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“We’re surrounded” Dee’s tight voice And they were The vamps had planned well, and he’d been so distracted by Dee that he’d let theain
They’d fed the flaas on the area that the air tasted rancid on his tongue
“Burn, bitch, burn” The words echoed in the night, crackling above the flames
Not on his watch He threw the covers over Dee, heard her grunt as he grabbed her and tossed her over his shoulder
Then he juh the flames
The fire bit his ar hell The white-hot pain seared hi flash in the seconds it took to leap through the fire
They hit the ground His ar Dee blazed with fire He rolled her, pounding at the fire, and the dirt flew around them
The pain—aw, fk He sucked in a breath, choked on sony Used it
Dee shoved out of the cover “Si bitch,” a snarl, too close
Si in Four of them The survivors from the alley
Shouldn’t have let the Dee the hell away from that place before any of the vamps had been able to , thick Italian was at least a century old, and he had one serious addiction to pain—giving it and hearing the screams of his prey
He ca toward her neck even as he brought up his right hand, a hand that Si fist
“No! Dee, watch out!”
She twisted, her legs still partially trapped in the sht to rise
Simon jumped in front of her, and Mateo’s claws sank into his chest
Shit His teeth snapped together Oh, but the bastard had been begging for a killing for far too long
He slammed his head into the vamp’s Handy little trick he’d learned frohed and that stake came up even as the claisted in Siht then “Dee!”
Mateo’s eyes widened His lips opened, a high keening cry gurgling up in his throat
Then he slumped forward
Simon looked over the stiff man’s body Saw Dee Saw her jerk the wooden stake froot the heart”
Uh, yeah, he bet she had
He wrenched the vamp’s hand and the claws ripped froh him
Take it Use it
Simon didn’t look down at his body Couldn’t Not then If he saw the da on?” Dee whispered
His head shot up The other three vampires stood less than five feet away Their claere out, their fangs glinting in the firelight