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Chapter Thirteen
Iswung around. Nope, I wasn’t hallucinating this, either. Somehow, Bones was about fifty yards away from me and closing fast. Spade was behind him, moving slower because he had a canon-like object strapped to his back, multiple ammunition belts crisscrossed over his torso, and two mega-sized machine guns in his hands.
“Darling,” Spade said as his spiky black hair blew around his pale, handsome features. “Love your new look.”
Denise’s expression was so openly shocked that I needed to get a picture. “Ooh, who’s got a cell phone handy? A dragon making that face would be the perfect meme!”
Bones and Spade exchanged a look.
“She’s even drunker than we are,” Spade muttered.
Drunker than…huh?
Belatedly, it struck me that Spade’s normally aristocratic tones were now distinctly slurred, and Bones swayed a touch as he strode toward me. I also hadn’t felt them approach and they were Master vampires with auras that crackled the air around them with their power, so I should’ve felt them.
Unless they’d both dropped out of thin air.
“That devious demon!” I said, exasperated.
Ashael knew that Denise and I weren’t involving our husbands while we were contagious, but had he respected our wishes? No, he’d teleported them here himself. At least it looked like he’d pumped them full of his blood first.
Bones flashed his fangs in something too feral to be a smile. “Exactly what I said when I learned he’d known of your predicament for days, but that’s off-topic. What’s on-topic”—he raised his voice—“is that if anyone wants to leave here alive, you will remove the hex from these women now.”
“Or I will hunt down and slaughter everyone you love after I finish murdering you in the most painful way possible,” Spade added in the coldest of tones.
“That’s dark,” I muttered while as a chorus of witches spoke. Unfortunately, most of what they said was barely intelligible from their broken speech. My teeth ground.
“They can’t chant away a curse in their condition even if they wanted to, and since they’re now marked as sacrifices, too, most probably do want to. But that immobility spell is hella effective. Did you-know-who leave you any extra blood?”
“No,” Bones said before stopping mid-stride and turning to the nearest mostly frozen witch. He ripped his wrist open with a fang and held it to her lips.
“Drink,” he said harshly.
Her eyes widened, but with Bones willing his blood into her mouth, she had no choice except to swallow.
Spade saw that and swung one of his guns over his shoulder. Then, he grabbed the witch nearest to him and fed her some of his demon-fortified blood, too.
“Now, start undoing this curse,” Bones ordered.
Both witches started to chant in clear, unbroken voices. That’s right, we could share our version of spell-buffering through our demon-altered blood. I immediately opened my wrist and held it over the mouth of the witch next to me. She swallowed twice before her eyes widened and she fell over.
“Sil…ver,” she gasped out before her eyes rolled back in her head and she spasmed as if I’d stabbed her.
Aw, shit!My blood was now vampire poison thanks to those damned silver-venom snakes. I’d probably be on the ground next to this witch, if not for all the demon blood I’d consumed. Guess I was too high to feel all the damage done to me, even though what I did feel was brutal enough.
A sharp whistling sound went off behind me, like a train barreling down the tracks. When I turned, sea spray was swirling so high in the air that it had reached the top of the cliff. It looked like a water spout, if one of those could trail a waterfall behind it like a cape. But this was no natural phenomenon. The sea goddess had reached the top of the cliff.
Suddenly, my silver poisoning was the least of my problems.
“You need to leave,” I told Bones, swinging back around. “You and Spade have already been exposed to us for too long. If you don’t go now, you’ll end up marked as sacrifices, too.”
“Not a bloody chance,” Bones snarled. “And if any of these bitches want to survive the next five minutes, they’ll undo your hex right now or they’ll get this.”
Another witch suddenly lost her head. I might not have mastered my telekinesis yet, but Bones was surgical with his abilities, if that surgeon was homicidally pissed.
“Wait, we can do it!” the witch Bones had given his blood to said. “Most of us never wanted to sacrifice kids anyway. We wanted to go after murderers or pedophiles like she said!”
“How…dare,” another witch rasped. “We honor…old ways.”
