Psychic Noir (The Big Sleep): A Southern Psychic Mystery (The SDF Paranormal Mysteries Book 8) by Amie Gibbons

Author:Amie Gibbons [Gibbons, Amie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gremlin Publishing
Published: 2022-05-22T20:00:00+00:00

Chapter eleven

I poured on the vamp speed, closing on the guy, Carvi right behind. The kidnapper was fast, but he wasn’t vampire fast.

Like he heard me thinking, he picked up speed, hitting the zooming vamp levels Carvi and I were at, and pulling ahead of both of us.

Answers the whole ‘was it a vamp’ question, I thought, pouring everything I had into my little legs. Carvi pulled ahead of me, and the guy in black ran faster still.

He zoomed through the trees, gaining ground on us despite the extra weight dangling from his shoulder.

The man broke onto the street, and Carvi and I followed. By the time I cleared the trees looking down West End, Carvi was halfway up towards the corner where it met 21st, and the guy was far ahead of him.

“Fuck!” I shouted, running after them again.

It wasn’t that I was getting tired; I could run like this forever. Benefits of not having to breathe in this reality. I just couldn’t make myself go faster than I already was. It was like I was at my top speed, and this was it, I wasn’t gaining anymore no matter what, because this was my max, like I was running with nothing held back.

Carvi and the guy were still ahead of me.

The guy hit the edge of the line of houses across the street from the law school, the gated community. The Pines, I think.

He jumped in the air like a cat, landing on top of the wall, and jumped through the shield or whatever bubbled over the top, barely making a ripple in the air before he disappeared.

Carvi ran, jumping up like the guy had.

And flattened on the shield, screaming as he smoked and jerked as lighting danced over his body.

“Carvi!” I screamed, leaping up and grabbing his sneaker, the only part of him not smoking, yanking him off by his thick rubber sole.

He coughed and wheezed as he thunked to the ground, hitting his back and head hard enough for me to hear a crack. His mouth moved for a moment before he passed clean out.

Sirens went off, sending blue and red lights dancing in the air above the gated community, and I heard shouts.

“Carvi,” I whispered, “come on.”

He didn’t stir.

“What good’s being a vamp if this doesn’t work, right?” I pulled him up and slung him over my shoulders in a fireman’s carry. I knew I had vamp strength, but it still shocked me that I could do it.

I ran back towards campus, hitting the trees behind the law school, and turning to look just in time to see Black Jackets running out of the side of the wall like it was a doorway, even though I couldn’t see one, and yelling to spread out.

No time to hang out and watch what they did.

I turned and ran with Carvi at the top speed I could muster while carrying him. I didn’t sag under the weight or anything. I could carry him, but it wasn’t easy. I felt the extra weight, and it slowed me down.

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