The Warlock King (The Kings) by Killough-Walden Heather

Author:Killough-Walden, Heather [Killough-Walden, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-02-11T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Jesse impatiently wiped the blood from his forehead before it could slip into his eye. Then he used his shoulder to crash through the only remaining barrier between himself and the parlor car he and the other werewolves had brawled in earlier.

He could hear her heartbeat, faint and fluttery. He could smell her blood.

He could also smell magic – boatloads of it. When he hurdled himself into the car to the sound of splintering plastic and rending metal, along with the smell of burning fuel, he saw why.

Before him swirled a mass of sparkling energy. It pulsed with chaotic power, a chasm of potential danger and destruction. At the center of this whirlwind of dark magic stood Chloe Septeran. On the ground beside her knelt Jason Alberich, his head bent, his back bowed in physical defeat.

On the other side of them stood a second Jason Alberich, identical to the first Warlock King in every respect but for the fact that he still stood.

Jesse’s heart hammered, his eyes glowed hot, and his fangs dripped with the blood of slaughtered vampire. He could make no sense of what he was witnessing. Two Warlock Kings? The Septeran girl swirling with magic that made her hair stand on end? She looked like the girl on the cover of the Heavy Metal album!

A half-second later, there was a warped flash and Septeran and the kneeling Jason were transported away.

Jesse had no idea what exactly had just transpired or what the hell it meant, but none of it mattered. Not to him – not just then.

All that mattered was that on the other end of the doomed car lay the unconscious form of Imani Zareb, her pulse weakening further with each passing second.

The train was going to go any moment now. It had derailed several cars ahead. The engine had combusted. Imani’s coven had managed to transport every mortal off the locomotive to a safe location, where they were being held in a sleeping stasis until their memories could be altered. But Imani herself had been trapped here on the train, as had Jesse, with the task of destroying the final vampires who had been sent for Chloe Septeran.

Jesse gauged the distance between himself and the witch. He judged how long it would take him to make his way through the Jason Alberich still standing there, who smelled just a bit worse on the evil meter than did the original Jason Alberich. He considered what he was going to do to get himself and Imani off the train once he got to her.

Just as he was beginning to realize it might be impossible and was preparing to try it anyway, his body began to shimmer. It was the oddest sensation – like he imagined it would feel to be “beamed up” by someone on the Enterprise. He was the Werewolf Council Overseer and he was dating the herald of a witch’s coven, so of course he’d experienced the sensation before. It was par for the course for him.

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