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I inadvertently let go of Lauren to defend myself, and then they’re both gone–vanished inside his house with the door slammed shut in my face.
A real wolf-snarl erupts from my throat. The only thing that keeps me from spontaneously shifting into wolf form is the reminder that I have silver bullets.
I draw the gun at the same time I smash the door down with a powerful kick of my foot.
They are nowhere. Damn, that fucker moves fast.
I hear a whimper down the hall, and I barrel down it and bash another door in.
I find Lauren bent backward in Thomas’ arms, the fucking leech feeding from her throat.
I step close, so I won’t miss and hit Lauren, then aim and pull the trigger. The bullet rips into his shoulder. Thomas howls and drops to the floor, clutching at the bloodless wound.
A silver bullet won’t kill a vampire, but it will sap his power and hurt like hell. I aimed for bone, wanting the bullet to remain lodged there long enough for us to get away.
Lauren’s already running out the door. I heard a vampire’s saliva drugs their victim, but she seems more than capable of fleeing.
I don’t wait to see if Thomas will recover–I turn to follow her down the hall and out the front door. My body seems to celebrate the second I cross the vampire’s threshold into fresh air. Lauren’s already in the passenger seat, slamming the door shut.
“Do you know what happens when you cross a wolf with a bear?”
Thomas’ voice chills me.
I whirl to point the gun at him again as I swiftly walk backward the rest of the way to the driver’s seat. He’s slouched to one side, propped against the doorframe like he can’t hold himself up.
“They say it can kill the mother, and that’s true. But that’s not why it’s forbidden.”
I have no fucking idea why this asshole is talking about bears right now. He must be cray-cray. I’ve heard it can happen to extremely old vampires. This guy didn’t seem all that old, but what do I know?
I slide into the seat and dig in my pocket for the keys. “Do you want to know the real reason?” he asks as I reach for the door handle.
I slam it closed but with my shifter hearing, I still hear the vampire’s parting words.
“It’s forbidden because the resulting animal is too powerful.”
I step on the gas and peel out on the brick driveway, smashing through the gate even though it was slowly swinging wide.
It drags along beside the car for a few moments before it falls away and tumbles down the street.
I think we’re safe until the cold end of the pistol pokes into my ribs.
“That’s it, Abe. I’ve had it.” Lauren managed to pick up the gun in the pocket of her bound hands. “Pull over, or I swear I’ll shoot.”
Chapter Eight
Lauren
My junior year at Landhower, Luke got everyone in the Suntan Six ecstasy for a party. The way I feel now is pretty similar. Despite my awareness of what just happened, I’m blissed out, slightly in lust with Abe, and queasy. Which is why I’m doing everything I can to muster anger.
Abe almost got me killed! Or raped. Or permanently kept as a blood slave. I don’t know what that vampire’s plans were for me, but they couldn’t have been good.
But something he did made it so that nothing really bothers me. I felt no trauma or fear when he bit me. Only a pleasant disassociation from everything.
Great. Like I need to feel more numb about my so-called life.
The important thing, though, is that I remember everything. The memory of Abe shifting from wolf to human returned the moment he kicked the bedroom door in. So did the ability to move.
For whatever reason, Abe seems to be the cure to whatever ails me. Maybe it’s the turn-on of his dramatic rescue. Or just that he continuously pisses me off. I’m leaning into that righteous anger right now as I point his pistol at him.
