

Then he walked to her and lowered his muzzle. The wolf stared at her, his muscles locked. Perseus agents were in the background, easing close with guns ready. Another dark night, this one with a full moon. “When Perseus found out I hadn’t eliminated him, well, they weren’t pleased with me.” Those men will wear his marks for the rest of their days, but the girl didn’t get so much as a scratch from him.” They were ripping her shirt while she screamed and begged for them to stop.

The man stopped at the mouth of an alley. That he had to be put down to stop the killings.” Her breath rasped out. They told me all wolf shifters were psychotic. He walked down the road with the streetlights flickering over him. A man, thin, tall, with bright blond hair. I followed him for a solid month, and I never saw him even raise his voice to anyone.”Īn image flashed before him.

I watched first, and he-he wasn’t doing anything wrong. “But I never went for a straight kill on my targets. Told me he’d been cutting the throats of co-eds in the area.” Again, her voice was only in his head. “They sent me after a shifter about a year ago. Showing him the things she wanted him to see. He was in her mind, her words floating through his head, and she was guiding him. To her, I was just another monster.”Īs her voice filled his head, he realized then that Jana hadn’t spoken, not out loud anyway, from the moment she’d first whispered, “Come in …” “She didn’t understand that I was trying to help her. The fire surged up, consuming him as the girl cried and stared at Jana in horror.

The vampire whirled back, screaming, and lunged for her. The flames caught his legs but didn’t touch the girl. Didn’t stop slurping down the girl’s blood with deep, greedy gulps. Her head was twisted, her neck bared, and the vamp’s teeth were buried deep in her throat.īut he didn’t stop drinking. The girl-hell, she looked like she was about twelve. A vampire caged a girl up against a tree.
