Blood Cull by John Conroe

Author:John Conroe [Conroe, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: aliens, fantasy, SF, witches
Amazon: B0BH3KHXFX
Published: 2022-10-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

Present day

We stepped from the battlefield directly into the tower’s security suite. Tanya, Chris, and Arkady were waiting for us, along with Chris’s grandfather and Elder Senka.

“What’s up?” I asked as I stepped through last and closed the portal behind me.

“Good question,” Tanya said, her expression tight, lips in a straight line, head tilted as she regarded me. By reflex, my shields went up around us. “You headed into a battle zone without even telling us,” she said.

Beside me, I could just about feel Nika’s tension, which told me that Tanya was seriously pissed.

“Yeah, everybody seemed to have forgotten the little fact that Omega was defending a nuclear arms bunker. It seemed prudent to rush over and reinforce him.”

“But not prudent to tell us?” Chris said. He too looked angry.

“To tell you the truth, I never thought about it. Omega asked us, a second time, for help, and you all were working, so we rushed over and dealt with it. I guess I assumed he would tell you.”

“Oh, he did, but you were already gone by the time we heard,” Tanya said.

“Okay. So, I shouldn’t have assumed when he would tell you,” I said.

“We shouldn’t have assumed,” Lydia said, earning herself a glare from Tanya.

“Yes, because you all answer to me,” Tanya said, looking at the vampires and the three security guys. “It’s one thing for this crew to go haring off, another thing completely for the five of you.”

“We are a team,” Nika said. “We respond as needed.”

“What do you mean, exactly, by this crew?” Stacia asked.

A flash of something like worry washed over Nika’s face and she opened her mouth, but Tanya held up a hand to forestall her words, keeping her eyes on Stacia.

“Your recent track record is rather… erratic. I guess that’s the kindest word I can use,” Tanya replied.

“Whoa,” I said. “Erratic? You have thoughts regarding our actions in the last month? Because this is the first that I’ve heard of them.”

“Tanya,” Nika said warningly.

“No, Nika, I will speak my mind, as I should have before,” the young vampire queen said. “You left this tower once before without telling a soul and ended up facing worldwide outrage, which, by the way, is worse tonight than it was yesterday.”

I took a physical step back. Nika whipped around to look at me, but I was laser focused on the power couple. “Chris, you have anything to say or add?” I asked.

“You went off and spent a month without a word, conducting a bloodbath,” he said.

“Really?” Stacia asked, her voice rising. Her pack instantly tensed up, which caused Tanya, Chris, and Arkady to straighten up as well.

“You were there, in the courtroom,” I said. “You saw Earth. You heard her. Would you rather we allowed all mankind to perish?”

“And speaking of bloodbaths, didn’t you personally murder almost eight hundred Loki’s Spawn?” Stacia asked.

Tanya twitched, but that was all. Then she twitched harder, trying to move her feet. Instantly, she turned to me. “Release me now!”

“You were about to attack.

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