Hibernian Blood (A Vampire Urban Fantasy) (Hibernian Hollows Book 1) by Dean F. Wilson

Author:Dean F. Wilson [Wilson, Dean F.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Dioscuri Press
Published: 2017-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

22 – INVASION

Lilly was having a quiet Sunday, curling up by the fire with a good book. A magic book, of course. Until she was accepted by a coven, this was her only avenue to learn. It was risky to learn this way without the guidance of someone more experienced, but she didn't have the patience to wait.

She was just at a really interesting section on invocations when there was a tremendous thump at the door. She perked up, wondering if maybe it was James. She hadn't been able to get through to his mobile, and he hadn't met her for lunch. She listened for another sound. It came swiftly with a thunderous clap. This wasn't someone knocking. It was someone trying to get in.

She leapt out of her seat and ran to the door, just as it splintered open.

There, on the other side, stood the O'Neills, with Dearg front and centre, both arms outstretched, as if to announce “I'm here!”

“You can't come in,” Lilly blurted. “You're not invited.”

Dearg smiled and tapped a bladed fingernail against the invisible barrier. It shimmered electric blue. Then she looked at the book Lilly was still clutching in her hands.

“You're a witch, huh?”

Lilly said nothing.

“Well,” Dearg continued. “I know some magic too.”

With that, the vampire immediately began an incantation, and though Lilly was still unschooled in much of magic, she knew instantly that it was a barrier-breaking spell. Normally this wasn't something you had to worry about with vampires. But not Dearg. She was unique.

Lilly thought for a moment that she might escape from the window, but she knew the vampires would be waiting for her there. They could outrun her with ease. When in a siege, the defender usually had the advantage. But only if the walls held.

She grabbed her mobile phone and called for James. “Come on, pick up,” she pleaded. It rang out. She tried again, but it went straight to voicemail. She didn't want to think about what might have happened to him. If it was bad, she was probably going to find out first-hand.

She glanced back at the broken door, where the barrier was breaking. She could see, just on the edge of vision, the glimmer of a giant battering ram, with the face of a gargoyle. Dearg rocked back and forth like the tide, throwing her arms forward for the punch of the ram, then drawing them back to prepare for another strike. The barrier could only take so much of this.

Lilly frantically searched through her bookcase for some defensive tomes, knocking normally prized books to the floor in the panic of it all. She wasn't even sure what she was looking for, and grabbed the first volume she could find with some protective magic. She cast it open and raced about the room to find her supplies. She got several items on the list, running her shaking finger down the page, until she got to “the heart of a virgin child.”

“Damn,” she said, sighing.

The barrier was weakening. She could see the glimmering light flicker, like a candle burning low.

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