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“Happening,” Kade corrects. “Hunters. Too fucking many of them. You need to get here. Now. I just sent you our location. It's a feeder spot about twenty minutes from the hotel. Fuck! Got to go! Hurry up!”
The call ends, and I slam my foot down on the gas, taking a sharp right turn. Calla grabs the handle above her door, her breathing speeding up, though she stays silent. I open Kade's message and tap his location, projecting it onto the GPS screen. Fuck, we're still ten minutes away. I press the gas even harder, speeding down the street and tapping my thumb against the wheel to remind myself not to grip it hard enough to rip the leather.
I don't know what we're showing up to, how many hunters are there, or if anybody's injured, but knowing my family is in danger has me seeing red. I turn the car down the alley beside the building and I can already hear the fighting going on inside. Several of the windows are smashed, glass littering the sidewalk, though pedestrians don't seem too concerned. They cross the street to avoid the broken glass without paying much attention to what's going on inside. I throw the car into park and turn to Calla.
“Don’t,” she says before I can tell her to stay in the car.
I grit my teeth, rolling my eyes. “Don't die,” I growl at her and get out of the car, hearing her follow.
Calla runs next to me, and our shoes crunch over broken glass when we round the corner from the alley and walk through what used to be the front door of the feeding facility.
I grab Calla’s wrist, pulling her back against my chest just as a hunter flies through the air in front of us, smacking against the wall with a grunt, then falls to the tile floor, his eyes rolled into the back of his head.
“Oh my god,” she whispers in horror.
“Welcome to the party!” Lex shouts from across the room, holding a middle-aged hunter by the throat, her eyes wide and filled with a twisted mix of hatred and fear. He grins and moves at inhuman speed, sinking his fangs into her neck. She screams in pain, her face going white as a sheet before she passes out, going limp against Lex. He scowls, pulling back and dropping her body to the floor just as another hunter comes at him, a dagger in each hand. The two struggle, and the hunter manages to drag his dagger across Lex’s chest. He hisses in pain, snarling with his fangs bared and still stained red with the other hunter’s blood.
The white tile floor is littered with bodies, both human—hunters and feeders alike—and vampires. The smell of blood is strong in the air, and there’s enough of it to make even my gums throb.
A vampire speeds toward us—Calla specifically—and I step in front of her. “Mine,” I growl with a sharp glare, fully expecting a snide remark or a punch in the shoulder from Calla, but she remains silent. Smart girl.
The vampire backs off immediately, grabbing a hunter off another vampire seconds before she would’ve ended up with a dagger in her heart.
With a quick scan, I take inventory. There are at least a dozen vampires including my guys, but I count thirty hunters still fighting.
Kade moves through the crowd and snaps the neck of a hunter trying to sneak up on Gabriel.
Make that twenty-nine hunters.
All of the feeders are either dead, passed out from fear, or fled before Calla and I arrived.
“Keep your back to the wall,” I bark at her over my shoulder. “Don’t let anyone get behind you—hunter or vampire. Trust no one but us.”
Her jaw is set tight as she nods, retrieving the dagger from her thigh.
I don’t want to leave her side, but this fight will be a lot easier if I actually participate. I’ve trained our girl well; Calla will defend herself as needed.
Holding her gaze a moment longer, I flash her a grin. Her eyes widen in surprise, and I take off across the room, gutting three hunters of their entrails in my wake. Hot blood sprays over my face and clothes. I taste it on my lips, and it has the monster in me roaring.
Three hunters have managed to corner Lex while Kade is fighting back-to-back with Gabriel. I’m about to intervene when at least four hunters close in on me, grabbing at my arms. I snarl viciously, throwing them off, but not fast enough.
Lex screams, and my head whips toward the sound to see his silver eyes widen and filled with shock and agony. I look down and find a dagger sticking out of his chest.
“No,” Kade hollers, grabbing the hunter closest to him, and tears through the flesh of her throat, spitting it at the hunter trying to take on Gabriel. He retches, and in the seconds he’s distracted, Gabriel snaps his neck.
The two of them rush toward Lex, taking out several hunters on their way. My vision is blocked by three more hunters, and I very quickly lose what little patience I’d been grasping. I smash two heads together, reveling in thecracktheir skulls make on impact. They drop to the floor as another vampire joins me in the fight against the others.
We take half a dozen of them out within minutes. It would’ve been faster, but I couldn’t stop looking over to where Kade, Gabriel, and Calla are standing around Lex.
I whirl around as a hunter tries to sneak past, and she freezes, her eyes going wide. She can’t be older than twenty. Her clothes are free of blood and the dagger in her shaky hand is clean—she likely hasn’t fought a vampire here.
My lips pull back, and I bare my fangs at her. When her eyes shimmer with tears and her chin starts quivering, I shake my head. “Go,” I growl in a menacing voice.
Shock fills her features for a second before she turns and runs, dropping her dagger in her haste to get away.
With the other vampires in the room fighting their way through the rest of the hunters, I manage to make my way over to Lex and the others.
“Talk to me,” I say, shoving my bloodstained hair out of my face.
