“Pone, domine mi,”Mister says as he steps up to Xeraphine. She shifts her gaze down to him, her eyes completely consumed by darkness, and while her arms are black as they are, it hadn’t taken all of her over. Her veins are protruding and they, too, are the abyss that is her Amoro.“Vivit, hoc est quod volebas.”
“Nodus hic mortalis nobis nocuit!”When Xera screams in Latin, my eyes widen in shock. From my understanding, she doesn’t know that dialect, and she’s never practiced it. Like nearly every other foreign tongue besides the common language, it was lost in the war.
Could this be her Amoro?
“He did,”Mister answers her, then continues his path up beside her. He doesn’t fear her, and while I don’t either, this isn’t my time to intervene.
“Mittam eum in Void!”Her cadence is distorted, and I know it’s not my girl speaking. She’s always talked about losing control, and now I seeexactly what she meant.
“He will linger in the Void when he dies later. Si mortuus est, non satiaberis.”Mister moves in and out of Latin, and I take a few steps in her direction.
It’s then she looks up to me, and I smile at her. “You’ll be happier torturing him, little demon, but I understand the impulse.”
Her chest rises as Lars squeaks in discomfort. Then comes the loud thump of him hitting the ground, followed by her nodding her head. Not a single argument like she had with Mister.
Hah,take that, feline.
I think she’s going to come to me, but instead she lands a kick right into Lars’s stomach, causing him to scream out in agonizing pain. Iknowthat it had to hurt, because she did not hold back.
The wings at her back fall to liquid as she rears back another kick and sends him flying across the eight lane street.
“Doesn’t mean I can’t hurt you right now.”
She stalks toward him, and as Lars attempts to grab at the vehicle he slammed against, his hand slips on all the blood smeared across it.
“X-Xeraphine, please?—”
I laugh alongside my girl who approaches him, popping her neck and cracking her fingers.
“You told me you enjoy pain, Lars.”
I shift my gaze to the bastard only to see he wears a crooked smile on his face. It’s sudden, and when he laughs, my eyebrows furrow in confusion. The fear and distress I’d just seen in him melted away, like her blood wings had.
“You should just kill me,baby” —oh,fuckno—“because any touch by you will be the Vayl’s light.”
“Sicko!” Sydni spits.
Then it’s Xera’s turn to laugh. “Karma is a real bitch, because I would love to use my own fingers to remove your flesh, piece by piece, but I guess I’ll just have to watch.”
In a swift motion, she grabs hold of the prone Lars and begins dragging him back to us. Her arms are still consumed by her Amoro, visible now that her sleeves are torn off, but her eyes have returned to their beautiful silver hue. She stops right in front of Sydni, and her princess stares up at her best friend in stunned silence.
“What’re you doing?!” he shouts, attempting to stand and maybe run, but she’s got him tight in her grip.
“Syd,” Xera says, thrusting Lars on his knees in front of her. “He is one of the reasons you’re a Vampire now, and you alreadyknowthe despicable things he did to me.” The smile that crosses not only my girl’s face, but my butterfly’s, has my cock fighting against my zipper. “Show me that violence, princess.”
I know that Syd hasn’t fought more than the couple times since becoming a Vampire, but the punch she lands square into Lars’s nose was made with precision. The loud crunch of bone breaking sends a shiver down even my spine.
“Asshole!” She grabs at the collar of his shirt, and hits him again beforehe can fall back. “You’ll fucking pay for what you did to Phiny and me!”
The Shifter’s head turns, and she goes in for another, and then another. He went quiet after the second hit, but he’s alive and awake, I just assume he’s in too much pain to actually scream. He’s whimpering, but nothing more than that.
It takes Xera leaning forward and stopping Syd from actually killing Lars for her to stop.
When she looks at me, she gives me the acknowledgement of,“He’ll be yours soon”.
She promised if this were to be the outcome, that we were successful in getting him, I could have my time with him. I have his mother’s heart still in Alaric’s freezer to feed to him.
I give her a wink, and take a deep breath. “Kayn,” I call to my friend who takes a step to me.
