The Slayer's Reverse Harem by Holly Ryan

Author:Holly Ryan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vampire slayer, vampire reverse harem, vampire suspense, paranormal reverse harem, paranormal romance
Publisher: Holly Ryan
Published: 2018-10-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

We started down the stairs, me and my new furry companion, and I gathered all my weapons that belonged to me. As we passed Detective Blake Friday, our feet splashed in a tinged-black pool of blood around him. The ink from his tattoos, I realized. Maybe he’d spelled them on himself with Paul’s magic to make himself look like a cool Brotherhood member or whatever.

Cleo paused at the bottom of the stairs, eyeing the sea of broken crystals with a hell-no face.

“How much do you weigh?” I asked. “Thirty, thirty-five pounds?”

She glanced up at me and then away. If she was anything like me, she was likely regretting all that apple pie. Could I even lift her? I couldn’t even stand up straight without help from the banister. But we weren’t getting out of here unless we went forward.

I bent over, wrapped my arms around her belly, and heaved. “Whoa. More than thirty-five.”

She let out a low growl, but she didn’t protest any more than that when I adjusted my grip and tried again. She dangled precariously, her hind legs skimming over the broken chandelier that surely would have hurt her paws, but good enough, because I could no longer stand up. I hunchbacked it across the crystal sea to the front door and cracked it open enough to let her out safely. Heavy footsteps pounded outside as I turned to get the book behind the potted plant.

“Slayer,” Jacek called, his voice panicked. “Why are you a dog now?”

I reappeared in the doorway, propping myself against the frame, book and weapons in hand. “I’m not.”

“Thank fuck.” He caught me around the middle as I tipped face-first into the porch. “Are you all right? What happened?”

“The Senate... They’re all dead.”

That truth hit me all over again, and the ramifications of that just about dropped me to my knees. I was it. The last slayer, because there was no one else to choose a new one.

“Belle!” Sawyer blurred to my other side to help keep me upright. Soot and grit painted his bronze complexion, making him look like he’d just stepped out of a warzone. Jacek too. “We have to go. We have to go right now.”

The alarm in his voice stripped me to my last nerve. Sawyer never got scared. The trapdoor had likely opened, but something else must’ve happened too. And it was then I realized who was missing.

“Where’s Eddie?” The shrillness in my voice sliced through the quiet darkness.

“Shh.”Jacek stroked my blood-slicked head. “We’ll explain, but we have to go back first.”

Panic solidified in my lungs, threatening to block everything else out. Cleo, a few steps ahead of us, trotted back to nudge her warm body between Jacek and me, then between Sawyer and me, as if she thought she could provide better comfort. All of them could. I needed all I could get.

Once we were off the porch, I raised Night’s Fall into the air as high as my rattling ribs would allow. But before I could say anything, an animalistic growl sounded from behind us.

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