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She shook her head. "No, no… smell if you want."
I motioned for her to stay her distance. "You know better than that. You're covered with blood and I'm in hunting mode. Don't come near me." I paused. She needed attention, and fast, but we'd have to get her back to the others. I couldn't chance staying with her while Roz went to get help, and I didn't want to chance leaving him here with her unprotected, just in case the newborns took it into their heads to return.
"Roz, you carry her back into the main morgue."
"Do you think we should move her?" He handed the stakes to me and caught her up in his arms.
At the flicker in his eyes when she pressed against him, I shook my head. "Don't get any ideas, wise guy. She's hurt bad."
With a sly grin, he shrugged. "A demon can fantasize, can't he?"
Sharah gasped. "Demon?"
"Hold still or I might accidentally drop you," he said gruffly. "I'm an incubus. Get over it. We're facing far greater dangers than I will ever pose to you, my elfin lady."
She glanced into his face, then nodded and leaned against his shoulder as he swung out of the room and I followed. I stopped to close the fire exit. There wasn't much I could do to brace it shut, but we didn't need to leave an open invitation to anybody who might be passing by, be they vamp or human or Fae.
We rejoined the others in the main morgue, where we found Delilah and Wade had made it back. Delilah was looking pissed out of her mind.
"That didn't take you long. Have any trouble with Bob?" I asked.
Delilah nodded. "Yeah. Halfway there he managed to get loose from his ropes. We had to stake him or we would have been toast."
"Damn it—" I started to say, but Wade raised his hand.
"There was no other choice. Chalk it up to bad luck, or whatever you like, but he's gone. Let's focus on the here and now."
I grumbled but knew he was right. There was nothing we could do now, and Delilah was a good fighter. She wouldn't stake our potential informant unless the danger had been all too real.
Delilah took one look at Sharah as Roz carried her into the room before she raced over to help him, Chase right on her heels.
"Upstairs," he said. "We have a medic station. Follow me."
"Be careful. We don't know if they rampaged the joint before they escaped. They might have circled round and come in topside." I wouldn't put anything past Dredge and his children, especially if it was sneaky, underhanded, or designed to inflict as much pain as possible.
Wade and Trillian guarded the rear while Roz and I led the way. We stopped by the elevator doors, which were next to the stairwell.
"I don't want to chance the elevators," I said. "If there are a bunch of vamps up there, we don't want to be trapped in a little metal box."
Chase eyed the stairs. "That means we have to carry Sharah up three flights and she's pretty badly hurt."
I stepped back. "I could carry her with no problem, except…" I paused, and Delilah immediately understood.
"She's bleeding. Let me do it." Delilah was stronger than Chase.
Not one to get in a snit about it, he immediately acquiesced. "Take her. You can carry her easier and quicker than I can."
Delilah swept Sharah into her arms and, with Roz and me at the helm, began the climb. Chase kept pace right beside her, helping to steady or balance her when she needed it.
At the top of the stairs, I peered through the windows gracing the double doors that led into the main room. While Chase worked out of an office at police headquarters, he also had an office here and divided his time between the two stations.
"Chase, do you know that guy at the desk?" I asked, motioning for him to edge up the steps and peek through the window.
Chase nodded. "Yeah. That's Yugi. He's an empath from Sweden."
"Human?" I asked.
"An FBH just like me," he said. "Do you sense something wrong?"
