The Vampire King by Killough-Walden Heather

Author:Killough-Walden, Heather [Killough-Walden, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-02-05T05:00:00+00:00

“I’m fine,” she said. “The twins are fine.” She took a deep breath and tried to let go of her mounting tension. “We’re all fine. Now you can go.”

“Yeah,” Charlie agreed. “Before we kick the Overseer’s ass.”

Jesse’s grin was still ear to ear. It wasn’t every person who could talk to the werewolf council Overseer in such a manner, but where Charlie was concerned, it was allowed, for many reasons. He settled his amber gaze on Charlie and shook his head. “Oh baby girl. We’ve been down that road before and I think we both know who’s gonna win.”

Charlie’s own expression first switched to one of shock, and then slid into one of sly defiance. She and Jesse had definitely been down that road before; Danny knew all about it. The two were very, very close friends, and at one point – long before Malcolm Cole, Charlie’s mate had arrived on the scene – they’d been friends with benefits.

Danny could feel the stares of a few of the patrons in the store now; Jesse Graves was a powerful man in every sense of the word, and anywhere he went, women tended to notice and men tended to get antsy. Now a few of the shoppers had overheard bits of their conversation and things were probably getting a little too public for comfort.

She cleared her throat. “Seriously, Jesse,” she said, lowering her voice and moving forward so that she wouldn’t be overheard. “We really are okay. We’re well guarded.” She gestured to the men who were watching from the hall. Two had taken seats on a bench where Danny could have sworn some other guys had been sitting a few minutes ago, and two were on opposite ends of the hall, leaning casually against the walls. “You have enough muscle on us to keep – ” She was cut off mid-sentence by the sound of bullets thunking into metal and stone all around them.

The Overseer was in motion at once, grabbing Danny and yanking her into his arms before he hit the ground with her, cushioning her fall.

There was a brief silence in which the world tried to catch up with what was happening, and then that silence erupted into screams. Danny blinked, her hands immediately going to her stomach. Her werewolf hearing at once caught the separate heartbeats of her little girl and boy. They’re okay.

Above her, there was a scrambling motion, fast and furious. Danny curled in on herself when she heard more bullet thunks along the walls and the glass storefront shattered. Jesse’s body was a protective weight above her.

And then the noise stopped, and the world went eerily still. Jesse was moving immediately, coming to his feet with the grace of everything he’d ever been trained to be. Danny couldn’t tell exactly what he was doing; a part of her was too shell shocked to get up. It was slowly sinking in that someone had fired a gun on them in a public place full of innocent humans.

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