Queen Takes Sunfires Book 2: A Their Vampire Queen novel by Joely Sue Burkhart

Author:Joely Sue Burkhart [Burkhart, Joely Sue]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joely Sue Burkhart
Published: 2021-02-16T18:00:00+00:00

13

Eivind

The seedy hotel where I’d tried to find temporary refuge for the woman I’d rescued in Chicago was a burned-out, still smoldering, shell. One whole wing had burned down to the concrete foundation with just a few blackened studs and cross supports still intact. Likely where the fire had started. The other wing was badly damaged, though the walls were mostly still intact.

Had the meth lab blown up like I suspected? Or had something else ignited those dangerous chemicals as a diversion? I wasn’t sure that I’d be able to tell. Maybe it didn’t matter in the end.

Something in my gut told me I needed to search. For what, I didn’t know. But it was important.

One thing I’d learned in my lonely existence was to always trust my wolf sense. If Detective Harris wasn’t with me, I’d simply shift into the wolf and explore. Not for the first time, I considered shoving the human out of the car at top speed to see how many times he’d bounce.

His damned cop eyes took one look at the destruction, and he laughed. “Let me guess. You spent a lovely night here with our mysterious lady?”

I grunted, hoping he’d take my response as disgust. “Not a night. A day. Remember? She’s scared of the daylight. And no, we were probably only here an hour or so. We were attacked.”

“Tell me.”

I told him about the room with no windows that she’d requested. How I’d returned to the room and found her sleeping. His eyes narrowed when I mentioned the scars that had healed so quickly while she slept. But his suspicion quickly turned to outright skepticism when I told him about the Soldiers of Light.

“I shot the one trying to come in the side door, and it didn’t even slow it down. Nothing seemed to hurt it, except for a shard of mirror that she flashed at it. Even then, it chased us back down the hallway, and I lost her temporarily in the smoke. She called their leader Aurelian.”

“What did these walking skeletons look like exactly?”

“Fucking dried old bones with nothing on them but armor.”

He rolled his eyes. “What kind of armor? Like what knights wore?”

I flashed back to the skeletons, kneeling as Karmen approached each one. “Roman, I think, though they were hard to see.”

Harris shook his head slowly. “Because of the smoke?”

“No, they’re super bright. My eyes kept watering. That shit hurt, man. It was nearly impossible to look straight at them. But I remember a shining silver chest plate with some kind of insignia on it, and a helmet with a fringe, but I couldn’t tell you what color it was. They all had swords, and some of them held large shields, but they were even brighter than the others. The metal was polished and so damned shiny it blinded me.”

I pulled back around behind the building and parked in the same spot I’d left the car before, though we faced the building this time. The broken window seemed to mock me.

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