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“See, told you I had back-up,” I told White as I punched against the side of her face hard enough to make her see stars.
Shadows swarmed her pinning her in place as Redmond grabbed her, almost giving her the same treatment as Stryker.
“Wait!” I exclaimed. “I need to question her first. Need to know if this goes even higher up.”
Redmond shrugged and instead punched her hard enough to knock her out. I threw him a pair of the handcuffs I’d packed. “Magically reinforced,” I said. “Can’t do anything with these babies on.”
He cracked a smile. “Handy. Go to your sister, I got this.”
Baring his teeth, he snarled at the male agent while I scrambled to my feet. After a last glance at them – the harpy was still out of it – I ran to my sister.
Her skin was a sickly green-white color, and she was sweating. Moaning she turned her head toward me. “Quinn?”
“I’m here.” Her eyes rolled back in her head even as I shook her. “Becca? Becca!”
Shit. As fast as I could I started pulling the tubes from her arms.
“What kind of sicko teams up with a corpse?” fire-dude sneered behind me. “Are you fucking him?”
“Shut up!” I snarled at the same time as Redmond said: “She hasn’t had the pleasure yet, no.”
“Becca!”
Agent Thea White started to laugh. “You’re too late. Her transformation has already begun and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Chapter Seven
“What do you mean, it’s too late? It can’t be too late!” Frantic I shook my sister even as her bloodshot eyes rolled back in her head. “Stop this!”
I turned to Agent White, rage boiling in me. My skin felt too tight, too hot, my power demanding to be unleashed on the woman who stared at me uncowed.
“Your pretty boy over here killed the only person capable of stopping this,” she jerked her head towards Redmond. Dark shadows swirled around her head.
Lies.
My shadows lashed forward, coiling around her throat. “You’re lying. You know how to stop this. Don’t fuck with me, old woman, I know when you’re lying.”
White laughed. “The only way to stop the transformation is to kill your sister.”
“You’re lying again, bitch,” I snarled, charging forward when my sister gasped for air. Redmond was in front of me the next instant, blocking my path to Agent White. Strong hands grasping my shoulders.
“If you kill her, you won’t get any answers.”
“Let go of me,” I hissed. Magic wrapped itself around Redmond, tentacles of shadow flinging him away from me. He hit a wall. Dazed he sat up, but by then I was on Agent White.
“Tell me how to save her!” I had her on the ground, my hands curled into her shirt like talons. “Tell me.”
“You can’t save her,” she laughed, even as I screamed and shook her. Her head hit the ground, but the laughter didn’t stop.
“Don’t say that!” My voice cracked.
Only when Redmond pulled me off her, I noticed that my hands were stained red. Crimson liquid and other things were on the ground below White’s head. She wasn’t laughing now. In fact, she’d never laugh again.
I knew I should have felt horrible about what I’d done. Even after the vile things Agent White had done, she was still human. Hunters weren’t supposed to kill humans, even witches. We kill vampires. Everything else gets a trial and jury. Then gets locked away.
Bile rose in the back of my throat the next instant.
I shouldn’t have killed her. I should have made her tell me how to save my sister by any means necessary, and then I should have taken her in. There were protocols in place for this sort of thing. She should have gone to jail.
