A Monster's Birth: A Gritty Urban Fantasy Novel (Rouen Chronicles Book 6) by Raven Steele

Author:Raven Steele [Steele, Raven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

I leaped away from him and stared down at his body. My mouth fell open, releasing a trickle of blood from my lips and down my chin. I could just barely make out the beat of his heart. He was dying. Did I care? He was as much a criminal as the vampires were. If he lived, he’d just return to his lucrative employment.

I stepped off the elevator. I didn’t care. A year ago, I would’ve taken him to the police, but they were gone just like my desire to save every human regardless of their crime.

The elevator doors closed behind me. I leaned against the wall opposite of it, trying to catch my breath. Already my stomach felt better, but I still craved more. I also craved a fight.

I glanced down the hall and surveyed all the doors, wondering where the pimp might have been taking me to. I walked up and down and listened to sounds beyond the walls. At the last door, I detected the distinct smell of vampires. I reached into my jacket pocket and withdrew two daggers. I stuffed them up my sleeves and knocked on the door.

A human answered it and peered out into the hall behind me. "Where's Jimmy?"

"He told me to come on up without him."

The man quickly reached behind his back and removed a gun. He pointed it at my head. "Jimmy wouldn't do that."

Before he could pull the trigger, I jerked the gun from him and snapped it in half. I took hold of his head and rammed it into the side of the doorjamb, knocking him unconscious. I stepped over his body into a small entryway.

I expected several vampires to attack me at once, but no one came. When I entered the living room, I found out why. A dozen humans sat in what looked like salon chairs, their arms hanging limply at their sides. A vampire was on each arm, drinking freely. The sight and smell of it brought on a powerful wave of hunger that shook my body, and it took all the strength I had not to join them. Humans, most of them probably innocent, were suffering. I couldn’t be a part of that.

I realigned my focus and, in less than a minute, had killed every vampire in the room. I examined the humans. They were all alive and mostly unharmed, but groggy. The vampires had probably given them something to keep them still. I stepped toward the closest one, my mouth salivating.

"It's hard to resist, isn't it?"

I whirled around, my mind instantly sharpening. A familiar face stood in the doorway. "Hacksaw?"

He was the fighter I had fought at the Devil's Playground months ago. The guy was massive with bulging muscles and an impressive right hook. I had thought there was something different about him then, and I sensed it now too. I inhaled, instantly knowing what he was now that my senses were heightened. "You’re a shifter."

"In a vampire city. Doesn't make sense, does it?"

"What do you want?" I asked, keeping a close eye on his movements.

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