I grabbed his knees. “You weren’t dying?”
The coven wailed around me as the shades attacked and hissed. This would be a bloodbath.
“But they are,” he added, moving into a crouch.
“You’re not weakened?” I asked, worried out of my mind.
He shook his head, leaning one hand on the car. “Give me a minute, though.”
A body rolled across the road, hitting the curb close to the car. The man’s throat was torn out, blood gushing across the asphalt, flowing into a drain beside his head.
Shit.
“We’re coming for you, Sunshine One!” the shades cried.
Was that so?
“Wait here,” I told Ollie, breaking cover.
“Sputter!” Tony roared.
A bolt of white magic struck me in the chest. I fell onto my butt, spotting Tony hiding behind a car on the opposite side of the road, giving me away.
I rolled back into cover, trying to use my power.
It, well, sputtered. I shook my hands, sparks spitting but not igniting.
He’d infected me with his new magic yet again.
I wasn’t standing for this.
“Fucker!” I spat, rage my closest bedfellow again.
Ollie said something, but I didn’t hear him. The furious throbbing of my pulse thundered in my ears, the crimson mist falling like a veil. In that moment, I lived in vengeance. I only saw Tony, my soul thirsty for his end.
With a quick test of my bangle, which did work, I ran into the fray.
“Isaac! Wait!” Ollie called after me.
I ignored him, shutting my mind down to all concerns, to every single emotion. I latched onto the determination to exterminate my ex.
“Help us!” a man bellowed in my face before a shade grabbed him by the neck and snapped it.
The shade then turned its scarlet gaze to me.
“Freeze!” The spell only slowed the fuckhead down for a moment, giving me enough time to hide behind a blue car.
Ollie’s a vampire…my brain offered, breaking my momentum.
Nice of it to be so helpful. I wanted to hold onto my sanity, not get myself tangled up in this sticky web.
At least not out on the field.
My energy took another wobble as another thought hit me.
Help these witches? Seriously? After conspiring with Tony? No way. Their right to my protection went down the toilet with the most rancid of shits. Whyshould I do anything to save their lives? Oh, what, because of my calling it meant I had to play the hero, saving everyone and anyone I could, no matter what?
I’d rather swallow battery acid than save these people.
