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“This male tried to attack and rape our female,” he said, nodding at the sobbing attacker and raising his voice to be heard over his howling. “My brother and I punished him—which is our right under the ruling of the World Council,” he added. “Now we’re taking our female and leaving.”
“You what?” The waitress still looked confused and other people from the club were starting to gather outside the door as well. Lili was distantly afraid that at any minute they might grab her and drag her away.
Suddenly Light and Dark were on either side of her, their long arms around her shoulders and waist.
“Excuse us,” Light said firmly, pushing through the crowd with one long arm.
Dark was more blunt.
“Get out of the fucking way,” he growled, elbowing people aside. “And keep the fuck away from our female!”
Before she knew it, Lili was outside the jazz club and out on the street with the two big Kindred. As soon as they found a clear space, Light knelt before her and looked at her anxiously.
“Lilibet, are you well?” he asked her. “Tell us how we can help you.”
Lili opened her mouth and tried again to speak, but nothing came out. Shock, she was definitely in shock.
Light tried to take her hands in his, but the motion hurt her wounded wrist. She gave a little gasp of pain and jerked away, clutching her wrist even more tightly to her chest.
“He hurt her!” Dark’s eyes were glowing red again. “I’m gonna go back in there and kill that fucker! He doesn’t deserve to live!”
“No time, Brother—look.” Light nodded down the street where flashing blue and red lights could be seen and the faint whoop of a siren could be heard.
“Fucking human authorities!” Dark growled. “I’ll fuck them up, too!”
“No—no!” Light looked really worried now. He left Lili and rose to grab his twin by the shoulders. “Look at me—look at me! Do not let The Fury take you!” He shook Dark briefly. “Hold it together, Brother. Here…”
And reaching around to the back of his brother’s neck, he did something—maybe twisted a tiny knob. It was hard to tell, but Lili thought that was what he did.
At once the look of rage fell off the Dark Twin’s face and his eyes lost their red glow.
“Thank you, Brother—I am well,” he rumbled, sounding oddly robotic to Lili. “What do we need to do?”
“Get the Seven Hells out of here,” Light said. He turned to Lili. “You have to come with us, Lilibet. I need to see to that arm.”
Lili wasn’t sure what to say. She wanted to point out that she couldn’t go with them—she still had a conference to attend tomorrow and besides, all her things were in her hotel room.
But when she opened her mouth to protest, again no words came out. Also, everything was beginning to look blurry around the edges. She took a step and wobbled. Her high heels suddenly felt as tall as stilts and her legs were now made of rubber.
“Watch out!” Light exclaimed and then he was swinging her up into his arms.
“What happened to her? Is she all right?” Dark asked. He didn’t sound as robotic as he had a moment ago—in fact, his face looked worried, Lili thought woozily.
And then the blurriness got worse and everything turned gray. A moment later, still clutching her hurt wrist to her chest, she fainted.
6
LIGHT
“Is she all right?” Dark asked again and Light thought that he sounded genuinely worried. Which shouldn’t be possible, considering the fact that he’d twisted his twin’s emotion damper all the way up to its highest setting. Was something wrong with the damper or was Dark having such strong feelings for the little Elite that it couldn’t stop the emotion from flowing?
Either way, they didn’t have time to worry about it right now. The human authorities would be there any minute and though The World Council had ruled that Kindred warriors were within their rights to hurt or kill any attacker who was menacing their female, Light still didn’t want to be there when the police showed up.
For one thing, he was worried that they would have trouble proving Lili was their female, since they had only just met her that night. And for another, he was sure that—justified or not—carving off the human male’s genitals and then incinerating them was going to cause a problem that the human press would probably jump on.
Commander Sylvan had explained to him and Dark that all humans carried communications devices called “cell phones” which they were constantly using to record notable events around them. If the human server who had found them in the bathrooms saw what Dark had done to Lilibet’s attacker and then took pictures and posted them to the human Internet, there was sure to be a media frenzy.
No, what they needed to do was get Lilibet back to their shuttle and then get all three of them to the Mother Ship, he decided. In addition to being a scout during their many missions on the Dark Kindred home world, Light was also trained as a medic, while Dark was a pilot. They needed to get out of here and treat Lili’s wounds—away from the human crowd.
