Page 207 of Vameer

I hold my glowing palms out in front of me and look at Nix. “Help.”

She busts out laughing.

“Nix!”

“Sorry!” She keeps laughing as she stands. “The look on your face…”

“Yeah, hilarious. Help me put this out!”

Unconcerned, she steps closer and slaps at my smoking shirt.

It goes out, but we both look at my hands. Which are still glowing and have a lot of heat rolling off them.

“Pool?” Nix shrugs.

I nod. “Good idea.”

“And maybe don’t touch anything on the way.”

I roll my eyes. “No shit.” Then I look down at my shirt. “We really need to find Haruto. I think I need some of that fireproof clothing too.”

Nix snorts. “No shit.”

Keeping my hands away from my body, I can’t help my smile as I follow Nix out of the house.

I like having a sister.

Chapter 120

A Volunteer

Ihold the thin cylindrical object over the center console between us. “Don’t accidentally jab yourself with this.”

“No shit.” Jones huffs out a breath as he takes the device. “How do we know it’ll actually work and won’t just kill them?”

I lift a shoulder. “I mean, either way they’ll be incapacitated, so who cares?”

“And if it doesn’t work? Didn’t the lab say this was still in trials?”

“The lab also said it’s worked in under two seconds every time. And they filled each of these bad boys with enough paralytic to freeze an elephant.”

“Yeah, yeah.” Jones tucks the cylinder up his sleeve. “If I get bit and need a damn rabies shot after this, you’re holding my hand.”

I snort. “Uh-huh.”

“I’m the one going first,” he complains.

“Because I’m the one they’re gonna be looking at.”

My phone rings.

“Showtime.” I wiggle my eyebrows at Jones, then answer the call.

Ten seconds later, I hang up and slide my phone into my pocket. “They’re six cars back. Red sedan. But since we don’t know how good their hearing might be, we’ll talk to every car. Set the stage.”

“Whatever you say.” Jones pulls his hat onto his head.

I leave the car running as I open my door and climb out into the night.