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The hemitheos, unable to draw because of the smell of the sewer, pulled out their guns and fired back.
The screaming of the crowds turned to panic and I found myself pushed along in a surge of people.
Aisha clung to my hand. That was the only thing that kept us from getting separated and swept in different directions.
"Where are we going?" I asked, trying desperately to stop panic from overwhelming me too.
"Over here," Aisha called, which was incredibly unhelpful, under the circumstances.
Still, as long as she had a plan, then I would follow her.
She pulled me through the throng, then tugged me sideways, out of the worst of it.
"Over here," she called out.
She drew me over to the side of a building where all four Dragonesque waited with her younger sister.
Yard and Conor smiled, but Zeph and Kayley gave me their usual cool indifference.
"It's good to see you all," I said anyway. I even gave Yard a hug, if only to annoy Kayley a little.
"If you're here, I assume Seth is dead," Kayley said, speaking to me down her small nose. "Or you ran."
"He was well on his way when I saw him last," I said. "Nice work attacking where the hemitheos couldn't fight back with power."
Kayley looked at me like I was having a go at her for standing back, but whatever. This wasn't her fight, not exactly.
Yard shot her a look. "We should go and see if they need help."
She scowled at him. "Stay here, as agreed."
He looked unhappy, but nodded reluctantly.
"We're the emergency escape route," Conor said softly. "If things go bad, we'll grab the Alpha, and you, and run."
I nodded. "Of course." Leave it to Bain and Dex to have a backup plan. "Assuming I would leave without them."
"Fortunately, that won't be necessary."
I heard Dex's voice before someone grabbed me around the waist and buried their face in my hair.
I recognised Dex's scent, but it was overlaid with something much worse.
"You stink," I told him, but I didn't push him away. Instead, I turned around in his arms until our lips met in a heated kiss. The whole world evaporated and all my troubles with it. The only thing left was his warm lips and the tickle of stubble. I wanted to drink him up and drown in what was left.
Breathless, I broke off the kiss and let him go to embrace Knox and Bain in turn.
I kissed them both too, but softer and more lingering.
"Ding dong, the asshole is dead," Dex said, looking smug.
"Thanks to Kerina and her knife skills," Bain said. "That was an impeccable throw."
"Thank you," she said. She gave us all a sardonic bow.
I hadn't seen her until now. I grinned. "That was awesome. Can you teach me to do that?"
She shrugged with one shoulder. "Sure."
