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“I still have to get that book, Rush,” I hissed at him, trying to orient myself with where Collette’s memory had pinpointed their hiding place.
“We can come back for it,” he growled, trying to yank me in the opposite direction of where I thought we needed to go to find it.
“Glamor yourself and hide - I’m faster than the gobbelins,” I insisted. Hell, I might even be able to carry him on my back and still outrun them.
Rush growled a low protest in his throat, but I shot him a look over my shoulder before dropping all pretense at politeness. Pivoting and wrenching my arm from his grip, I poured on my vampire speed and raced back past a few of the gobbelins.
Fucking hell, they were every bit as fast as the average vampire.
Good thing I’d never been average.
My lungs were straining, but I grinned as I edged ahead of them, tearing through the labyrinth. Swallowing down a whoop of joy, I finally reached the cave where Collette and Janus had stashed their book. Scrabbling it out from under the rocks, I jumped to my feet, realizing I’d just barely beat the gobbelins here.
“It’s the princess,” a thick-muscled female shouted, and my stomach flipped as I wondered if she was the same one who had killed me before.
Five more gobbelins piled through the passage after her, crowding the air with their growls and snorts, but at least I wasn’t cornered.
Not bothering to try and fight them this time, I took off running again, praying to the Goddess that I didn’t get lost.
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
KANA
I knew Fauna was close, but I had no idea where the entrance was, or what I’d have to crawl through to get there.
And now that I couldn’t backtrack without running straight into the gobbelins, I had no idea how to get back to Rush. I did not like running - it simply wasn’t my style.
But I certainly had limits, and I’d smacked hard against them the last time I’d tried to fight so many gobbelins at once.
Even a vampire could only handle so much.
Kas, I began to yell in my mind, not even caring if the ice magic drew the gobbelins to me. They already had my scent, and I could use some backup. I yelled for Rush in my mind too, trying to locate his fae energy in the craziness of running for my life.
I almost felt like crying in relief when I felt the sort of golden glow of Rush’s energy nearby, even though he didn’t answer my icy calls. Rounding a corner with only slightly less speed, I gasped his name when I spotted him backed against a wall, battling a lone gobbelin.
Dropping the book, I dashed toward them, cracking my whip against the gobbelin’s back just as it clubbed Rush in the ribs. The creature howled as red lines formed on its back, and Rush stumbled to the side.
