Page 99 of Reaper Unhinged
He glares at me again.
“Oh, for fucksake, I’m not trying to needle you. It’s a genuine question.”
“No,” he admits. “I know nothing about magical wards.”
“So, let’s amend your plan. You kick ass, then you come get me out and we go to the room together, andIshut down the wards.”
“That could waste precious minutes.”
“And so could you not knowing how to deactivate a ward.”
“And you do?”
“I’ve been doing my research. Reading the books. I think I’ll have more of a shot at it than you.”
“Fine. Be ready.”
The echo of boot falls tells us that our time is now.
Any minute now.
* * *
Fee
Fire ate at my side. I couldn’t breathe. Oh, shit. Oh, fuck. I was dying.
I clutched the wound, wet and warm.
Hands were on me. The tear of fabric was followed by pressure.
“It’s a flesh wound. The bullet grazed her. We just need to patch it up.”
The voice was familiar…The Magiguard with the ponytail.
“Argh!” Sobs wracked my body as she pressed down on my wound. “Fuck!”
“Derek, med kit. Now.”
“Grayson? Where’s Grayson?”
“He’s okay. He took down the gunman. “You’re going to be okay, Fee, just breathe.”
“Mother forker, that hurts!”
“Good. If it hurts, it means you’re alive,” she said with a grim smile. “All patched up.” She held out a hand to me. “Can you stand?”
I gritted my teeth and allowed her to pull me up. Fire lanced through me, making me wish for my Loup healing.
Uriel and Grayson strode toward me, expressions like thunder, while two Magiguard tied up the shooter. There were two more guys laid on the ground, already restrained.
“He needs to die,” Grayson growled. His gaze zeroed in on my side, then up to my face, and then he spun toward the human he’d just walked away from.
Uri grabbed him around the waist to halt him. “We can’t. Grayson. You know we can’t.”
“He’s human,” Ponytail snapped. “We can’t kill him. Besides, we need intel.”
“He probably radioed for backup,” Uri said. “We took down three, but there could be more on their way.”
