Stealing Magic (Vampire Primes) by Susan Sizemore

Author:Susan Sizemore [Sizemore, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-12-05T05:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Eight

Julien watched Grace walk into the darkness, which was as bright for him as daylight was for her. He was happier than he had ever been in his life, though he could not understand how a mortal female could make him feel this way. Happier, and full of a lightning sizzle of passionate longing which was totally new, totally delightful. He’d thought himself jaded.

A turn in the path took Grace from his sight. It was time he presented himself to Beverly for a good polishing and primping.

He took only one step before his skull exploded in fiery pain.

Julien fell to his knees. The next blow struck the base of his spine. He sprawled face first onto the floor.

Silver. The fiery pain could only be from silver.

Julien rolled over in time to throw his arms up to ward off another strike. He stifled a scream when the heavy wooden staff brushed his bare wrist. His skin blistered from the touch of hawthorn wood.

Despite the agony he made it to his feet. He saw that it was a female wielding the staff. On one end was a knob of silver. She whirled the staff and slashed the blade at the other end across his face.

Blood splashed into his eyes. He still managed to grab the staff. The wood burned his palms, but he had to get the woman’s weapon from her. She whirled away, still holding the staff. He wiped blood out of his eyes in time to see her lunging toward him. The tip of the silver blade gave off an icy blue glow in the darkness. He couldn’t move with his usual swiftness, but he managed to dodge enough to keep the silver knife from penetrating his heart. The pain was still hideous as silver cut across his ribs. The damned silver and hawthorn sapped his strength.

The female came at him again.

Julien stumbled toward her. He would not let this vampire hunter take him down, not after he’d found—

Grace threw herself at his attacker, dragging them both to the floor. “Get away from my vampire!” Grace shouted.

“I’m saving you from the monster!” the woman shouted back.

Julien heard the sound of a fist hitting flesh as Grace’s answer.

Pain ripped through his back as he made his way to the struggling females. Skirts and petticoats and limbs flew as the women fought back and forth across the small space of the folly. It was Grace who finally pinned the other mortal female against the wall, holding her there with the staff pressed across her chest.

“Julien!” Grace shouted over her shoulder. “Are you all right?”

“I have been better,” he replied.

The woman against the wall glared hatred at him.

Grace moved the staff so that it pressed against his attacker’s throat. “Don’t move.”

Julien would not have been surprised at vampire females battling, but mortal females weren’t supposed to behave this way. At least not among the upper classes.

“We aren’t ladies, this one and I,” Grace picked up on his thought. She glanced over her shoulder at him.

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