Enchant the Night by Amanda Ashley

Author:Amanda Ashley [Ashley, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2020-07-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Callie’s stomach churned as she stared at the charred bodies sprawled in the street. The vampires—nine in number—had all been shot numerous times—with silver bullets, Quill told her. Too weak to fight back, they had been decapitated, their hearts cut from their chests, their remains burned. A single human female lay among the vampire remains, a gun at her side, a bullet hole in the side of her head.

“I thought the Knights were sworn to protect humanity,” Callie said, her voice bitter.

Quill glanced at the spent cartridges near the woman. They told the tale. “She tried to defend her husband and when that failed, she took her own life.”

Callie turned away. There was no sign of Wendy. Hopefully she and her husband had heeded Quill’s warning and fled before it was too late.

An eerie silence hung over the town, as if the wind and the trees were in mourning.

“How?” she asked in a voice choked with tears. “How did the Knights come and go so quickly?”

“I’m sure the Knight I killed notified his Brothers as soon as he talked to you.” Quill told himself it wasn’t his fault that not all of the vampires had left town. He had warned them in time. The ones who hadn’t left had paid the ultimate price.

Callie glanced around, her gaze probing the shadows. Any number of men could be hiding in the forest that surrounded the town. “Are you sure all the Knights are gone?”

“As sure as I can be.”

Looking up at him, Callie felt an icy chill run through her. She had never seen him look so fierce, so angry.

“I need to bury them,” he said, his voice raw with emotion.

Trying not to look at the bodies, she followed Quill to a partially burned store in town. Inside, he found a shovel and a large wheelbarrow that had escaped the flames.

Handing her the shovel, he pushed the cart back to the scene of the carnage.

Callie trailed behind him, pausing each time he stopped to load a blackened body into the wheelbarrow. When it wouldn’t hold any more, he pushed it deep into the forest. Taking the shovel from her hand, he quickly dug a large hole.

She stood quietly watching as he gently lifted each body and lowered it carefully into the grave. When the conveyance was empty, he dropped the shovel and went back to gather the rest.

When the last corpse had been laid to rest, he filled in the grave, then stood there, jaw rock hard, fists clenched at his sides.

Moving to stand next to him, Callie took his hand in hers, her lips moving in a silent prayer for the dead.

“If you’re going to pray for anyone,” Quill said, “pray for the Knights of the Dark Wood. Because when I find them, what happened here will look mild by comparison.”

* * *

With Trey 95 dead, the vampires scattered and most of the town destroyed, Quill and Callie packed their belongings. Quill made two separate trips to Callie’s house to

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