The Dark Bite: Vampire Hunter Society by Leia Stone

Author:Leia Stone [Stone, Leia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Muffled voices pierced the blackness. I tried to focus on them, but it felt like I was drowning in cold darkness.

“Drive faster!” Luka’s voice snapped, panic and tension registering in his tone.

Luka.

Memories suddenly came rushing back to me, the gala, the attack. He saved me, he came for me. I was totally wrong about him, I could see that now. Maybe all of the other vampires were evil, but not him. He was good.

“I’m going as fast as I can without wrapping this car around a pole,” a familiar male voice called back.

Walsh. The werewolf.

Arms tightened around me and I forced myself to open my eyes. Luka was holding me firmly to his chest. We were in the back seat of a car as Walsh drove us and Sage sat shotgun. Sage had a phone pressed to her ear. “Yes, she’s bleeding out, and if she dies, Luka dies too. She’s his only food source now that they’ve bonded.”

Her words tore into me like a thousand blades.

Luka was working so hard to save me because I was his food…

Bile rose in my throat, and he looked down at me then, shame coloring his pale cheeks when he saw that I was awake. I closed my eyes, not wanting to deal with the reality of what was happening here. I was falling for a vampire who was fighting to keep me alive so he could have dinner.

My eyes sprang open and Luka opened his mouth to speak.

“Sterling?” I rasped, and Luka’s face darkened.

“They got him out.” Luka nodded to Sage and Walsh.

My eyes started to un-focus and I shook my head slightly in an effort to fix them. “I…” I didn’t have the breath to speak, and I couldn’t feel my body anymore. It’s like I didn’t have a body, which was weird.

“Don’t talk.” Sage flew into the back seat, straddling the center console to put her fingers to my pulse. “It’s weak but it’s there,” she told someone on the phone, and then pulled it from her ear, looking down at me. “We’ve got the alpha’s surgeon flying in via helicopter. You’re going to be okay.”

Alpha surgeon? As in Alpha werewolf? What the…? Maybe I hadn’t heard her right. We generally were not permitted to go to hospitals as our accelerated healing would tip them off that not all was right with the world. But we had some of the best doctors in the country on the society’s payroll … just not here right now. Portland would have had a medical safe house, I just had no idea where it was because I hadn’t planned on being attacked while here!

The car skidded to a halt and then I was moving. The door opened and Luka whooshed out with me in his arms. Everything blurred, then suddenly we were stepping into a helicopter.

A male doctor wearing full surgical gear put up two blue gloved hands. “Whoa, this is a completely sterile space,” the doctor barked at Luka. “Give her to my nurse and go.

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