Page 36 of Feeding Frenzy

Calliope was already up and through the door.

Ruby gripped onto Asher’s arm, sobbing.

“Please take me with you, he’ll kill me.” She sobbed. Asher gently shook her off, leaving her on the couch, curled into herself.

“We need to get back home,” Tobias said. I followed after him with Asher at my back. We wove through the maze until it spit us back out at the main bar floor. A vampire smashed face first into Tobias. Blood leaked from multiple lacerations on her body. That was the only look I had before she was gone.

Chaos erupted in the Saphire Lounge. Vampires worked to tamp down literal fires dispersed throughout. A male dressed in military grade garb, slammed his stake into the chest of a female vampire. Blood smacked my cheek from the exit wound at her back. By the sluggish movements, the male was human, and he’d missed her heart.

“My shirt,” Asher whined from next to me, his fingers rubbing frantically on the red stains. “This is limited edition.”

“Let’s get out of here.”

Tobias and I were on the same page. A similarly dressed figure flung a stake at Tobias with speed and skill that a human would never have achieved. Tobias caught it before it slid into his skin.

“Close call.” Asher smirked. Tobias tossed the stake at me and avoided another blow. We closed rank, placing ourselves back-to-back.

The attack came from vampires and humans. In the madness, they were visually indistinguishable until they fought. This attack was coordinated and meant to confuse.

A broadly built one came at me, slashing with impressive speed.

I slammed my hand through his chest and ripped out the heart. The attacker crumpled into dust. I flicked some of him off my fingers. In a swift crouch, I swiped the long metal pike he’d been stabbing at me. I rubbed off some of the blood from the tip with the bottom of my shirt. Nice and sleek.

“A little help here,” Asher shouted, ducking and weaving from the stakes being stabbed at him.

I slashed the pike-like weapon into one of his attacker’s throats. Blood burst from the carotid vein being punctured. That one was human.

Still, they kept coming and we hacked, slashed, and ripped.

“They keep spawning,” Asher huffed.

The drag of the coming day made my movements sluggish.

A stake sliced into Asher’s chest, missing his heart by a hair. He staggered and ripped the wood out. “Ow,” he huffed.

I plucked the attacker coming at his back. I grabbed the neck and squeezed until blood and meat burst under my hand.

“Shit,” Asher hissed and snapped the human’s neck he held.

He swayed and pitched over.

“Help,” Calliope screamed, making a beeline toward us.

“You best get out of here, it’s the end of this place,” I mused. She bunched the front of my shirt. I would have slapped her away if her eyes weren’t shifting side to side wildly. I extricated myself from her hold.

“No. Please you have to help me,” Calliope screamed. I scooped Asher up and tossed him over my shoulder.

“It’s over, Calliope. You lost the place,” I said, arranging Asher’s legs to the side so he wasn’t hitting my cock.

“No!” she screeched. I raised my eyebrow.

“Leave this place or you’ll end up dust.” Her eyelids were struggling to stay open. Soon she would give in to the sun as Asher had.

Tobias matched my stride. We stepped over bodies and limbs.

“Leave Jax a message letting him know we will not be home tonight,” I said to him. He rubbed his face.

“Done already,” he said, low. “We need cover.”

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