Page 20 of Wings of The Wraith
“No baby,” he chuckled. “But how about you try to survive this.”
It wasn’t enough notice.
The flames that coursed through his hands grew bigger and he threw them at me.
I screamed but retaliated by putting my hands up.
Instead of flames bursting from me, though, a shield of bright white light surrounded me. It looked like glass but with a white light beaming from it.
Before I could marvel at the sight, Dante sent another round of energy at me. It shattered the sphere of light, but I countered it with flames of my own.
He laughed. “Impressive, very impressive.”
Balls of energy now came my way.
On instinct I fired back sending my own energy balls at him. They crashed into his and neutralized them. He laughed, a sound that filled me, but also terrified me. This was no laughing matter.
I couldn’t see anything funny about the situation.
Balls of fucking fire were blasting from my hands.
He disappeared again and flickered back into existence right in front of me.
The shield came up again, and my energy levels dropped. It dropped like someone had taken it away.
My head...
My head felt light and the room shifted around me. Not like before. This time I was just dizzy.
Dizzy and falling.
Dante caught me before I could hit the ground.
Second time tonight, or in the space of whatever time I’d seen him.
He carried me and I rested my hands on the rigid muscles of his chest. Heat radiated from his skin and his eyes flickered gold again, but then went back to chocolate coal.
“Well done,” he said leaning in close.
“What did I do?” My voice was so weak, it came out like a whisper. I pressed my hands into his skin as I felt my mind slipping again.
“Happy Birthday Alyssa. You my dear are a syphon. So Syph, you just syphered my powers and used them on me.”
“I don’t know what you’re saying. What does it mean?”
“I don’t know. But it was sexy as hell to meet my match.” His eyes sparkled.
I blinked several times and ran my fingers over his chest as his skin seemed to get hotter.
“You’re hot.”
“I know, so are you.” He winked at me and the darkness took me again as I fainted.
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