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I used the momentary distraction to slam the stake into his chest.
I missed, but he wheezed. He pulled it out and threw it to the side.
I met Laura’s gaze. “Can you?”
She nodded slowly, diving at him, giving me enough time to pull out my gun. They rolled around on the ground, and I took aim, but I didn’t have a clear shot, so I jumped into the scramble.
The vampire pinned me with a knee to my chest while he held Laura at arm’s length by the throat. “I’m going to love watching the life fade from both your eyes while your mate watches.” He squeezed, and Laura struggled.
I angled the gun with my free hand, pulling the trigger and hoping.
It hit him in the forehead, and he let out a bloodcurdling hiss. He fell back, and I was on him, pressing the barrel to his chest and pulling the trigger again.
My head whipped up, looking for Dominic, listening for him and trying to feel him through our bond. I laid eyes on him, his mouth on Raf’s throat, and he ripped.
I breathed, turning to find the final vampire. He streaked across the clearing in less than a second toward Dominic. I snarled, lifting the gun to take aim. I pulled the trigger before he got to my mate, and the bullet found home, but as he stumbled, he lifted a knife. He fell forward, using his final act of strength to stab the knife into Dominic’s back.
Dominic tore his brother’s throat out, turning to spit blood on the ground, and in one motion, he also tried to stop the vampire’s attack. But he was too slow. The knife cut through his skin like butter. It had to be magic.
I rushed to him, falling to my knees as he landed on his hands and crying out in pain. He was alive. The vampire had hit him on the wrong side. I grabbed the knife and pulled it out so his body could heal.
He collapsed, writhing in pain. His body tried to shift to aid healing, but something prevented it. He convulsed and thrashed.
“Dominic?!” Laura was beside me, flipping him over. She put her hands on his face, trying to get his attention.
Dominic’s eyes rolled back in his head.
I had no idea where his other brothers were. I put my hand on his back; he was boiling. “What’s wrong with him?”
“I don’t know,” Laura screamed, trying to hold him down as he seized.
Az dragged himself to Dominic’s side, bleeding heavily. “He had wolfsbane on the knife.”
“What?” I tore my gaze away from Az to flip Dominic over, finding black spreading from the knife wound like death-lightning crawling down his back.
“He got Gabe.”
“Fuck.” My body shook with the pain of it. I felt the bond and came upon blackness, the taste of death on my tongue.
I picked up Dominic and flipped him over my shoulder. “We have to get him to the priestess.”
“We’ll never get him there in time.” Laura picked up Gabe, who was still breathing but only barely. “It’s miles around to the entrance to witches’ land.”
“I’m going through.” I took off deeper into the land the vampires had stolen, not caring who I upset by crashing into the witches’ land.
“They’ll kill you. Or worse.”
“I don’t care. He’ll die.”
Laura kept pace with me. “He might not, but he will be dead if the witches turn on us.”
“I’ll take sole responsibility. I can’t lose him.”
The witches didn’t stop us, but they watched. Every house we passed, they came out and stood witness to our trespass.
I dumped Dominic on the table in front of the priestess and gasped, gulping for air. “Help him,” I barely managed.
The priestess went to work on him while I sobbed on my knees. Her very pregnant daughter moved to Gabe when Laura dumped him on the ground a moment later.
