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Chapter 32
Screams and shrieks echoed off of the cave walls in a deafening roar that filled her soul with the same gusto the crescendo of a grand opera might stir in order to bring the crowd to their feet, their hearts and hands banging together as they spurred the musicians on. Jo pulled the trigger again and again, firing into the near darkness at anything that moved in front of her.
Zane held his fire. “Careful not to take out all of them,” he reminded her.
Jo nodded, remembering the entire raid would do them no good if they couldn’t catch a squealer or two. The Vampires continued to pour around the corner, exploding in ash one after another. Whatever powers it had been increasing the strength of many of the monsters she’d encountered over the years, these seemed weak in comparison. Many of them went down from a single bullet, maybe two. It was unusual and made her question everything she knew about Vampires.
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Night Slayer Chapter 33
The two bloodsuckers Mikali was holding at gunpoint in a dark cavern looked exactly like what Jo had been imagining when she’d picked out two potential snitches in her mind. Both of them were groveling on the ground, sweat pouring from their undead foreheads as they pleaded with the Guardian to let them go. Mikali was glaring at them, standing at his full height, which had to be at least six three since he towered over Jo, alternating the target at the end of his Beretta from one sniveling bastard to the other.She left Ping out in the hall to “guard the door” and then went inside. “Nice job, man,” Jo said, coming up behind him but hesitating to actually touch the large man on the back the way she might pat a teammate on the back if they were playing a team sport, rather than hunting monsters. “Have you figured out which one of them gets to live yet?”“Not yet,” Mikali growled in his
Night Slayer Chapter 34
In the hallway, on her way to the vault, Jo ran into Zane. Literally. It was dark, and she wasn’t paying attention to where she was going. He’d stopped, seeing her coming, likely hoping she’d look up and sidestep, but when she didn’t, her head collided with what felt like a wall of muscle.His arms entangled her, keeping her from falling backward. “Oh, God, Zane. Sorry,” she muttered, rubbing her forehead. It smarted for a second but otherwise she was fine. She knew exactly how muscular he was but had no idea running into him would feel like an encounter with one of those WWE fighters Uncle Elliott used to be so fond of, back in the day when sports were still a thing. “You okay?”“I’m fine,” he said, flashing that crooked smile that might’ve been enough to make her swoon under other conditions. “Are you?”“Yeah, I’m hard hea
Night Slayer Chapter 35
The sound of laughter cut through the clank of glasses and the crush of peanut shells under foot, mingling with the crooning sound of music sung in a Slovak language she didn’t speak as Jo tried not to breathe in the smoky air. Crossing the bar wasn’t as difficult this time since this establishment wasn’t as crowded as the one she’d first met Ryker in, and the lights were up, perhaps in an attempt to allow patrons to spot pointy teeth before they became a problem. Or maybe it was the fact that this tavern was attached to a hotel, unlike the seedy back alley haunt Ryker normally played cards in. Either way, she wasn’t impressed with his ability to pick watering holes and would’ve just as soon left him behind when her team pulled out of town. But she’d more or less made a promise she would look after him, and even though he’d been the one to take off without telling them where he was going, she still felt the pull of obligatio
Night Slayer Chapter 36
Finding a hotel that was better than the one she’d slept in the night before wasn’t difficult, but finding one that was decent was another story. Zane had asked privately why she cared so much about staying in a gross hotel when her own apartment looked like the set for a post-apocalyptic movie, to which Jo had replied that’s because it was smack dab in the middle of the apocalypse. “But if I’m gonna pay someone top dollar for a night in their borrowed bed, it better not leave me bitten by bedbugs,” to which he replied that was ridiculous; bedbugs’ teeth were not sharp to bite through her hard outer shell.Eventually, he’d found a three star joint for more than she’d been willing to pay and less than the rest of the team had been willing to pitch in if she’d shut the hell up. For two rooms, they’d paid more than her monthly rent back in Denver, but it would have to work. Four beds wouldn&r
Night Slayer Chapter 37
There was an arm around her waist. It was an odd way to wake up, but as Jo came back to consciousness, it was the first thing that registered. Before she even opened her eyes, she was aware that she was being held. It wasn’t a strong grip at the moment, nothing to be leery of. No Vampire had snuck in during the night and waited patiently for her to open her eyes before squeezing the life out of her. No, whoever it was, they were being kind with their loose grip, not trying to end her.A few more seconds of wakefulness quickly led her to the conclusion that this person was also male. Again, she didn’t have to be fully conscious to know that. For a moment, it entered her mind that perhaps Ryker had felt badly for being such a jackass the night before and climbed into bed with her, but then she realized she knew the scent well. It wasn’t the human--and as interesting a conversation about why he was there as it might’ve been if Ryker
Night Slayer Chapter 38
Aunt Cass looked pissed. In Jo’s experience, her expression was never particularly friendly. She always wore a scowl on her face, as if it had been part of the Vampire curse that had afflicted her when she was a teenager. But when she got out of the passenger side of the vehicle and started walking through the snow to join Jo and the rest of the team, Brandon and the others who had gone along with Cass to see Eliza also filing out of the SUV, Cassidy looked like she was ready to explode someone’s head.“Where the hell are we?” Cassidy asked, looking around. “I thought the X was in a mountain. We’re in the middle of a fucking forest.”“The X is that way,” Jo said, thumbing over her shoulder. “I didn’t think we should get together right in front of the place we’ll be raiding in a few hours.”Cassidy didn’t argue, as if that explanation wa
Night Slayer Chapter 39
The opening to this cave was much larger than the last one. Standing back at the tree line, which was about a hundred paces from the entryway in question, it appeared that Jo would be able to run inside without doing much more than ducking. That should be a plus compared to last time when they’d had to slide down into the opening. This would be more treacherous, though. With an opening that wide, Jo could send more people in at a time, but it was clear there was some sort of a barrier, a door of sorts, several feet into the entryway, something they’d have to blast their way through. Unless the Vampires were kind enough to open up and let them in, which she doubted.She had a couple of regular grenades, the kind one would use to blow a hole into such an obstruction. A silver nitrate grenade wouldn’t affect the area around it, just the Vampires. Mila and Mikali would need the other kind to get through that door. Even then, it would be tou
Night Slayer Chapter 40
“I’m going to try a shield!” Cassidy shouted, stepping through the fray and holding her hands up. Jo never would’ve thought to ask her to do that; she hadn’t been on enough hunts with her aunt to remember she had that capability. As soon as her hands were in the air, what looked like a bubble of light formed between the advancing Vampires and the LIGHTS forces. The Vampires continued to fire, their bullets hitting the shield and either bouncing back at them or falling to the ground. One of the Vampires was standing too close and ended up having his own bullet bounce from the shield and hit him in the shoulder. He shrieked but it wouldn’t end him, unfortunately. Vampires could kill each other, but they couldn’t kill themselves.“Where are we going?” Mikali asked.“Head back that way, toward the brook we crossed earlier. Hopefully, we can put enough distance
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