Claiming Marcus by Jocelynn Drake

Author:Jocelynn Drake [Drake, Jocelynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Gay / Lesbian / LGBT
ISBN: 9781702575911
Google: E7W5ywEACAAJ
Amazon: B07YPYY16N
Goodreads: 53168746
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-10-28T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Panic slammed into Marcus as he picked himself off the ground. He quickly looked around to see Bel and Rafe rising as well. Ethan was holding his mother steady on her feet. Someone had set an explosion off against his fucking front door. There were deep voices shouting directions. Their attackers were coming. He needed to get Ethan and Julianna to safety.

Looking at Ethan, he could think of only one thing.

“Run!” he bellowed.

Ethan’s terrified gaze held his for a moment before he gave a sharp nod and started pulling Julianna toward the other door out of the library. It would lead him to the rear parlor, which had a door onto the hallway farther into the town house. They could escape through the kitchen and out the back door, assuming they weren’t already surrounded.

A different swell of fear threatened to consume Marcus. These attackers weren’t the only threat to Ethan’s life. If this attack triggered another episode in Julianna, Ethan would be defenseless. He had no way of protecting himself against her.

“Bel, go with them!”

Bel wordlessly ran after Ethan and Julianna as they disappeared into the dark room. His heart went out to his brother, who was still anxious around their mother following her latest attack. He wasn’t comfortable being around her alone yet, and it would likely take several more months before that occurred, but Bel knew that of him and his twin, Rafe was the stronger fighter.

Marcus had no idea who was attacking his home, but he had a few guesses. Unfortunately, he had no weapons tucked away in the library. Hell, the closest on hand were in his office and bedroom on the third floor. With Ethan packing up the house, he’d moved all the weapons he kept hidden about his home because he didn’t want his assistant stumbling over them and asking awkward questions. At the time, he didn’t think Ethan would understand that he was always at risk of being attacked by another vampire.

Now it wouldn’t be quite so hard to explain.

As Rafe and Marcus turned toward the hall, they watched as the first few men entered wearing what looked to be body armor while wielding automatic weapons. These weren’t vampires. They preferred knives for hacking off limbs and heads. Bullets didn’t always slow down vampires.

Marcus glanced over at Rafe, who tossed him a jaunty smile and a little shrug.

“Can you grab the lights, dear brother?” Rafe asked.

Marcus relaxed the little part of him that seemed to hold back the power. Tension flooded from his body while all the light in the hallway rushed into his body. Pitch blackness crashed over the area and shouts rose in the darkness. The intruders floundered a bit, waving the nose of their guns wildly from one side to the next, blind to everything. Night vision goggles didn’t even work in his version of a magical night.

He’d asked Rafe how he managed to fight in that complete blackness and his brother said that he relied on sound to take down his prey.

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