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Rob snatched his arm back. “They won’t eat you. ”
Danny taunted him. “Don’t be such a nancy boy, Tobe. ”
“There has been a wrong,” Yas intoned again. Suddenly he was pure rage, unhinged, his madness glimmering until his eyes glowed red with it. This was Draug Yasuo.
The whole scene was disintegrating rapidly. My gaze skittered right and left, searching for a plan.
“Looking for someone?” Danny’s voice was cool and amused in a way that scared me more than any Draug.
Crap. The attention was back on me.
“Because there’s nobody here but us,” Rob said with a smile.
“No vamp to come and save you,” Danny said.
Rob stepped closer. “Good times. ”
“Get her,” Yas growled.
Danny loomed over me. “You think you’re better than us. ”
“You’re even too good for the island vamps,” Rob said, in an obvious reference to Carden. “Where’d you find that skirt-wearing bastard anyway?”
I stood tall, deflecting the pain, dredging some dignity from down deep. “That bastard is a Vampire, hundreds of years old. ”
Toby had wandered closer to the Draug pen, looking uneasy. “Hey, guys, these things are really freaking out. ”
Rob ignored him and held my gaze. “Then where’s the old bastard now?”
“Where are any of her little friends?” Danny asked. “Oh, right. She has none. ”
“None are left,” Yasuo declared in that eerie atonal voice. His eyes were really glowing now.
Ignoring Yasuo, I tried to sound braver than I felt and said determinedly, “Carden will be back. ” Because he would, right? Carden would need to return sometime.
Danny glanced right and left, then gave me a stupid grin and a shrug. “I don’t see him. ”
“Guys, seriously. These Draug things are starting to lose it. ” That was Toby. At least one of these morons had a lick of sense. I imagined once the beasts were riled up, smell of fear or not, there’d be no stopping them.
“Yeah, guys,” I interjected, “aren’t you scared of the Draug?”
Danny took a step closer. “We’re not scared of shit. Especially not you. ”
“Let’s just get out of here,” Toby said.
“You can. I’m staying. ” Rob leapt at me, with Danny right behind. The pitchfork flew from my hands. Rob snagged my arm and curled his fingers into me, hard enough that I felt it through my coat.
Rather than pulling away, I hurled myself toward him, the surprise earning me a moment’s advantage. My hand found his collar, and I slammed my other onto his shoulder, grabbing as much fabric as I could. “Is this still part of your homework assignment? Because I think you failed. ” I pulled and twisted, trying to choke him with the collar of his own shirt.
Unfortunately, the move gave him some ideas, because he went for my throat, too. “Not yet, I haven’t. ”
We grappled, me squirming to stop him from getting a firm grip. The collar of my catsuit was snug against my neck, but not so snug he couldn’t easily wriggle a few fingers down there if I gave him the chance.
Danny stood close, cheering him on, chanting for bl
ood. Toby mumbled some protest or other, but how successful could he be, really, when he wasn’t exactly doing anything to stop this? And through it all was Yasuo, snarling and muttering. Had he completely lost it already? I couldn’t tell if this was madness or pure, cold-blooded fury.
Rob had me restrained in a bear hug now. This close, his hot breath stank like stale onions. He tipped his head to scan my neck and shoulders in a lingering perusal that made my skin crawl. “I live for girls like you. ”
