Vampire Empress: A Samantha Moon Paranormal Mystery (Vampire for Hire Book 21) by J.R. Rain & Matthew S. Cox

Author:J.R. Rain & Matthew S. Cox [Rain, J.R.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Rain Press
Published: 2020-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

A Bushel of Dark Masters

It’s been a really long time since someone barged into a room and caught me doing something I shouldn’t be doing.

No, I never had an embarrassing moment at home as a teen where someone walked in on me ‘taking matters into my own hands’ so to speak. In a house with three brothers, a sister I shared a bedroom with, and parents... just no. Way too much chaos for me to even attempt finding privacy. My brothers, on the other hand, used to take suspiciously long in the bathroom sometimes.

Last time I had the gasp plus ‘oh shit’ reaction to someone barging into a room happened in college. I’m a little fuzzy on the details. Linda—my dorm mate—either caught me with this guy Gabe I dated for like four months, or walked in on me smoking weed. Yes, I’d been a bit of a wild child back in the day.

Anyway, in this case, the thing I’m not supposed to be doing isn’t embarrassing at all. It’s sneaking into an enemy castle. Allison’s provided an illusion spell to disguise our clothing by making it look like palace guard armor. She’s also given us one hell of a fake suntan, so to speak.

The ascendant dark master who just walked into the sitting room where we decided to hide is making a face at me kinda the way Marcellus Wallace looked at Butch in the movie Pulp Fiction when he saw him sitting in his car. Yeah, that’s definitely a ‘what the hell are you doing here’ stare, mixed with a tiny bit of ‘uh oh.’

Time seems to slow to a crawl as I speed myself up.

I reach for the Devil Killer. The ascendant hasn’t quite decided if they want to commit to attacking me or run for help before Kingsley launches himself at the guy. The guard pivots, arms out wide as though he intends to catch and Judo flip the big guy to the floor. The ascendant is not, however, expecting Kingsley to shapeshift into a tiger-sized wolf in midair. While the dark master does succeed in grabbing the big furry beast around the body, it doesn’t stop the enormous, fanged mouth.

Kingsley practically inhales the vampire’s entire head, wrenching the ascendant into the room out of sight from the hallway. He chomps down, throwing a spray of exceptionally dark blood everywhere. I stare in momentary horror at the decapitated body lying on its front side, the bite so deep it scooped out a little torso as well as the entire neck. Allison finally reacts to Kingsley’s leap. She raises her arms in preparation to cast a spell. Seeing as how the ascendant is very unconscious, I relax my supernatural speed and the world returns to normal time.

Allison relaxes, too, and clamps her hands over her mouth to stifle the disgusted noises she can’t help but make at the gore. Blood seeps out of the hole where the neck used to be. No arterial spurting due to undeath.

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