I could tell Silver was confused. We were both immortal Olympians—me more so than her, but she could take most mortals without even trying.
“That’s an enthused elder beast, filled with Zeus’s will, unless I’m mistaken,” I explained quickly. “And she needs more of what we just got our hands on. Which means we need to run.”
23
SILVER
Iused to be irritated by Cas’s unperturbable confidence, bordering on indifference, but looking at his taut jaw as he rushed us out of the club, glancing over his shoulder at the feral naked woman who threw herself into the throng of partygoers, screaming, biting, long fingers clawing as she tried to beat her way out, I wish he was as relaxed as ever. His visible uneasiness was point-blank terrifying.
She wanted to get tous.
There were a good eighty people in the way, but they did their best to move out of her path or get out. It wouldn’t be long before her path was clear.
We stepped out into to the cool night, just as a man doubled over, groaning in a guttural, heart-wrenching cry.
Cas’s arm tightened around me. “Let’s get out of here,fast.”
Nodding, I set out at a run, but not without another glance back at the screaming man. I half expected him to start stripping too, but instead, he suddenly caught fire, engulfed in bright blue flames.
“What thefuck?” I shrieked, my voice drowned by the other screams around us.
“It’s intense magic. Not everyone can take it. Can you go any faster?” Cas demanded, though we’d passed the humans fleeing in all directions around us.
He really was worried.
Nodding, I made myself speed up, pushing my limbs past the usual speed I kept myself to. Cas caught up effortlessly, seeming to walk more than run next to me.
“There’s no way that chick is going to catch up with us, right?” I reasoned, pausing a few streets away.
The sounds seemed to come from far off.
Cas made no answer, his eyes scanning the darkness behind us.
“I mislike this,” he finally said. “The first time I saw her, she felt absolutely irrelevant. Just a simple mortal, with no power. After changing she was…”
He didn’t seem to know how to finish that sentence, but I didn’t need him to; I’d felt the exact same thing. She felt like a threat. Having grown up in Highvale, it was easy for me to differentiate stronger and weaker individuals.
“We ought to put distance between us and that thing. The box’s iron, but I’m not convinced she won’t sense the reserves.”
I nodded. “The hotel’s not far.”
“Too close,” Cas asserted. “We should get out of town.”
“We could get to the airport.” We had what we came from in any case, and our jet would be at Le Bourget in just a few hours. Sooner, if I asked Gideon to get it as fast as possible.
After a quick look at my phone screen, I cursed under my breath. “I was going to take the RER B to the airport, but we missed the last train. I’d say?—”
I didn’t finish, as Cas suddenly pushed me into the road, so fast I couldn’t even think to block. Eyes wide, I got off my ass with a wince, ready to yell at him, but the next instant, amotorcycle flew at great speed, crashing on the pavement right where we’d been standing.
At the end of the street, a pack of a dozen naked wild men and women ran towards us, growling like feral hounds, blue eyes blazing.
They were movingfast. I could barely see them.
Cas snatched my hand and set the rhythm this time, running at such a pace my legs were on fire within a minute.
The pack was catching up anyway.
Cas shoved the box under one elbow and grabbed me by the waist, flinging me over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. I yelped in surprise as he bent his knees and leaped into the sky.
