The Ninja Vampire's Girl by Michele Hauf

Author:Michele Hauf
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

Five

Again the halo burst through a window, spinning like an insane 33 1/3 rpm flung off the turntable. It reached the back of the warehouse, and spun out through the window.

Zane lunged a look through the window, and managed to dodge the return path of the deadly thing.

Now I got it. Granny had told my sister and I that the halo always returned to the thrower. She'd forgotten to mention the part that the thrower must be the original owner. We wouldn't be in this situation if I'd known that.

My ear burned but I resisted touching it. I didn't want to know how badly I'd been hurt, but suspected it was just a nick.

I shuffled against a wall, my hand slipping on the bits of crumbled Sheetrock and rubble. I wasn't about to get in the way. I had a ninja vampire to protect me.

A flash of silver caught my attention. The vampire swung the chain at his side, the brilliant blade catching the moonlight like a beacon. It had something to do with the scar on his face, I guessed. A battle prize won for the price of a devastating wound?

"Watch out, love!"

I ducked to the floor, grinning ear to ear, because I foolishly believed he meant it when he called me love. It was an endearment, nothing more. I think the heady rush of danger, adrenaline and blood loss was making me a little loopy. If not fatally attracted to the baddest of the bad.

Another window crashed. Glass shards rained over my back. The chain swooshed overhead. And the clink of metal against metal. He'd snagged the halo!

I wanted to jump up and hug him, slobber him with kisses and congratulate him on being the hero—

"Don't move," he commanded.

—or not.

His boots cracked over the glass. His fingers moved over my back, carefully removing the shards and brushing through my hair and over my skin. "Okay, you can stand now."

"You got it." I hugged him, and he allowed it. It wasn't a return hug, I knew that much. He was just letting it happen. He really believed the monster bit. Poor guy. "You got what you wanted."

He sighed, and pushed me from his embrace. "Not quite yet."

We eyed the warehouse through the insistent downpour. The angel stood at the broken window. Zane waved the halo mockingly, which earned us a nasty gesture I didn't think angels were allowed to perform.

Noting my surprise, Zane said, "The Fallen are not like the angels you believe in, love. Nothing fluffy or divine about them. This is yours." He handed me the halo. "Now that he's without a weapon, I can go after him."

He swung up the chain and grabbed the blade. "Got this pretty slicer from a Sinistari demon. The tip is coated in some kind of angel poison. It's the only thing that'll kill a Fallen. Gotta shove it up into his glass heart, though, which means I'll have to get real close. Wish me luck."

"Wait." I leaned in and kissed the scar cutting his cheek.

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