Semua Bab The Clandestine Saga: Bab 511 - Bab 520

Just as Cadence stepped aside, raising up her right leg in a kick that landed squarely in the Vampire’s gut, she heard a barrage of gunfire from upstairs. Checking her IAC, she could see that Brandon and Meagan were pinned in the hallway and that Meagan had been hit in the arm. Apparently, these bastards had guns and weren’t afraid to use them.“I’m going up there,” Elliott said, and it wasn’t a question. Not that she wouldn’t have agreed. He flew up the stairs as Cadence turned to see he’d only taken care of two of the Vampires he’d been engaged with, which meant she had the bowling ball and a lanky woman with long white hair to dispatch.They both rushed her at the same time from opposite directions. Since her own firearm seemed of little use, she decided to see how powerful her ninja moves were now that she’d been repurposed. She kicked out with both legs at the same time, leaping into the air in t

Back upstairs, Elliott and Brandon were waiting for her. “We did what we could,” the senior Guardian shrugged. “Ain’t no fixin’ that mirror, though.”“I guess Spittle got all seven years of his bad luck in one tiny, explosive package,” Brandon joked.“Do you mean the grenade or Cadence?” Elliott said, laughing at his own comment before the other two joined in.“Both,” Brandon agreed and then they all headed back to the SUV, leaving the Anderson House behind them.There was lots of chatter on Cadence’s IAC as they headed for home, but she tuned it out. The one person she realized had not contacted her at all was Aaron, which made her sad, but at the same time, she figured he’d be ready to lower the hammer on them the second she returned to campus. She’d have to be ready to take it, though. At least she’d accomplished her mission and no one had gotten too severel

The inner turmoil was still brewing when she pulled her eyes away from him and headed for the door. He didn’t say anything, and she took that as a good sign because she fully expected him to tell her to go to hell. Once she was downstairs and the night air hit her directly in the face, a tear sprang free, but she brushed it away with the back of her hand and kept walking, unwilling to admit that whatever he had become had been able to get to her.Though she understood she needed to visit Cass so her sister could go to sleep, she decided to swing by and check on Meagan first. She knew the Hunter had gone in to see Jamie, and she wanted to make sure her friend was okay. Since she had to walk right past his office to get to her sister’s apartment anyway, she went ahead and made the detour.“Looks good,” Jamie was saying to Meagan who had a gown on over her black leather pants. The bandage was gone so that the place where she’d been shot was e

“Yeah. Is Aaron still in his office?” Jamie asked.Cadence nodded. “Probably. Let me talk to Cass real quick, and then we can head over and see if we can get him back long enough to explain the situation to him.”“Can’t you do that while we walk?”She could tell by the smirk on his face that he was teasing her. Everyone knew she wasn’t so great at multitasking, and for something this important, she didn’t want to try to explain to her sister while she was moving. Cadence didn’t answer him, though, only gave him the stink eye. “Cass, I’m sorry I haven’t made it over there yet, but something important has come up, and I need your help.”“I’ll say. Did you know Aaron had all of Elliott and Brandon’s stuff packed up? What the hell?”“Yeah, I know. It’s awful. But that’ll have to wait. Look, Jamie and I thin

Lush green foliage, thick with brambles and tangled branches, dotted the mountainside, the ground, muddied from recent rain, uneven and densely populated with rocks that made walking unappealing, and in her present mood, the last thing on earth Asteria wanted to do was trek around the forest looking for help from someone who should’ve been seeking her out. She was the Vampire Queen, after all. So why in the world would she need to suffer the degradation of climbing up and down mountain trails looking for one who should feel blessed to be considered a potential use to someone of her stature?“Please try not to worry, Your Majesty,” the stooped man called Nelo said over his shoulder as they wound their way up a nearly undetectable trail. “I am certain we will find him today.”“That is what you said yesterday,” Asteria reminded him. After two days of searching for Daunator, they had come up empty handed. Asteria had announced earl