ONSET: To Serve and Protect by Glynn Stewart

Author:Glynn Stewart [Stewart, Glynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Faolan's Pen Publishing Inc.
Published: 2016-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

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Moments after the vampire was down, David was on his knees as the adrenaline left him and he gasped for breath, for oxygen, for the cool air of the river city. He slowly raised himself up despite the pain in his chest and met Devereux’s eyes. They were the eyes of a competent fighter who had seen the supernatural for years.

And those eyes stared at him in awe, shock, and fear. He knew how she felt. He felt it himself. Fear and shock at his own speed. He had no idea what had just happened, but he’d won. His body felt burnt and his chest hurt, yet he knew that he would be fine. What was he? What kind of monster could do that?

“You need to call in,” Devereux told him. “I can’t. We need a medic.”

Pain as well as shock marred her voice and shattered David’s shocked reverie. He hit his radio immediately.

“This is Agent White,” he said softly, expecting his voice to somehow show the fire that had just burned through his flesh, “Epsilon team got hit—hit hard. We need medical help now.” He paused. “Confirmed two vampires down,” he finished finally.

He then grabbed the med kit one of the team had been carrying and pushed past his own pain to perform first aid on the worst of the wounded. Epsilon team was hit bad, and David could not—would not let them die. He threw every ounce of strength he had left into trying to save them. Trying to save all of them.

He’d bound up the worst of the wounds and was trying to immobilize the fractured neck of one of the men the first vampire had taken out when a heavy hand suddenly settled on his shoulder.

“The medics are here,” Michael said gently. “Let them do their jobs.”

David slowly backed away as the white uniformed paramedic took over, setting the poor man’s neck in a professional immobilization collar. Michael’s hand remained on his shoulder, and David was impossibly grateful for its reassuring weight and strength.

“Do you know who that man was?” Michael asked, gesturing at the decapitated corpse nearby.

“He called himself Marcus Dresden,” David replied. The pain was gone, and only fear burned through him now. Fear of himself. Fear of what he’d just done.

“The Father Dresden himself,” Michael affirmed in a soft tone. “I’ve lost two entire teams to that bastard. He’d disable our best two or three men with darts loaded with aqueous silver and then annihilate the rest. Usually leaving the one or two most senior men alive. He founded the Familias in America, David.”

“What?!” David exclaimed, startled. He knew the vampire had been strong, had been fast—faster and as strong as David himself. He hadn’t known that the vampire had been that strong.

“You just took down a five hundred and eighty-something-year-old vampire who was Infected during the end of the Hundred Years’ War in the fifteenth century,” Michael told him gently. “A man who defeated me twice.”

David looked back at the body of the vampire, then looked around at the wounded from Epsilon squad.

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