Fires in the Darkness by Nora Ash

Author:Nora Ash
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little Huldra Media

Eight

Lightning

“Why don’t you do everyone a favor and drop the toy?”

Lightning shook his head dazedly at the sound of the all-too-familiar sneer, momentarily certain the last blow to his head had given him a concussion.

“You have got to be kidding me!”

Bright’s jarring voice made Lightning look up through the blood-matted tendrils of hair clinging to his forehead. A large, black-clad figure stood on top of the two broken balcony doors, one sword pointed at Bright’s neck, the other held out against the cluster of supes closest to him. The Shade.

What. The. Hell.

“Nope, not kidding. Put the gun down, or you’re going to be a head shorter.” A thin line of blood trickled from Bright’s neck where the very tip of The Shade’s sword pressed in.

Bright dropped his signature weapon on the floor with a clonk. “I haven’t got the faintest idea what you think you’re going to accomplish here. One wrong move and Earthstorm is going to crush your buddy’s windpipes. I do assume he’s why you’re here?”

“That would be correct.” The Shade nodded shortly in Lightning’s direction. “So you should just go right ahead and untie him for me. I might let a few of you live, if you cooperate.”

Oh, for fuck’s sake! Lightning had absolutely no idea why The Shade was here to free him, other than perhaps some misplaced kindness toward Kathryn, but he did know that it was the exact opposite of what he’d wanted. He had wished for Kathryn to be safely out of the city by now, and if The Shade was here, then she was undoubtedly still somewhere out there, way too close to what Bright was about to bring down on St. Anthony’s helpless population.

“I’m sorry, you’ll let a few of us live?” Despite the sharp weapon piercing his skin, Bright let loose a wild laugh. “What is wrong with you? Did this perverse little sex triangle you two got going completely fry your brain, or did Lightning’s ridiculous notion of heroism actually rub off on you? There are thirty of us and one of you. Even without my lovely toy, you don’t stand a chance.

“You know, I used to respect you. You were a ruthless killer who got what he wanted. And now look at you—I even gave you the chance to make off with your precious human, yet here you are… ready to die to stop what you should be as eager as anyone to obtain. Pathetic.” With a flick of his wrist, the corrupt mayor turned on the cameras that had been set up to point at Lightning's de-masked face. “But have it your way. I guess St. Anthony will get to see two of their greatest die on camera tonight. Though I daresay, they might be cheering when they see your guts spilling out, Shade. You never were particularly popular, were you?”

To Lightning’s utter surprise, The Shade actually smiled at Bright’s gloating. Perhaps he really had lost the plot.

“You know, Mayor Wilkins, I think you’re forgetting one little thing.

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