening.

What does she expect from me? I’m ten, and I’m not big on the history stuff unless it has to do with those Spartans. Now I could listen to stories like that or mythology all day. But the Salem Witch Trials, I get enough of that in school.

Now where was I… Oh yes! After the Puritans left Europe for religious reasons, mainly because they felt the Church of England was too devoted to Roman Catholicism, they wanted everyone to have the same religious practices as them. They were given their name as an insult, and even though King Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church, there were still many similarities, and the Puritans didn’t like that. They believed if the king was reforming the church, he had to do away with everything Catholic about it.

Wait, was that the king with all the wives?

"Yes. After he decided he wanted to divorce his wife Catherine of Aragon, for his affections had transferred to Anne Boleyn, also because Catherine couldn’t give him a male heir, he believed marrying the widow of his dead brother caused their marriage to be cursed. When the church wouldn’t sign off on it, he broke