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Tony’s eyes widened. Ah, so the dick hadn’t ever come across a Born? Then he didn’t know what hell looked like. “You can’t kill Borns the way you can most vampires,” Simon warned. No, they were so much harder to slay. He’d once heard of a Born who’d survived a stake to the heart and a partial beheading.
Their bodies were tougher. They healed ten times faster than the Taken. When you were changed into a vampire, you brought some of your human weaknesses with you.
But when you were Born a vampire…
There was no weakness for you. Not once the powers kicked in and the bloodlust began.
“Who are you?” Tony demanded again.
“Ease up, Tony. Simon’s not the bad guy here.” She unfolded her arms. “He knows what I’m up against. He can help me.”
“And I can’t?”
“No.”
Tony flinched.
“You’re a cop. You protect innocents.” She shook her head. “But your job isn’t to kill vampires.”
“Some days it is,” he fired back.
Simon’s brows shot up. So the cop had some bite, did he?
“I know things look bad right now,” Dee ventured.
“You ran, Dee. Innocent people don’t run.”
Okay, his fault. Simon rolled his shoulders. “I didn’t give Dee much choice. When I hauled her out of that pit, she was barely conscious. Sirens were wailing—I just couldn’t risk her.”
“You couldn’t, huh?”
“No.” Nothing more to say on that. “The woman on the floor was dead. Dee wasn’t. My priority was getting her to safety.”
“Yeah, cause getting in her pants had nothing to do with it, right?”
Fuck him. Simon attacked. In a second’s time, he had the cop pinned to the wall as his fist twisted the front of Tony’s shirt. “Don’t talk about Dee like that.” Ever.
A tap on the back of his shoulder. “Ease up,” Dee murmured. “Tony just turns into an ass when he’s worried.”
“He needs to watch that tendency. It’ll get him into trouble soon.” He held the cop’s stare. “Real soon.” Simon unknotted his fingers.
“Christ, Dee, where’d you find him?” Tony muttered, straightening his shirt.
“In an alley, one littered with bullets.” She pushed in between the two of them. “Same place I found you a few years back.”
A grunt, then Tony’s lips started to curl, just a bit.
“Tony, we were attacked right before dawn. Some guys in ski masks found us at Simon’s house. They shot up the place.” Her hand lifted to her shoulder. To the wound Simon had all but forgotten when he’d had her in bed. “We were lucky to get out alive.”
“Hell.”
“Yeah, that’s where we are.” She swallowed, and Simon heard the soft click. “But I’ll be damned if I stay there. I’m not going to keep hiding out, waiting for the vamps to strike. We needed to rest. We needed to recover—done that.”
Simon knew where this was going. Knew, and didn’t like it.
“Now it’s time to hunt these bastards,” she said. “Because I really don’t like it when jerkoffs try to kill me, especially when I’m already down.”
“Can’t say I like it much, either,” Simon added.
