A Smidge of Voodoo (Cocktails in Hell Book 7) by S.E. Babin

Author:S.E. Babin [Babin, S.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-27T00:00:00+00:00

chapter

fifteen

He took me straight back into the darkness. My hand clenched around the vampire. He squeezed me around the waist once.

“I must leave this place at once,” he whispered in my ear. “The dragon knows where you are. Beware of Xander. He is not as powerful as us, but he is wily.”

“Thank you.”

He slipped away and left me in the chaos of a vampire dinner gone terribly wrong.

I flipped open a few potion bottles, pulling one from the holder and drinking it down. My eyes adjusted in seconds. Alistair stood encompassed by his shadows, face a mask of rage as vampires screamed in agony around him.

There was no sign of Xander.

Not good. I took in everything all at once and flipped a few more lids open.

“Alistair.”

“I see you.” His voice sounded a hint strained.

“Want me to take some of them out?”

He laughed. “I do love seeing you in action. Left if you don’t mind.”

I tossed two fire potions in that direction, straight into the midst of vampires trying to reach Alistair.

This one wasn’t a normal fire. It would only burn those I’d targeted—in this case, only vampires. Thanks to Clara’s donations, the fire had no trouble finding them, blue flames licking the ground until it touched a vamp. I watched their annoyance when their clothing caught on fire, only for their expression to turn to fear once they realized it was no normal fire licking up their body.

In seconds, ten vampires burst into ash.

Alistair’s dark laugh made me grin.

Some smell different, he whispered through my mind. They aren’t attacking. Leave them for now. I’m curious about them.

Where’s Xander?

He disappeared as soon as you did. We’ll need to leave him alive for Clara.

Done.

Together, he and I ripped through the room, destroying any vampire who challenged us. A few stayed close to the wall, their hands raised in surrender. Neither of us harmed them, but I sent a wall of flame to keep them trapped and out of the battle just in case they changed their mind.

When it was over, over a hundred piles of ash lay on the floor. Alistair dropped his shadows and straightened his tie, not a hair out of place.

I, of course, could not say the same. The bottom of my gown had burned away, exposing my bare feet and ankles.

Alistair’s brow lifted when he noticed.

I shrugged. “How can my prince ever find me if I don’t leave evidence behind?”

He snorted and turned to the vamps cowering behind the flames.

“Violet?”

I extinguished them with a thought.

“Hello,” Alistair said, studying them with a curious expression.

Three of them sat apart from the rest, staring at me with curiosity but no fear.

Alistair?

I know. Clara’s line?

I think so.

Interesting, he murmured in my mind.

“Tell me why we shouldn’t kill you all and be done with this place?” he asked the vampires.

“We surrender,” spoke one, a blond wearing a blood-stained shirt.

Alistair’s gaze flicked to the collar and back to the vamp’s face. “Whose blood are you wearing?”

We both noticed the bodies of servers lying around, expressions frozen in death.

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