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Jana dove over the flames and grabbed the vamp’s hand. “I’ve got him. Zane—stop Beth! Save yourself!”
She did have the vamp. She grabbed both his wrists and she started pulling him toward their new escape hole.
So Zane turned his attention back to the woman who was trying to burn him.
“No!” Beth shouted, and the fire flared higher, Hotter. “She’s not getting away!”
“Yes, she is.” But you’re not. He could concentrate just on her now. And he knew how to stop an Ignitor.
The flames circled them, caging him and Beth together. Her eyes were so red he couldn’t even see her pupils anymore. Red as fire. Her body trembled and drops of blood splattered from her nose.
“You started the fire at Night Watch, didn’t you?” he asked. Another Ignitor, it made sense now, it?—
“Yes, yes, I paid the assholes to torch the place.” Her voice rasped out. More blood flew from her nostrils, and she began to shake. “My plan, my call—and it would’ve worked fucking perfectly! The FBI was going to grab Jana, more of the paranormal freaks were going to burn—killing two fucking birds!”
His hands clenched. Before he ended this, he had to know, “Who is your boss? Who set this whole nightmare up?” Who was behind Perseus?
She laughed at him. Laughed with madness and power echoing in the wild sound. “I am Perseus. A human killing the monsters.”
He didn’t want a lesson in Greek myth. “Who’s your boss?” he roared over the flames. Who’d begun the chain of death? He had to know, he had to?—
“My game,” she told him with a sick smile. “What? Don’t you think a human could do it? Don’t you think a human could take down demons? Could send them to hell?”
“I think… Shit, it was hot. Sweat trickled down his face and back. “Humans can be damn dangerous.”
Another laugh. The fire leapt higher. “Yes, we can be.”
“Your fire is getting out of control.” Wait…just wait. He had to give Jana time to clear out with the others before he struck. Perseus was about to explode.
Implode.
Her eyes widened. “Scared, demon? Because you know I’m stronger than you? You can’t stop my fire!”
That circle of flames closed tighter.
“No, I’m not scared.” He shook his head. He didn’t hear Jana’s footsteps anymore. Couldn’t, not over the crackle and roar of the flames. “But you should be.” Only one way to stop an Ignitor’s fire. He sent his own fire and power plunging right at her. The blast hit Beth in the chest, and she stumbled back, screaming.
The fire went wild. Uncontrolled, for that brief moment, the circle broke and the flames licked back toward Beth, turning on her. Delicate human flesh.
Beth didn’t get up.
But a scream rose above the flames. Pain filled. Afraid. Female. Not coming from inside—outside.
Jana.
She’d gotten out, but what—who—had been waiting for her? Fuck, fuck!
Another scream broke the air. Then, “No, dammit, stop!”
Zane lunged for that hole in the wall as he shouted her name. The smoke and flames chased him as he burst outside.
He flew forward and sucked the fresh air into his lungs. “Jana!”
There. Jana was near the swamp. On the ground. With that bastard vampire over her. His teeth in her neck. She was pounding his back, kicking, shoving, while her right hand struggled to reach a gun that was just a few feet away.
But where was her fire? Why hadn’t she just burned the asshole to ash?
“Get the fuck away from her!” Zane thundered.
