Kai summoned his trident and threw it at the laughing wolf before any of them had time to react. The prongs struck the wolf in the groin. He uttered a horrible, high-pitched scream. Fig went flying, landing in the pool with a splash.
My heart leaped into my throat, but to my surprise, Fig bopped back up and began swimming merrily in circles, snorting with joy.
“Pigs are great little swimmers,” Kai reassured me before kissing me hard to share his magic. “My magic will protect him from the water’s effects. Now dive to the bottom while I deal with these fuckers.”
I took a deep breath, just in case the magic failed, and swam below the surface. Muffled yells and screams reached me as I relaxed at the bottom of the pool, and a few minutes later, Kai joined me.
“They’re gone.”
“Gone as in dead?”
“No, sadly. But I doubt they’ll come back here for a while.”He pulled me back up to the surface, where Fig swam happily in circles. While the wolves had, indeed, gone, there was blood everywhere, along with a few chunks of flesh.
My eyes widened in shock.
Kai had always been my sweet, shy mate, but perhaps I’d underestimated the lengths he’d go to protect me.
48
Alaric
The incubus bounced on his toes as we stood in the shadows outside the shifter dorm. Thick clouds hid the moon, making it a perfect night for hunting. And after overhearing the vile shit aimed at my witch earlier, I was in the mood to fuck up some wolves.
“So I’ll lure them out, vampy plays fetch, and then Fritz nails them with a lightning bolt, yeah?”
I rolled my eyes. “We need to be careful. It has to look like an accident, not straight-up murder.”
The incubus tutted. “Do I look like an amateur? Purrleeease. I’ve been offing these assholes for weeks now. The only reason I invited you along for the ride is that vampy needs the exercise, and you, vanilla popsicle, could do with loosening the fuck up.”
Rasmus gazed into the forest, ignoring the incubus’s nonsense as usual. He never took offense at the often outrageous shit Zane came up with, which was lucky, as I reckoned the vampire prince could tear out our throats before we’d even blinked.
No wonder my father wasn’t mourning the lost vampires.
I smirked to myself as I imagined his horror if he discovered Rasmus Dvorak had survived.
“How do you plan to lure out the two shifters?” Jagger and Cole were living on borrowed time. I wondered if they had any clue death was coming for them.
“Easy.” Zane shifted before my eyes, transforming from a muscular guy into a buxom female with huge tits and very little clothing. He winked at me.
Honestly, seeing him shapeshift creeped me out big time.
“Are you sure the wolves will fall for this illusion?” Rasmus asked. “Won’t they wonder who this female is and why she’s so keen to lure them outside?”
Zane tossed his blonde hair over his shoulder and giggled. Hearing a sweet, feminine voice and knowing it was actually the incubus made me shudder.
“Jagger’s been talking to Clarissa on Plenty of Shifters. He thinks she’s up for anything.” Zane pulled his phone from a pocket in the tiny pair of denim shorts he wore and swiped open a chat window.
MonsterDick69: Baby, I can’t wait to fuck you with my huuuuuge dick, can you take it all?
Clarissa: Soooo horny for you right now, meet me outside the dorm in 10, bring your friend Cole. I can do you both xxx
“Fuck me. Those dudes are desperate.”
“Is this how males behave these days?” The vampire frowned in confusion. “Do females not expect dinner first?”
Zane/Clarissa patted the vampire and smirked. “Not this female. Now watch and learn.”
The incubus shimmied his ample hips, adjusted his breasts, and headed over to the shifter dorm entrance. There were mage guardspatrolling across the campus, but I’d cast an invisibility spell to hide us. If the guards headed this way, they wouldn’t see us, so all Zane needed to do was lure the shifters into the forest while the guards were out of sight.
