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“Kilter,” Rayne shouted.
I managed to free one shoulder and punched my fist into the balls of the vampire cutting off my oxygen. He dropped, curling into a fetal position, screaming in agony.
Didn’t matter much. The others had me down and I was fading—fast.
I looked toward Rayne. She stood standing over the Long Neck.
No blood. No wounds. He was dead.
Fuck. She’d used her ability. She killed him.
Good girl.
She looked in my direction then to the Lilac.
A wave of dread shifted through me. I knew what she was going to do. Oh fuck, no. She couldn’t defeat a Lilac. She’d never get close enough to touch her and use her ability.
“Rayne, no,” I said, but my words came out a ragged whisper as I struggled to breathe.
She walked toward the Lilac. Christ. She had no idea what these bastards would do to her. Then the name hit me. Jasmine. Lilac Jasmine. Jesus Christ, she was the one who imprisoned Waleron for over sixty years.
“Let him go,” Rayne said. Then she pulled a gun—the gun I’d dropped—from behind her back and pointed it at the Lilac. “Tell your pets to let him go.”
My heart thumped harder and my chest cramped as I watched and could do fuck all.
“Are you going to shoot me, Rayne?” the Lilac replied. “I saved your life. Did you know that?” A vampire shifted to block my view of Rayne.
“Kilter saved my life. I was an object before him.”
Everything in my body stilled.
“You think a bullet will stop me?” Jasmine said. “You were always a pathetic, naïve girl, Rayne.”
I jerked as the gun went off.
The vampires hissed and two moved toward Rayne.
The gun went off again. I couldn’t see what she was shooting at, but I heard a body thump to the ground.
“Wait,” Jasmine ordered.
“Kill him and the next bullet goes through my head before any of your pets can get to me. Or let him go and I walk away with you and no one gets hurt.”
What?What the fuck was she doing?
The two vampires holding me down each grabbed an arm and yanked me to my feet. I struggled against their hold, but with the webs around my legs, I couldn’t move.
My head was forced back as a thin wire cut into my throat.
“Rayne, no,” Roarke yelled.
I could no longer speak, so I used my telepathy, hoping her shields were down enough for me to break through to her. “Babe, no. Don’t do this.”
Her eyes darted to me then back to the Lilac again. But I saw the trembling in her hand as she held the gun. A gun that was pointed at her own head. My stomach churned.
“If you kill yourself, then he dies,” Jasmine said.
Rayne glared. “If you want me alive, then let him go.”
