Staked by Desire by Rose Wulf

Author:Rose Wulf
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, vampires, suspense, paranormal, pnr
Publisher: Evernight

Chapter Eight

It wasn’t that Adrian had never been hurt in front of her before. They’d been each other’s constant companions for over two months, and the majority of that time had been spent fighting multiple vampires at once. Really, this fight had been almost anticlimactic in comparison—with two exceptions. The fact that Troy Wilson had actually been there and taken part in the confrontation. And the fact that Adrian had gotten seriously wounded.

Kendall dropped Adrian’s armory bag to the floor after she and Hailey—mostly Hailey—got him settled on the couch in Hailey’s living room. Her heart was still racing, and he was still bleeding. She didn’t know what to do. He’d been hurt before, but not like this.

“Are you sure we shouldn’t take him to the hospital or something?” Hailey asked, stepping back into the room with a heavy towel and a shoebox sized tin. “I don’t know how much this stuff is going to help.” She indicated her armload.

“No, I … I don’t think so,” Kendall said, sinking to her knees beside the sofa. They couldn’t trust the local hospital, or clinic, or whatever the town even had. She didn’t know how far they’d have to go to get somewhere they could trust. Adrian had told her nearly at the beginning of their partnership that he didn’t like hospitals and didn’t like to go to them. She hadn’t thought she’d need to question that judgment.

“Kendall,” Hailey said, “one of those vampires took a bite out of him. My gauze wraps aren’t going to be enough for that.”

Bile burned up the back of Kendall’s throat as her gaze betrayed her and slipped back down to the wound she had a better view of now. Blood continued trickling out of his torso, further soaking his ruined shirt and the remnants of the coat around it. It had probably already seeped into the blanket they’d thrown haphazardly over the sofa before laying him down. His flesh was red and jagged, and if she looked too closely Kendall thought she could see actual muscle, the under-the-skin kind, as opposed to the photogenic kind. This is all my fault.

“It’s important to remember that most Slayers ultimately die in battle. It’s the single biggest hazard of their job.” Brianna’s words whispered, unbidden and unexpected, through Kendall’s mind. Kendall had been worried Adrian had been slain in the fight with Boris—a fight she couldn’t have anticipated—and been wracked with guilt. Brianna had spoken those words in an attempt to offer her comfort, before they’d learned that Adrian had survived.

But had he managed to survive a fight with an evil Original, just to die hunting a cowardly murderer?

Hailey settled a hand gingerly on her shoulder. “It’s probably best you don’t throw up on him,” she said.

Kendall sucked in a shaky breath and nodded.

“We have to do something,” Hailey said after a moment, her hand falling away. “Is there … someone you can call? Does he have friends, or backup, or something?”

Kendall licked her lips. She could call home.

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