Page 5 of Stone Seduction
He drew his sword. “I know you’re there, wankers.”
I followed his furious gaze, his amber eyes beacons in the night.
“Who—”
“I smell humans,” he said with a snarl. “No gargoyle protection.”
“There’s more than one?”
Well, he’d saidwankers.
“Yeah. Not sure how many. Stay close to me.”
Humans with no protection meant the gas-masked, tongueless humans who wanted me for the ring glued to my finger.
A ring to set Ember free.
Ugh. The burned woman. Another mystery and pain in my backside.
Asher lunged, his sword meeting something solid. Metal clanged against metal, my lover growling as he shoved the attacker back.
There were no marks in the sand. No footprints, no sign of anything to my human senses.
“Stay low, stay close!” Asher barked.
My body obeyed, dipping into a crouch. The whistling of weapons sounded around me, my fear palpable and threatening to weaken my bladder.
God, invisible enemies were the worst.
“Fuck!” Asher roared, parrying another attack. “Show your pissing faces!”
Cowards… They are cowards. Unleash me and I will destroy them…
Yikes.
Something sharp bit me on the back of my neck. I went down onto my belly, rolling onto my side as slimy toxin flooded my veins.
Dammit.
Stars exploded behind my eyes, preceding the tide of darkness that snatched me away into unconsciousness.
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Asher
Howling at the moon, my blood on fire, I rushed forward and crashed into a body, the human’s invisibility dropping as he hit the sand.
His mouth gaped like a dying fish, dark eyes wide with fear.
Good.
I wanted these knobheads to die in pure distress, to smell their own piss and shit as the life left their bodies.
Touch my human, suffer the consequences.
Before the human got a chance to move, I drove my sword into his guts and twisted, watching the blood bubble up from his mouth as he released a silent, choking scream.
Sensing movement to my left, I lashed out with my hand, fingers finding a throat. I crushed the invisible windpipe like a flimsy cardboard tube. Human blood drenched my hands, the rest of the tongueless scum dropping their invisibility in collective panic.
