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“What about Mom? Does she know any of this?”
Bubba shook his head “I’ve kept all my nocturnal activities away from you and your o, I knew better than to let her in on anything er either of you”
“What attack?” Nick asked
“When you … or rather my son, was a baby, y’all were at horabbed yourhat had happened With the fact that her attacker wasn’t human But after that, I knew I couldn’t just stand by and do nothing while those creatures ran loose on innocent people Soot to take a stand For yourself and for others”
Nick smiled “You’ve said that last bit to me a lot over the years … that and don’t double tap when you can pull a triple”
“And that you’d rather be judged by twelve than carried by six,” Kody chimed in
Savitar snorted “Sounds like you’re basically the sa, and here I always thought I was original One of a kind”
While they drove through the city, Nick wondered if that event Bubba had described hat had killed Bubba’s family in his world When Kody had told him Bubba’s wife and son had been murdered, he’d assu supernatural …
It would definitely explain a lot about Nick’s favorite lunatic
As they turned onto Ursulines, the sky above them darkened with clouds And it came on fast
They collectively sucked in their breaths
“That’s bad, isn’t it?” Nick asked
Kody nodded an instant before lightning struck their SUV and sent it careening To Bubba’s credit, he kept it upright, but it was toast as they ca a parked car by the breadth of a hand Bubba tried to start the engine
It wouldn’t even turn over
Nick ground his teeth as he heard an all-too-fa nearer “Please, sos”
“We can say that, but we’d be lying” Savitar opened the door and sent a blast of fire into the air
Nick unbuckled his belt and opened his door “Can we make it to Sanctuary?”
Kody shook her head “There’s no Sanctuary here, Nick”
His jaent slack with her news No It wasn’t possible How could there not be a Sanctuary in New Orleans? “What?”
“They don’t have Were-Hunters in this realhast “None? Seriously?”
“None,” Savitar repeated as he grabbed Nick froet the kids to the convent I’ll cover you”
Bubba pulled out a gun the likes of which Nick had never seen before as they ran down the street Nick looked up at the dark sky and gaped at the sight of a thousand winged deht at them
“Run!” Savitar barked as he sent more fire blasts at the demons
Nick didn’t hesitate
As soon as Nick reached the convent wall, he heard shots He started to look back, but he knew better That fool always got eaten in movies And Nick didn’t want to be on anyone’s menu
Except s out to kill theate, and tried to open it It was locked tight And the de on the street in front of the church entrance
Shooting her own fire blasts at therabbed her and threw her up on the wall as high as he could
She scrambled over the top then leaned back and held her hand out to hi start and leaped for it His hand touched hers an instant before he was thrown to the ground, on the wrong side of the fence
“Nick!”
Dazed from the impact, Nick kicked the demon off him But as he tried to rise, three ain His ears rang with the sound of their hisses and flapping wings
So warrimaced as pain consureat battle against horrible odds, or from some noble sacrifice for the ones he loved
It ended with hell- all over hiet free when all of a sudden so And not with their wings
“Get your filthy paws off my son, feet pue tan!”
Nick’s eyes widened at the Cajun insult his mother hurled at the demons as she literally batted them away from him Where had she learned that? He hadn’t even known she’d ever heard such For that matter, she once washed his mouth out because he called someone an idiot
Impressed, and terrified of her, Nick held his hands up to shield his face as she cas “Ma! I’m under here Don’t kill me!”
She jerked him up from the street by his arm and shoved him toward the convent, where Kody had opened the sate “Get inside, Boo”