Day of the Dragon by Rebecca York

Author:Rebecca York [York, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Paranormal
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2010-12-07T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

RAMSAY GATHERED EVERY ounce of strength he still possessed. The first thing he saw as the thug rounded the curve was the barrel of his gun, ready for action. Jerking it from the man’s grasp, Ramsay sprang forward, knocking the tracker off his feet. The flashlight clattered to the ground as he brought his prey down.

Prey. It was a long time since he’d thought of humans in those terms. But old instincts sprang to his aid.

He had surprise on his side. As he’d calculated, the tracker assumed that they’d tried to hide farther back in the cave.

Even wounded, Ramsay had the strength advantage. Summoning hidden reserves, he bashed the man’s head against the stone floor, then felt him go limp.

“Ramsay, are you all right?”

“Yeah.”

“Is he . . . dead?”

“Yes,” he lied. The guy wasn’t gone yet. But he would be soon. “Futuo,” he cursed under his breath as he calculated risk against necessity.

“What?”

“He seems to be on his own, but I’ve got to get rid of him . . . in case one of the others comes looking for him or us and finds the cave. Can you guard the entrance?”

“Yes,” she answered, but he knew she was struggling to hold her voice steady as she peered at him in the flashlight beam.

“You look terrible.”

“I’ll be okay.”

He pulled the pack off the man’s back and stuffed the gun inside.

“Ramsay.”

He turned to her and pulled her close. “We’ll get out of this.”

“It’s all happening too fast.”

“Yeah.”

He held her for a moment, sending her silent messages of strength and confidence.

“You’re making me feel better,” she murmured. “How are you doing it?”

“We’re making each other feel better,” he answered, trying to block out everything but her. He’d needed her more than he’d been willing to admit, and now she was back in his arms. He longed to keep her there, but his business was too urgent.

Letting go of Madison, he stepped away. With a grimace of distaste at what he had to do, he picked up the guy and his pack and started down the tunnel toward the cavern he’d seen on his previous trip. As soon as he was out of sight, he shifted the man in his grip, exposing his neck. Plunging his feeding teeth into flesh, he drank warm blood, feeling it flood his system, giving him the strength he was going to need to get himself and Madison out of this trap.

As he drank, he felt the man struggle in his grasp.

Acting on instinct, he quieted the thug with a savage bite to the windpipe. Ignoring the sputtering and gasping, he kept moving. For a long time, he’d thought of himself as civilized. It seemed that his savage nature wasn’t far from the surface.

But he had an excuse. This guy had come into the cave prepared to kill him, but the better man had won.

Man?

Well, he wasn’t exactly that. And he’d just proved it with his actions.

The trip to the cavern felt endless, but finally he saw the tunnel open out ahead of him.

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