He sighed and rolled his eyes at me. Then he rose to his knees.
“No no no no! Get back here. Give them back to me. I’ll do anything. Just give them back to me. I’m begging you, Damien, please. Take anything and just give them back to me.”
“Sorry, darling. They’re all you have to offer—”
Bang!
Crack!
Boom!
I felt myself falling. My back and head smashed against something hard and cold. A cloud of debris and smoke blinded me. I couldn’t see what was happening. I cried out, blinking to find Damien and the babies.
A body flew in the air and dropped on my left side. Then someone was standing over me, and I was scooped up and placed on the table.
I shivered. “Slasher. Oh my God, Slasher, you’re here.”
“We’re all here, baby.” He put his wrist in my mouth. His blood filled my mouth.
“Dasher? The babies?”
Fire blazed in the room. Two demons with horns and bodies made of flames flew up to the half-demolished ceiling and breathed fire everywhere. One of them punched the other until he was back on the floor. The heat was too much. I felt like I was melting.
Stunned, I felt Slasher carrying me and blurring us out to the backyard. Carter and Luke were there holding the babies.
My soul found its way back into me. Tears dropping in abundance, I grinned as they put the girls in my arms. The demons exploded out of the walls with a thrust. Reflexively, I pulled the babied to my chest and spun, sheltering them with my body. “Somebody please help Inferno finish the fucking devil. And where the fuck is my brother?”
A fiery portal manifested in the air. With a final shove, the demons went in and neither came out.
My heart thudded, and the babies cried. “What just happened?”
“They’re taking it outside?” Slasher exclaimed.
“You mean downstairs.” Mad Dog laughed.
I couldn’t believe his humor right now. “Where is Dasher?”
“Here, Reindeer.” Malcolm staggered from the hole in the back walls, blood all over his cut and jeans, his shirt torn with claw marks, his flesh oozing blood.
I gave the babies to Slasher and shuffled to my brother. “Why aren’t you healing? What’s happening?”
“Vetala grenade…” He held the side of his neck. “And an iridium splinter is still stuck in my neck. Once I get the splinter out, I’ll heal again. Fuck. The wolf that clawed my stomach reached the fucking bones. That vamp wasn’t alone. He had a mixed clan like ours at duty.” He hissed. “Enough with that. Let me see the little fuckers.”
Slasher approached both of us, eyes on the little things.
“Can we hold our babies now, Prez?” Luke asked.
Slasher twisted his lips. “How do you know they’re yours?”
“Hello? Twin shifter clan? Rings any bells?”
“For God’s sake.” I touched the babies’ beautiful, soft hair. “It doesn’t matter who the father is. What matters is that they are here with us. We’re all raising them together. Can we please find out what we’re doing to get Inferno back?”
CHAPTER 43
VIXEN
Luke grinned so widely I thought his mouth might split open. I had never seen a look like the one of pure joy he was wearing. Coming from Terror, it left me more surprised.
