Page 66 of Cherished By the Sinners
“That seems like a waste of blood.”Darlene’s voice was oddly inflectionless.Distant.Cold.
“Not if I wait a few hours for the alcohol to leave your system.Then I can drink your blood down to the last drop.”
Something crashed against concrete.It echoed through the building with a metallic boom that reverberated around the space.
Baz was putting in more of an effort to get Sebastien’s attention.Good.
“Eli,” the British vampire roared.“End the noise.”
No one answered him, but there was another massive crash.And then Baz laughed, and he sounded like he’d gotten drunk again.Either that or he was planning to audition for the next production of Nosferatu.
Sebastien snarled and ran toward the noise, his footsteps quickly disappearing as he got farther away.
Magnus let go of his brother and they burst through the fabric room divider.
Darlene was sitting on a recliner, covered in blood.Her eyes were wide, but sightless.Her face frozen, flat, and faded.
Magnus had seen people with that exact lack of expression on their face before.In men fresh from a battlefield, and traumatized victims of violence.
Mason moved so fast he was a blur as he grabbed her and pulled her up, his intent to carry her clear.
She gasped as her arm nearly jerked her out of Mason’s hold, and made a small, pained sound.
Mason stopped, his face full of horror.“Darlene?”
The British bastards had handcuffed her to the chair.
“Get her out,” Magnus snarled.“He’s coming back.”He spun, letting his brother take care of Darlene, as the British vampire charged him.
The idiot shouted and snarled and howled, and none of his noise contained words.
Magnus drew his long knife concealed in a sheath along his spine.Shorter than a sword, but longer than most knives, the attacking vampire didn’t even try to dodge.He ran straight onto Magnus’s blade.
Not that that would kill him, or even slow him down much.For that Magnus needed to remove his head.
Magnus pulled his knife out and stabbed the other man through his temple with it.“Get her out of here,” he growled at his brother.He wasn’t going to end this bastard while Darlene could see him do it.She had enough nightmares in her head.
