Page 50 of Shadow Warrior
It knit before my eyes, and then Blake’s lids fluttered closed. Crashes and bangs, the sounds of a fight drifted up to the room, and then the door was slammed open so hard it rattled on its hinges.
Trinity stood framed in the doorway, her raven hair floating about her like an avenging angel of death. Her gaze went from me to the unconscious figure of Blake on the bed then back.
She swung her crossbow up and pointed it at me. “What the fuck are you?” she said softly. Then louder, “Get away from him.”
The shadows were hiding me, protecting me, but they’d also obscured the body of the sucker I’d killed. If she shot, I wasn’t sure the shadows would stop an arrow.
Time to jet.
I blurred across the room and out the window, hit the ground, and kept going until I was in the alley across the street with a solid view of the inn. Lights were blazing, screams andthunksand crashes signaled an epic showdown. Trinity and her team were on it.
The suckers were going down.
As my heart rate dropped, the shadows retreated, sliding off me and attaching themselves to the buildings either side of me.
“Justice?” Kash came up behind me. “You’re all right.”
I nodded.
“Were you seen?” Larkin asked.
I glanced at the shadows, which were now innocuous and just regular patches of darkness. I opened my mouth to explain and then snapped it shut. This was something for Latrou, something to dissect later.
“No. I wasn’t seen.” I backed up down the alley. “We can wait for Payne at his cottage.”
