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“Normally, we would take out everyone on the lower floor first,” Zachary said, “but we know Heskel is the priority just like Piaras was. We can’t allow a vampire to control a hunter.”
“I want to go upstairs and get him if he’s up there,” Jacqueline said, though she knew she couldn’t actually eliminate him.
“I’m with you, Jacqueline,” Dane said.
“Me too,” Stacey said.
Zachary said to Matt, “Can you, Trey, and Ryan take care of anyone in the rooms down this hallway?”
Matt inclined his head.
Then Adonis joined them. “The man was a blood bond. He took one of the cars and left, not wanting any part of getting himself killed over this. He said Heskel is with his girlfriend upstairs. I’ll go with whoever is headed to the upper floor and then the others will handle whoever is down here.”
Jacqueline wondered what was going on with Michael and Danai, but then Adonis disappeared, and Jacqueline did the same thing to join him at the landing upstairs.
Dane, Zachary, and Stacey joined them. The others stayed down below to take care of anyone in the hallway who might be a threat.
Once they were all upstairs, Adonis motioned to the door of a room left open.
“The master’s bedroom?” she telepathically asked Adonis.
He inclined his head. Then Adonis vanished and appeared inside the room. She wanted to go in there so badly, but she was afraid then that she would sabotage the mission. She said to Dane, “Go! I’ll help the others downstairs.”
He hugged and kissed her. “Stay safe.”
“And you.”
Then she vanished and ended up downstairs with the others. They were waiting at closed doors, and she suspected it was because they didn’t want to wake anyone and alert Heskel. She was used to going in and fighting, not this breaking into a vampire’s lair and waiting. Her heart, and everybody else’s, were beating like crazy.
She heard someone coming and turned to see Michael and Danai joining them. Jacqueline was actually glad to have some other hunter-turned vampires with her to help fight the battle if they got into it. Suddenly, all the doors began being thrown open and she heard fighting upstairs at the same time. Heskel must have alerted the occupants down below that he was in a fight, and to come to his aid. But they hadn’t expected to find hunters right outside their bedrooms.
Five of the vampires were wearing pajama shorts, two were naked, but they all were armed with swords. They immediately hissed at them, showing their deadly fangs. That was an indication they were all rogues. If they hadn’t been, knowing the ones they faced were hunters, they would have put their weapons down. Instead, they had shown their fangs, indicating they were dangerous and ready to battle it out with them.
Three of the vampires were on Jacqueline’s and Dane’s terminal list: Maggard, Quillon, and Paine. She went after Paine. He was a tall blond wearing black PJ shorts and he immediately thrust his sword at her. She vanished and struck at Quillon, a redhead, who was just as shocked as the other rogues who hadn’t expected any of the hunters to be vampires too.
Just as quickly, Paine came at her back, and she vanished. Paine struck Quillon in the heart with his sword, not anticipating she was going to hear Paine behind her and that she could move like that. Now that was the perfect tactical move!
Trey and Ryan had already taken down a vampire each as she fought Paine, who was so angry that she had outmaneuvered him that he was slashing at her without using the control he needed to be successful. She was alternately striking his sword and vanishing and appearing in a new location, which meant he was constantly trying to anticipate her moves and he wasn’t doing a good job of it.
Matt took down Maggard, who was one of the guys on her and Dane’s list. It didn’t matter. They had to just come out victorious, no matter who took down which rogues.
To her shock, Heskel suddenly was in front of her, and she thought Paine was going to stab him like he had Quillon accidentally. But then Heskel said, “You’re coming with me,” and he grabbed her wrist and vanished.
“He has got me,” Jacqueline said to Dane, knowing he would tell the others.
“Where are you now?” Dane sounded levelheaded and not panicky, which she was glad for because she was panicking.
“I think somewhere else in the house. A…a cell.”
“Adonis said that’s where his parents and his younger sister had been locked up. We’re on our way.” Dane showed up in the room where a cell was located.
Heskel smiled wickedly. “Kill him,” he commanded Jacqueline as soon as Dane came to fight him.
But a whole swarm of hunters showed up and Dane thrust his sword into Heskel’s heart before the rogue could vanish, instantly breaking his connection over Jacqueline. Heskel’s body wizened like a grape wizened into a raisin. Jacqueline likewise collapsed and Dane rushed with his vampiric speed to gather her in his arms before she hit the floor and kissed her. “Are you okay?”
“God, yes. He was trying to force me to kill you and I was fighting the command. I would never have forgiven myself if I had hurt you. When you terminated him, his control over me was broken, but at the same time, I blacked out briefly.”
“We need to call this in,” Matt said, usually the one to call the police and have them come for statements. “Do we know who all of the vampires were?”
