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The boy’s answering smile fled as he looked around the room. “You didn’t get all of them. There were three more of those creatures before, and they said they’d be back.”
“Bastards,” Cat muttered under her breath. Then, to the ghost, she said, “I’ll get them. Don’t worry. It’s my job.”
The ghost gave her a sweet smile that blurred as his body started to fade away. Within moments, nothing was left of him.
“Is he gone?” Cat asked in a quiet voice.
She didn’t mean from her sight. She meant the literal way.
“I expect so. He accomplished what he wanted, so now he’s moved on. Some stubborn folks manage to do one last thing.”
And this boy had been more than stubborn. He’d been selfless, too. Most newly-dead ghosts were so horrified by their own demise that they couldn’t focus on anything else. This boy had moved past thatandmanaged to save his girl. If Bones had been wearing a hat, he’d have taken it off to the young lad.
Cat went to the doorway where she’d left her dress. The blonde woman had almost fallen on it, and a few stray streaks from the blonde’s punctured heart stained the lavender dress.
“Smart to remove it,” Bones commented. “That frock’s snug fit would have cost you fluidity, and taking it off would have been quite distracting to the vampires in here.”
She gave him a look as she shimmied into the dress. “I do remember how to hunt, you know.”
He was about to respond when a flash of dark lines on her hip caught his eye. At once, Ian’s words rang in his head.Seeing your distinctive cross-bones symbol on her hip is what distracted me enough for her to plug a silver stake in my heart…
Bones was across the room and touching her hip before Cat could shout “Stop!”
Too late. Bones traced the lines in Cat’s tattoo. Every notch and curve was identical to the one he had on his upper arm. She’d memorized his cross-bones so thoroughly that a picture couldn’t have been more accurate. His emotions fired like the finale of a fireworks show.
“Stop touching me,” Cat said in a hoarse voice.
“You don’t want me to,” Bones whispered. “I see it in your eyes, and your scent betrays you.”
Yearning and frustration battled in her gaze, and then, hardness covered them both. “We have vampires to kill.”
Bones withdrew his hand. Yes, they did.
Cat finished pulling up her dress and walked out the door.
13
Bones checked on the three survivors. Their pulses were steady, but they’d lost so much blood that they were still unconscious. Best thing, really. Now, they wouldn’t see the slaughter around them and run screaming into the nightclub to get the human authorities involved. That would scare the vampires off, and Cat was right. They needed killing.
“What are you doing?” Bones asked as Cat came back into the room with the dead blond in her arms.
“Piling Miss Pink Toenails in here with the rest of them,” she replied, dropping the blonde’s body further inside the room. “Then, I’m going to wait in the hall until their friends come back, and kill the hell out of them.”
This plan needed improving. “No, you’re going to wash that blood off your hands and arms. Then, we’re going to dance.”
She stared at him. “The hell we are!”
“You’re aprofessionalkiller, aren’t you?” Bones mocked. “You can’t hover around that hallway with blood spattered on you and expect to look inconspicuous. But, if you’re dancing with me, then no one will see the blood, and we’ll sneak up behind the vamps and kill them when they return to this room.”
Her lips thinned as his logic left her nowhere to run.
Bones only smiled. “Best hurry. They might return soon.”
Bones took off his jacket and tie while Cat was in the loo. Then, he opened his white shirt at the neck and rolled up his sleeves to just below his elbows. Now, he only looked a little overdressed instead of being noticeably formal for a nightclub.
Cat did a good job washing off. When she was done, only the stains on her dress and its scent remained. She put less effort in the second part of their plan, holding herself stiffly and keeping a broad distance between them on the dance floor.
“Really, Kitten?” Bones said as he pulled her closer. “I know you can do better than this.”
