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That left the last of the guards and the Light Councilmembers. I’d have to figure them out quickly after taking care of the others.
Demons, Vampires, and the Witch howled.
“What’s going on?” Kinkaide came running from wherever he’d disappeared to, and Silvia looked completely baffled.
My power went to her. Nothing useful! I started undoing healings anyway. The woman flinched, but Kinkaide had caught on.
“You!”
I tried to move from his attack but was too slow. His hand slapped me, dazing me, and I fell. My head hit the brick floor, and I lost track of what was going on around me. I could see things, but my brain wasn’t computing anything. So, I closed my eyes and waited for things to settle in my head.
When my eyes opened again, I found they’d bound me and tied me to the other table.
“You couldn’t just do what was asked of you,” Kinkaide growled as he finished tying a knot on my ankle. “Instead, this is how you will spend the last minutes of your life.”
Silvia came into view. The injuries I’d caused her to have again were a black eye and other injuries from a beating. I had a feeling that the man before me was the cause of those injuries the first time around. He was insane.
“I’ll be right back. Silvia, do not touch them.” Kinkaide walked back into the stacks of books. Councilwoman Nash wouldn’t look at me, so I looked beyond her as best I could, raising my head from the table.
Bodies lay on the ground of the Vampires, Demons, and Witch whose injuries I’d unhealed. Still, a few guards remained standing. I relaxed into the table, upset I hadn’t tried that earlier, but would they have killed Jeff if I had?
Kinkaide came storming back to us too quickly for me to come up with even a hint of a plan after gathering my bearings. He tossed a large tome onto the table at my feet.
“I need blood. Give me the knife.” Kinkaide held out his hand to the woman he’d led into his trap.
“I was just going to take her blood,” Silvia said as she extended the knife to the man as he flipped to the page he needed.
“Hers isn’t the blood I need.”
Silvia’s eyes went wide with horror and shock as her partner buried the knife in her abdomen. My heart rate tripled as I lay back and stared at the ceiling. This crap was too crazy. The woman’s body fell to the floor, and Kinkaide started a chant in a language I didn’t understand. My eyes filled with tears that ran over, and I made peace with my imminent death. How I wished I could touch Jeff. Just one last time.
The crazy man moved to my side and wiped my tears away. “Do not fear. I will not be killing you. You and the boy will be my welcome home gift to the Mindolin.”
Yeah, because that wasn’t killing me.
A hiss escaped me as a stinging sensation went down my arm. Kinkaide moved away with my blood on his knife and began his chant once more.
“He’s going to kill us all! No one will survive. Not you, not me!” Kinkaide just spoke louder over my shouts. I thrashed at my bonds knowing he’d never listen to me. My feet couldn’t reach the book to kick it to the floor. I’d never felt so helpless, even when Jeff had tied me up to kiss me and I couldn’t free myself. This was so much worse. I’d known Jeff wouldn’t hurt me. Kinkaide was going to let me be eaten.
A dark circle appeared in the ceiling between Jeff and me. When Kinkaide’s chant was finished, the world rumbled and rocked before a man fell out of the hole.
I blinked, unable to process this. He looked human, normal. He looked like a man you’d find on the street, ahotman you’d find on the street.
He looked down at me, and I realized that his eyes were the only nonhuman thing about him. They were all black like a Demon’s but without the red pupil. They were creepy. I wanted him to stop looking at me with that creepy smile, but I couldn’t talk, the fear was so bad.
“Hello, dear Tessa.” His hand ran along my cheek, and I turned my face as much as I could to get away from him. He only followed my face to keep contact with me. “Ah, you do smell wonderful. However, you have bonded with the boy, and I wanted your blood to be pure.”
“I’m sorry, Sir. I wasn’t aware.”
The Mindolin and I both looked to where Kinkaide was kneeling on the floor. It was hard to tell the Mindolin’s emotions from the black eyes, but I imagined he’d be rolling his eyes about now with how concerned he was with his man.
“Get up, fool.”
“Y...Yes, sir.”
Kinkaide stood, and I shrieked when the Mindolin moved fast, grabbed hold of Kinkaide’s neck, and dug his teeth into the other side. The remaining races in the room raced to the door, but it refused to open as their boss was dropped to the floor, drained by the Mindolin.
“Now, where do you all think you’re going?” The Mindolin sounded put out. The poor thing.
