Page 38 of Marked for Extinction
Their eyes widened and Inés scooted back from it as if proximity would make her guilty by association. The tension in the room became thick.
“What do we have here?” the second vampire questioned as he slapped Inés, knocking her sideways.
“Leave her the fuck alone!” I roared.
“You hiding this from us? This looks like blood. Where did you get this?”
I didn’t know how to answer. How do I explain the figure that slips in and out of the shadows? Did I even want to?
The vampire popped open the lid and sniffed. “Smells like blood. Is it yours? All the blood in this stupid place drives me to hunger. That bitch barely lets us go feed. Guess it’s my lucky day,” he chuckled as he threw the contents of the vile to the back of his throat.
I watched with morbid fascination as he began to choke and sputter, falling to the ground, convulsing.
“What the fuck?” the vampire holding me screeched. Distracted, his fingers loosened around my hair and I quickly bent my knees and brought my boot closer to my hand. Grabbing the other vile, I slammed it into his face, the glass piercing his eye, popping it.
He dropped me as he screamed in anguish. I didn’t know what kind of blood it was but it wasn’t human.
Inés screamed but quickly slammed her hand over her mouth to muffle the sound as her wide eyes took in the two vampire’s bodies on the ground.
“I got your back brother,” Ares’ disembodied voice cheered from the corners of the room. began to cheer.
Scrambling, I ran to the table and rummaged through all the instruments there. Hope was infecting my very being as I scoured the contents for a weapon to get us out of here. Of course they wouldn’t leave anything good behind.
“Vik!” Inés hissed. I looked over my shoulder to see her patting down the dead bodies and pulling out a few knives from their pockets. I ran over to her and patted down the other vampire.
This was our one shot and we had to take it. We were escaping this shit hole today.
The hairs on the back of my neck stood up when a familiar whistle and footsteps came up the hall.
“Inés, this is it,” I told her. Her eyes turned steely and determined, the woman I met back in Black Hollow was back. Hope coursed through both of us as we firmly gripped our weapons in our hands.
I still had one vile of blood left in my boot. We should be able to take her on.
I moved to stand behind the door and signaled to Inés to keep her attention. Inés nodded in understanding, hiding her blade behind her.
“What happened here? Tsk. Naughty little humans—”
Inés threw the knife directly at the bitch, landing it deep in her chest. The bloodsucker looked down in shock, then fury.
When she grabbed the hilt to pull it out, I came from behind the door with my own knife at her neck.
She gasped in delight, confusing me. “Vik, you’re making my pussy wet.”
The way she said my name made my head twitch. It was too familiar. Something niggled in the back of my mind but all I could concentrate on was pressing the blade into her flesh.
She slammed her head back into my forehead and I groaned. Inés screamed as she leaped up and clawed at Abyzou’s face, successfully pulling off her mask and ripping her goggles off.
“I will kill you!” Inés screeched as they both grappled on the ground, fighting for dominance.
Shaking my head, I pulled the last vile from my boot and lunged. I grabbed Abyzou’s hair, jerking her head back and shoved the vile down her throat, breaking it inside her mouth.
When she began to choke and twist in my grasp, I stumbled back at the face that stared back at me.
It took a moment for my mind to comprehend what had just happened because I couldn’t be seeing what I was seeing. Abyzou—Katherine—fell to the side, convulsing as the blood poisoned her.
I stumbled back, until I hit the wall, sliding down onto my ass. “Katherine,” I whispered.
“Vik!” Inés cried out as she ran toward me, blocking my view of our main tormentor.
