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Too dangerous, she shouldn’t?—
She began to chant, low but fast, breaking the spell that had been weaved on the cuffs.
“My spell,” she gasped as her shoulders sagged and her face paled and more shame flared in her eyes.
Shit. They’d forced her to help keep the vamp trapped. Bastards. If this place weren’t already burning to hell and back…Growling, he broke the disenchanted manacles, snapping the locks and freeing the vamp.
The vampire fell forward and slammed into Zane. Zane caught him, grunting at the impact. That vamp’s teeth were way too close to his throat. There was only one vamp in the world he’d bleed for, and Dee wasn’t anywhere near them. “Watch it,” he ordered, but the vamp just slumped harder against him.
He looked down. The vamp’s eyes were closed. The guy was dead to the world—well, again.
Zane hefted him up and draped the vamp over his shoulder. “We’ve got to get out of here, we’ve got to?—”
“You’re not going anywhere.”
Shit. He knew that they’d taken too long. He turned around and found Beth in the doorway. Flames flickered behind her. Bright orange and red flames.
Beth’s red stare—the stare of an Ignitor charged up and burning hot—tracked across the room. Her hungry stare landed briefly on them all, as if marking them. Maybe she was. Aim and fire. “None of you are leaving.” A brief smile. “Not alive, anyway.”
Zane dropped the vamp to the floor and stalked forward. The vamp’s groan rumbled in his ears, blending with the crackle of the flames. “Cat, get them all out.” He’d take the Perseus agent on.
“How?” Catalina’s scream. “There’s only one door, and she’s?—”
Blocking it with a wall of flames. Yeah, he saw that.
“The walls are reinforced with steel. Your witch is too weak to break out.” Beth came closer. Those flames danced right along with her. “They’re all too weak to do anything but die.”
They might be. He wasn’t. Zane sucked in a deep breath and let his own power swell. Then, spinning away from Beth, he blasted a long, hard wave of energy at the far wall. The wall exploded and shot outward with a scream of metal. “Go!” Zane roared.
The fire caught him then. A hot lick that raced up his legs and back. Instantly, he pushed down the flames but, dammit, that had hurt.
Beth’s laughter filled his ears. “Bad mistake. You just traded your life for theirs.”
Because he’d given the bitch the perfect moment to strike. Shit. And he still had to focus his power, use his energy to protect the others, because she’d let the fire loose and it was racing for Catalina. And Catalina—she stood frozen, staring at the flames with eyes too wide, terrified, as?—
Jana jumped through the hole he’d knocked into the wall. “Zane!”
No, shit, no! “Get out!”
More laughter. “Oh, no, she’s just the one I was hoping to burn. Payback’s coming,” Beth promised with glee.
Jana’s gaze widened.
The flames were spreading too fast. Eating the floor, the walls…
And burning like a bitch at his back.
Hold it. Control it. He couldn’t focus his attack on Beth. Not with the fire so close to the others. He pushed against the fire, but the flames kept flaring higher. Her fire’s stronger than?—
Jana ran for Catalina. She grabbed the witch’s arm and yanked her. “Move!”
Catalina shook her head and finally seemed to snap back to reality. She turned and hauled ass, dragging her shifter with her.
Yes.
“The man on the floor—get him!” Catalina yelled to Jana.
Um, not a man, not really?—
