Sam Harlan (Book 4): Deal with the Devil by Swaim Kevin Lee

Author:Swaim, Kevin Lee [Swaim, Kevin Lee]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Vampires | Paranormal & Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Picadillo Publishing
Published: 2018-03-21T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The ground shook again as another pair of whumps rocked the building. “Grenades?” I asked. “Are you serious? Who would attack your place with grenades?”

“Garski,” Desmond snarled. “It’s gotta be Garski.”

“He will stop his attack once he knows we are here,” Callie said.

Asa turned to Callie and frowned. “I don’t think he will care.”

“But we’re human—”

“What difference will that make to him?” Desmond asked.

“He’s a man of God,” Callie said, as if it made all the difference in the world.

Desmond spun to Callie so quickly that she took a step back. “Sister? You may be devoted to God, but Garski ain’t got but one thing on his mind, and that’s killing us.”

“But—”

I reached out and grabbed Callie’s hand. “He had no problem knocking Xavier unconscious. He kidnapped me and shocked me with a Taser. Garski isn’t like us. Like you. He’s willing to do things you aren’t.”

“You think he might actually harm us?”

“Callie? He might kill us to get to them.”

“This is madness,” Callie said. “None of this makes sense. There are too many things going on in Chicago. The murders. A rogue vampire. The Ancients.”

A range of emotions had played across Desmond and Asa’s faces over the past thirty minutes, but now I saw an emotion I had never seen from them.

They’re afraid. They’re … terrified!

“The Ancients are in Chicago?” Desmond demanded. “How many? You saw them? Of course you ain’t seen them.”

“How do you know we haven’t seen them?” I asked.

“On account of you still being alive.”

“Oh. Has anyone ever seen them?”

“Nobody I ever heard of.”

“Some say a few of our kind in Europe have seen them,” Asa said, “but mostly the sheriff just shows up and tells them what the Ancients wants them to do.”

“I never heard nothing but stories,” Desmond said. “And they are all bad. If they are here, then we are in deep shit.”

A pop-popping came from far above, barely louder than a cough. “Does that sound like gunfire?” I asked.

“Jimmy should have sent everyone home,” Desmond said. He turned to Asa. “Call him.”

Asa removed his walkie-talkie from his waistband and spoke Jimmy’s name into it. There was nothing but static, and Asa said Jimmy’s name again.

There came a man’s voice this time. “I’m coming for you.”

“That’s Garski,” I said.

Desmond grabbed the walkie-talkie from Asa. “Where’s Jimmy?”

The walkie-talkie squawked, and then Garski said, “Don’t worry about your servant. Worry about yourself.”

“Garski!” Desmond shouted into the walkie-talkie. “Garski! You better not hurt him. He’s not one of us. You can’t hurt him!”

The walkie-talkie was silent.

“Garski!”

“Can he get down here?” I asked.

Desmond considered that. “He can take either the elevator or the stairs. But he can’t call the elevator, and the stairs are locked up tight—”

There was a boom, this time much closer, and the building shook again.

“Did that sound like someone blowing up a door?” I asked.

“He wouldn’t,” Callie said.

“I think he did,” Asa said. “He’s coming.”

Desmond turned to me. “You got any weapons on you, hunter?”

I knelt and pulled my Kimber from my ankle holster.

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