Vampire Undone by Shannon Curtis

Author:Shannon Curtis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Lucien turned toward the bunker entrance. Was that...? He heard the scream again, terrified and pain-filled, and his throat closed up. He raced toward the dark opening, stopping just short of being fried and flung off the side of the mountain. His heart hammered in his chest. No, no, no. He raised his hands to his head. Damn it. Just like when Mom died. The inability to act, to rescue, to save, ate at him like acid on an open wound. He couldn’t let this end badly, not like Mom. He had to get in there. He had to help Natalie. He glanced back down the mountain. The figures halted, as though they, too, had heard the screams, then he saw them pick up their pace.

He turned back to eye the bunker. He couldn’t get in there. Natalie was inside, being hurt, being frightened, and yet again he couldn’t do anything to help her, to save her.

He picked up a branch and hurled it at the cavity, growling as it sailed through the opening. The barrier didn’t stop that from entering.

A branch snapped behind him and he whirled. The first had arrived.

“You’re not welcome here,” the man said. He was brawny, broad-shouldered and muscular beneath his plaid shirt and grass-and mud-stained jeans. With a thick beard, a baseball cap and a brutal expression, he looked like a lumberjack spoiling for a fight. He raised a handgun and aimed it at Lucien. Human then. A shifter would just shift and a vampire would just come at him. Only humans kept their distance.

Lucien lengthened his fangs, growling at the threat the man presented. Natalie was inside and this fool was wasting his time. His eyes glowed with bloodlust. “Leave. Now.”

The man shook his head. “Nope. This is our mountain.” He cocked the gun and fired, and Lucien dodged the shot. The bullet lodged in the trunk of the tree behind him and he caught a brief glimpse of the carved base. A wooden bullet. He sneered as he turned to face the enemy who was already cocking the gun for another shot.

Lucien launched himself, changing angle at the last minute as the man withdrew a wooden stake and held it in a defensive stance. The man lashed out. Lucien ducked, punched him in the gut and then danced back. “Give it up,” he told the man. “I’m faster than you. Stronger. Give up and go back.”

The man shook his head, baring his teeth as he changed his grip and threw the stake at Lucien’s chest. Lucien twisted to the side, avoiding the weapon, then struck out with his feet, catching his opponent behind the knees and sending him crashing to the ground.

Lightning fast, Lucien raced behind him and caught him, one arm snaking around the man’s shoulders as he grasped his chin. “You made the wrong decision,” he whispered to the man. He dipped his fangs toward the man’s neck and smelled the verbena on him just in time. The man chuckled when he sensed Lucien’s hesitation.

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