Secret Shifter by Louise Cypress

Author:Louise Cypress [Cypress, Louise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

I spun around to face our attacker, and when I saw who held Cassandra in a vise grip, terror pierced my heart. The face was inhuman, or at least appeared that way at first glance. The place where the eyes should have been were empty sockets, with shriveled nerves dangling like loose threads.

“Blood, blood, blood,” the monster hissed. “The life force calls.”

“It’s the campus police officer!” I shrieked. “The one that the vampire attacked!”

“How to quench this aching thirst?” He pulled his hands farther down Cassandra’s neck and yelped when his palms touched her silver nano-mesh undershirt. It was just the advantage Cassandra needed to be able to gasp for breath and defend herself.

“From Thursday night?” Cassandra stomped on the man’s instep, bent forward, and heaved him over. When he was prone on the ground, she lashed out at his cheek with her silver pendant. The metal decoration singed his face and made him howl. “Use the keys!” Cassandra commanded.

I looked down at the spiky pieces of metal sticking out of my knuckles. “You want me to punch him?”

“Hell yeah, I want you to punch him.” Cassandra whipped the necklace around her head and whacked him in the forehead. The vampire lumbered to his feet, his arms outstretched, trying to figure out which direction she was coming from next.

I hadn’t punched someone since foster care, and never anyone who outweighed me by a hundred pounds. But when the officer lunged toward me, I let him have it, throwing my fist directly at his face and feeling the silver keys pierce his flesh. The vampire howled and clutched his face.

“A knife would be better.” Cassandra spread the necklace out with both hands and circled it around his neck. “But this will have to do.” She pulled the chain into a noose and pulled with all her might until his neck cracked and his head lolled to the side.

“Cassandra.” My voice quavered. “We have company.”

“Blood, blood, blood,” said a middle-aged woman. She had beautiful dreadlocks bound with a purple scarf, and long, flowing silk pants. Her blouse was ripped, and the buttons had popped off. “The life force calls.” The woman’s veins bulged, revealing her newborn status.

Cassandra struggled to untangle her necklace-noose from the sightless police officer. But it was too late. The newborn bared her fangs and leapt toward me. My fist shot out and I smacked her in the nose with the keys.

“That hurt!” she shrieked. “Tempting morsels should play nice.”

When she came for me again, I jabbed her with an undercut. She batted my arm away like it was a toothpick and the keys went flying. “Cassandra!” I screamed “Help!”

“I’m coming!” Cassandra yanked the necklace and decapitated the officer. She struggled to disentangle the necklace from under his severed shoulders.

The newborn shoved me to the ground and hovered her fangs inches from my neck. My strength was no match for her superhuman power.

Eeeerch! A hawk’s scream cut through the night. It flew at the newborn’s face and clawed at her with its talons.

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