Page 148 of Taming the Beasts
“Help!” Emma yelled.
I turned around. Her long bow had gotten caught in the bush she’d jumped into.Shit.I ran back and tried to help. But the more I pulled, the more tangled it got.
A high-pitched scream made me lift my head.
I watched as Kebe tripped out of the aisle she’d been sitting in. Grudge was walking toward her, a menacing look on his face.
“Stop!” she yelled.
But Grudge grabbed her arm.
“Stop it! I made you!”
Grudge ignored her as he pulled her closer, lowering his face to the side of her neck. It looked like he was just about to take a bite when one of my werecat boyfriends took a swipe at Grudge’s leg.
Grudge fell to the ground and screamed in pain.
No.But I only had a second to feel bad for Grudge, because he turned and tackled my boyfriend to the ground.
Fuck.
Another vampire tried to get to Kebe. I was pretty sure it was either Huxley or Ace that stopped the guy this time. Because he looked almost identical to the werecat that had stopped the first attacker. He snarled and scared a few more vampires away. But then two vampires lunged at him at the same time, knocking him onto his side.
Titan growled at the top of his lungs and ran toward Huxley and Ace. I knew it was him because he was the biggest and most ferocious of the five.
Blood splattered across the side of my face as a Ray bit into a wedding guest just a few feet away.
“Zoey, help me!” Emma shrieked.
The bow was attached to her dress. I tried to tug it off, but I couldn’t figure out how to remove it or how to get her untangled.
Screw it.“We’re losing the dress.” I unzipped the back of her dress as I kicked off my shoes. We were getting the hell out of here.
Emma cursed under her breath as she fell out of the bushes in just her lingerie. She kicked off her shoes too.
More blood splattered this way, hitting Emma this time. I was glad she didn’t scream. It would have just made Ray aware of us.
I stared at the unfortunate person that had tried to run past Ray next. Luckily Ray was currently satisfied with his new victim. I didn’t think that was how you changed someone into a vampire. There was no way that guy was living through veins in his neck being pulled out of his flesh.
It looked like Emma was about to say something, so I slapped my hand over her mouth. I put my finger to my lips and shook my head.
She nodded.
If we were going to live, we needed to be quiet and somehow sneak out of here unnoticed. I dropped my hand from her mouth and grabbed her hand. We both started running as fast as we could. At first it was nothing but soft grass under our bare feet. But then we reached the trees and our feet started crunching on the fall leaves.
I turned to look over my shoulder. I didn’t see anyone following us. But I did see Titan on his hind legs, trying to swat away vampires. He fell backward.
Emma squeezed my hand, pulling my attention back to our escape.
I cringed at the crunchy leaves. But we somehow made it out of the town square unscathed. Main Street was completely deserted since we’d invited everyone to the wedding. And the screams of agony behind us made it seem like we were in the maze at the Fall Festival all over again.
Two people had died in that maze.
The death count here seemed significantly higher. Unless the whole town was slowly changing into vampires. I honestly wasn’t sure what was worse. I think I was feeling lightheaded from the sight of all that blood.
“I knew Kebe was a lying whore,” Emma said.
She didn’t usually use such foul language. And for some reason I laughed. Once I started, I couldn’t seem to stop. I kept laughing all the way up the bank steps.
