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Both of his wrists were batted away The daggers flew froround Teeth sank into his shoulder, stinging One of the vampires had teleported behind him, and a second set of teeth sank into the base of his neck Adrenaline pued to wrench the vampires off him and toss them aside But when one was removed from hi to push hiined Unlike when Victoria had bitten hi pain

He should have expected this, prepared for it, but too rown lax He’d been here before, and no one had attacked hi! They shouldn’t treat hi They were like sharks who had scented his blood, and were biting, heads shaking, trying to rip pieces of hied to buckle his knees When he hit the cold, hard ground, he lost the air in his lungs and a wave of dizziness swept through hirowled

"A "But what else can I do?"

You have the ring Use it!

The ring Hello Aden jerked his hand fro in the light With the pad of his thu his ar in every direction

Flesh sizzled Va faces Aden scra, determined to hit the doors as fast as his feet would carry hiainst, rising froh for hi red, snouts dripping with…so Poison? Acid? He stood frozen

Those beasts spotted him, and like Victoria’s had done, they reached for him, as if they were desperate to feel him He should have been scared Well, more scared But those fiery eyes…they so ranted, beastly demonlike puppies--who just wanted him to scoop them up, take the

Snap out of it! Julian growled

Seriously, dude Caleb knocked on his skull Now isn’t the time to just stand there

Run! Elijah coh the vahi toward hi forto threaten them, but there was no more liquid inside He’d used every last drop

Worse, his ar, puncture wounds all over it, and his action merely wafted the scent of his blood in their direction They closed their eyes, savoring--until savoring was no longer enough Until they wanted more

Aden’s heart pounded in his chest, and the vaain soain the others quickly followed More teeth sank into hiht with every ounce of strength he possessed He kicked He hit He even bit, but nothing broke that tough vah to push theain

And yeah, Caleb was right Aden hooked his fingers into one of the vaed There was another howl, and that vaht he heard…roaring? There it was again, and again

Yes, roars Sooff the walls And then the va snatched off Aden, not one at a tirowls, teeth choether in a soundtrack of horror

What the hell was happening?

He sat up, intending to scra, he froze The beasts had solidified Victoria had said they needed time to do so, yet somehow, someway, they’d solidified in a blink Their scales were iridescent, their teeth like ivory sabers They ss were like daggers

Even they couldn’t penetrate the vae jaws and shake Probably breaking bones, rattling skulls Each va in pain

The tall double doors burst open, and severalon, however, they stilled, gaping in terror

"Beasts!"

"What do we do?"

"This has never happened before!"

"Stop," Aden shouted "Please"

All of the beasts stilled and looked at him Bodies were dropped with a thump Those va One of the beasts roared, and the new vaainst the wall Aden remained in place

Even when one of the beasts approached hi his name He didn’t turn away from the creature in front of him, but held out his arht to protect hiainst his

All of the beasts roared this ti to pull him into her side so that she could teleport him "They’ll kill you We have to leave"

"No," he said, "no Move away fro