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"Stand clear"

Sod voice, but it would defuse Rand, and Cai didn't want Brian hurt, either But nothing was going to stop him

White hot pain shot through his core, like soh his diaphrag

More rage filled hith and loosened his grip on the va down, Cai blinked, startled to see a sharp blade sticking out of his sto up close before his ribs and chest So, curved sword into his lower back and let it ee from his upper abdomen

That would explain why it fucking hurt so h if the blade hadn't been so wicked sharp, he expected it would be hurting like a hundred sons of bitches, instead of ten Maybe twenty And it hadn't severed his spine, because otherwise he would have lost feeling in his legs and crumpled to the floor

All sorts of unlikely plans to twist free of that blade shot through his mind, but his assailant was faster even than them

A palainst his neck, and a hard body, thigh to chest, pressed to his right side, so close it was lover intiainst his ear wasn't pillow talk, though

"Let hio"

Cai had his wrist deep in body cavity, his forear with blood The huertips he could feel the thud The va out Instead, his er overriding pain With the least opportunity, he'd keep fighting

Both of theht; neither able to do so Life was a bitch

"Withdraw your fist froht here"

That ca it clear why the va

"He's no servant," Cai spat "He's a vampire hunter A killer"

"He was at one tiain" The voice did so with the blade that senta cry frorowl had been growing in voluth while he'd been distracted by his impalement

A slight ht have spared a glance to his right "Your wolf is close to attacking again If he does, my cher and Lord Brian will be forced to break him into pieces Pick your battles This isn't one of them, unless you wish to die, here and now Do it"

Cai curled his lip, but he'd lost his chance to accoers anywhere closer to the heart, the vampire would know because he was there, wasn't he? Deep in the head, heart and soul of his servant He'd slice and dice Cai before he got anywhere close, and then Randfuck, he'd third marked Rand

Shit Slowly, he pulled his hand out of the vaave hiht with agony, but he still looked like he'd be happy to go a couple more rounds with Cai, as soon as either one of them was capable

But as Cai withdrew, a fereen eyes was there, easing the human down the side of the wall She refused to back off even when he seemed to want her to move back from the fray

He was protective of her, that was obvious It was also quite necessary, because the feer than Brian, and a made vampire on top of that Maybe only a few years as a vampire under her belt, which meant Cai could crush her even more easily than he could have Brian

The one at his back was a different matter He smelledancient He held the power of centuries Not as old as Lyssa, but raer and so else ardless of the difference in ages

"Be still I don't want to sever your spine," the male said in a cool, even tone "You'd heal, but it would take a very unpleasant day or two, and I understand there is a need for your services I've not har that can't be sufficiently healed within a couple hours, with some of your servant's blood But you must remain still"

Cai decided not to tell the vampire what he could do with his instruction He hated that when the blade slid free, he hissed out another sharp cry Fuck, that hurt He didn't expect Rand to be there to catch him as the beautiful female had his opponent, so he was surprised when Rand was indeed there, in hu him down to the floor

The older vampire wiped his sword across Cai's shirt front in a ritual cross n of yeah, I kicked your ass Rand shot a notably hostile glance his way The hten and step back, sheathing the katana in a scabbard harnessed to his back

He was tall, lean, with unnaturally dark eyes and a loose fall of black hair around his sculpted face He wore a gi, as if he'd been working out with that deadly blade before joining them in the study