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“I couldn’t wake up,” she said.
“Uma,” Dagger said, racing in behind her in his human form. He was bloodied and bruised, just like we all were.
“You got ‘em all?” I asked Dagger.
Dagger nodded. “Yeah, I think it’s over. The magic is fading.”
“I’m so sorry,” Uma said, and her voice trembled. “Something kept me under, and I just couldn’t wake up, no matter what I did. Not until now. Oh shit, I thought it was too late.” She sank to her knees at Kinley’s door and looked around.
“What were those things?” Dagger asked.
Uma frowned, pulling herself together, and walked to the dark creature that lay in the middle of the room, close to the bed.
She looked it over.
“It reeks of dark magic.”
“I tasted it, too,” I confirmed.
“Yeah, me too,” Dagger said, nodding. “Tastes like shit.”
I nodded.
“It’s a vampire,” Uma said.
“What?!” Kinley cried out.
“But notjusta vampire. It looks like a hybrid or something. A vampire demon combo. A monster.” She sighed and straightened. “This interbreeding causes more trouble than it does good.”
“Who would want to fuck one of those?” Dagger asked with a scrunched nose. He glanced at Kinley. “I mean… sorry.”
Kinley only shook her head.
“I’ll be back,” Uma said. “I’m going to check the perimeter.”
“I’ll come with you,” Dagger said. He looked at me. “You just make sure everything is okay here.”
I nodded, and when they were gone, I turned my attention back to Kinley.
“Are you okay?”
“I’m okay,” she said.
She studied her hands. When I turned her palms to me, they were already healed. The blood was from when she’d been bleeding, but her magic as a shifter was doing what it was supposed to do.
“Let’s get you cleaned and dressed,” I said. “It was a rough night.”
I helped her up and led her to the bathroom. She moved with difficulty, her body jerking. She was still not completely fine, but she would get there. Her magic would see to it.
“I knew they were coming,” she said again. Her voice was soft.
“How?” I asked.
“I dreamed about it.”
I studied her face, but she didn’t look at me. I walked to the bathroom and turned on the shower so we could get clean.
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