Dream Walker (Bailey Spade Book 1) by Dima Zales & Anna Zaires

Author:Dima Zales & Anna Zaires [Zales, Dima & Zaires, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mozaika Publications
Published: 2021-01-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

What remains of Hekima spouts a fountain of blood.

I shriek.

Fangs busting out, Kain flashes toward the edge of the bridge. The beast must fear vampires, because it seizes the rest of Hekima in its jaws and disappears into the murky waters.

“What the hell?” Shaking uncontrollably, I lurch after Kain. “What was that?”

The vampire curses and glares at the water as though he’s contemplating diving in.

“Are you insane?” I grab his shoulder. “Hekima is dead. Do you want to join him?”

He twists around to face me. “You’re not going to tell anyone about this,” he says through gritted teeth. “The rain will wash away the blood and…”

I don’t know what he says next. Moving purely on adrenaline-filled autopilot, I pull out the hand sanitizer and clean my hands, as though the blood Kain speaks of is on them.

“Don’t worry,” I say numbly when he gives me a shake. “I won’t tell anyone.”

“And you realize that was another murder, right?” He stares into my eyes as though he’s about to glamour me.

“It was?” I reflexively sanitize my hands again.

“Come inside.” He grabs my fresh, clean hand and drags me behind him like a rag doll.

I’m not sure if he glamours me or not, but I somehow find myself back in his quarters.

“What did you want to talk to me about?” he growls. “Speak.”

Shaking off the residual shock, I look around for listening devices. I don’t see any, but that doesn’t mean much. “Can you go to sleep again? No one can overhear us if we speak in the dream world.”

He rolls his eyes but obediently stalks into his bedroom and puts himself to sleep. I slip into the dream world, ask Pom not to show himself, and find Kain. He’s already deep within a dream of drinking blood from a woman I’ve never seen.

I make the woman disappear, convince him he’s dreaming, and place us in my cloud office—in this case, to soothe my own raw nerves. Kain can fend for himself.

“Sit there.” I point to where I usually sit and take the therapy couch myself. “Now, what was that thing?” I replicate the creature that ate Hekima a few feet away. “Do things like that live on Earth?”

He gives my recreation a baleful glare. “It was Nessie. She was a gift from the Council in Scotland.”

I goggle at him. “As in the Loch Ness monster?”

He nods. “Humans got wind of the poor creature, so she had to be relocated.”

Oh, crap—he’s serious. I make Nessie disappear and create a stuffed replica of Pom’s usual dream shape so I can hug him to my chest. “Why would you put something so dangerous in your moat?”

Kain shrugs wearily. “It happened before my time, back when the Council kept prisoners in the dungeon. Anyone escaping through the sewers became Nessie’s lunch.”

Disgusting. The cell they initially gave me as a room—if I’d used that hole-in-the-floor excuse of a toilet, I’d literally have been putting my butt on the line. I take in a deep breath

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