Dark Heir (JY 9) by Hunter Faith

Author:Hunter, Faith [Hunter, Faith]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Urban, Vampires, Contemporary, Paranormal, Fantasy, Fiction
ISBN: 9781101636220
Publisher: Roc
Published: 2015-04-07T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

By the Fluids of His Undeath

The next shots were overlaid, concussing and echoing. Half-deaf, I heard a muffled shout as I hit the floor, sliding, swiveling all at once. Only to see Juwan fall. Blood on both thighs.

In a leaping crouch I crossed the floor and shoved the guns away from the fallen man, checking him for additional wounds. Except for pinpricks of closed fang wounds on the skin at his jugular, there were none, but Juwan’s left leg had sustained arterial damage, and blood was spurting into the room. Eli dropped to the floor beside me and went to work, medical supplies appearing from pockets and pouches. He sliced open Juwan’s pants with a small blade and tore open a sterile package—the latest medical wonder, developed for battlefield injuries, injectable, foam, pill-like blocks, contained in a modified syringe. Still deaf, I dialed for help on my cell and held the phone to Eli’s head for him to handle. Fortunately, his headset had protected his hearing in one ear. Then, while he worked to stabilize Juwan, I gathered up all the unfired weapons, my gobag, the envelope addressed to Lachish, and all Eli’s extra ammo, and carried everything to the back fence, dropping them over and beneath a shrub, where it would be hard to spot them from any direction. Just in case.

Minutes later an ambulance and police were out front, probably called by nervous neighbors, and the primo had called a lawyer from Leo’s high-priced firm. The attorney was on the way, my partner was in handcuffs, in the back of a cop car, along with Derek’s driver, and the cops would soon want me at cop central for questioning. Because, yeah, we had one unconscious guy and one shot guy lying on the foyer floor, with evidence of multiple shots fired. But, ummm, we also had a crime scene with multiple bloodstained sites, and no record of police being called to address a vamp problem. How did I explain that? I couldn’t. I had guesses, and all of them might be wrong. After all, it looked like I’d been wrong about Derek and his driver being out to get me.

I caught Eli’s eyes through the unit’s side window, and he gave a single quick nod, off to the side, away from the ruckus. It was a tacit order for me to make our next appointment without him. It also meant that he had likely overheard someone saying I should be arrested too.

I frowned but nodded. I had given a preliminary statement to the cops, little good that it did, and if I stuck around, I’d be in cop central for hours while Joses/Joseph was still on the loose, with backup from some traitorous vamp at HQ. Pulling on Beast’s stealth abilities, I slid into the early shadows and along the house to the back. I leaped the low fence and picked up all the gear.

Crossing yards, courtyards, and streets, jumping fences, and weaving through the falling dark, I hoofed it out of the district, calling for a cab on the way.

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