Here to Slay by Amy Cissell

Author:Amy Cissell [Cissell, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781949410532
Publisher: Broken World Publishing

The second knock went as unanswered as the first, and Charlie huffed her frustration, planting her hands on her hips. “Maybe he’s not home.” She was feeling a little silly about her “instincts” and “feelings.” Maybe it was just her weird-ass crush manifesting itself as concerns to give her a reason to check in on him.

Raven walked off the porch and over to the front window. “He’s home,” they said. They pulled a small case from their back pocket and returned to the front door. A few seconds later, the door was unlocked. Raven held up their hand to keep Charlie from heading in. “Alarm system.”

They placed one hand on either side of the doorframe and wrinkled their brow in concentration. Three beeps from inside the house were followed by a robotic declaration. “System disarmed.”

“Now you can go in.” Raven pocketed the case and followed Charlie and Stephanie inside.

Charlie took the first right into what she assumed would be the living room, composing a mental list of questions for Raven. The sight that greeted her pushed Raven’s lock picking and magical alarm bypassing skills out of her mind. Paul was sprawled on the floor behind a low, white couch with spindly legs. Or rather, a couch that was white on the front, but definitely not on the back. Blood soaked the fabric on the back of the sofa, although it’d been there long enough to brown from oxidation.

Charlie fixated on the couch, her mind running through all the ways it might be possible to clean it, so she didn’t have to look at the body at her feet. She knew without glancing down that his throat would be torn out and, with the amount of blood and the fact that it was several hours old, there was no chance he’d be alive.

This was her fault. By letting him convince her to take him into the caves she knew weren’t safe, she’d drawn attention to him. She may have saved him the first time, but she’d signed his death warrant the moment she gave into him. Stephanie and Sky were right. She had been reckless. Maybe they’d been wrong about keeping her off the training roster while her body healed from her vamp attack, but they’d done it to keep her safe, and Charlie’s mistake had the opposite result.

“He’s breathing,” Raven said.

“That’s impossible,” Stephanie replied.

Charlie tore her focus away from the blood-stained couch and looked down at her brutalized employee. He was breathing. Not only that, but his throat, where she would’ve assumed there’d be a gaping wound, looked whole.

“Where’s he injured?” she asked. She crouched next to the body and looked him over as thoroughly as she could without touching him.

Raven knelt beside Charlie. The motion looked so easy that Charlie was jealous. She might be in pretty fantastic shape, especially for a fifty-year-old woman, but that was graceful.

“Stephanie, please find a couple large bowls, fill them with water, and bring them here with as many rags as you can find.

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