I’ll Be Slaying You by Cynthia Eden

Author:Cynthia Eden
Format: mobi
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2010-06-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

He woke on a gurney. A mask covered half of his face and some crazy woman had her hand pressed hard to his heart. Simon’s hands jerked, snapping through the binds that held his wrists in place.

“Wow, easy!” That hand pressed harder. The woman stared at him, hazel eyes steady. “You go jumping up, you’ll ruin all my fine work.”

He heaved up anyway, and winced at the pull of—stitches? Yeah, she’d sewn up his chest.

“I didn’t do anything for the burns.” No, he didn’t want to look at those, but the woman, an EMT, trailed her fingers down his arm.

Pain pulsed through him and Simon sucked in a hard breath.

“Easy.” She glanced over her shoulder at the swarming cops and the firefighters with their blasting hoses. Then her eyes came back to him. “I stitched you up to stop the blood loss. I figured the burns would heal either before or on your next rising.”

Rising. A vampire term. So the lady with the curly brown hair knew what he was.

“I gave you blood,” she said, leaning in close and pointing to a bag that dangled near his head. “It took four bags to wake you up.”

“You mind giving him some room, Samuels?” Dee’s annoyed voice.

Simon almost smiled. Almost.

The EMT did.

“Jeez, I swear, if I didn’t know you were screwing that charmer, I’d think you were hitting on my vamp.”

Her vamp? Since when?

Serious progress.

Samuels eased back and Simon got a good look at his Born.

Soot marked the right side of her face. The ends of her hair had been scorched, so the cut was even more screwed than normal. Her lips were red. Her eyes big and dark. And when those eyes landed on him, horror filled them.

“Oh, hell, Simon, I didn’t know it was this bad.” She jumped into the back of the ambulance and hurried to his side. “What the hell were you thinking? Vamps can’t jump through fire. You know the skin of a vamp burns too fast.”

A weakness. One of only a few his kind possessed.

Her breath came out in a long hiss. Her fingers hovered over the red, raw flesh.

He caught her hand. “Don’t look at it.”

Her gaze rose. “Your face…”

Then he remembered the flash of agony along his cheek.

But her eyes only flickered for a moment, then held his. “Tough guy, aren’t you?”

Like this was the worst that had ever happened to him.

Not even close.

“You’ve got to stop trying to protect me.” Her fingers lifted and brushed back his hair. Simon knew his hair had to be singed like hers. That, too, would vanish with the next rising. “You know I’m stronger than I look,” she said.

A hell of a lot stronger. “You killed them all?” A guy could hope, because those assholes were trouble.

Her hand fell away. “No, your sire’s still breathing. Kinda, anyway.”

He flinched. This was the last thing he wanted. “What? Why? And where the hell is he? Humans are here!”

“Easy.” Why was everyone telling him that?

She glanced back over her shoulder.

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