Page 31 of Guarding the Rock Star
“Stop right where you are!” I ordered, using my vampire speed to place my body between them.
Monica skidded to a stop, her hand slipping into the pocket of her chef’s jacket. I expected her to pull out a knife or a gun, instead she brandished a wooden crucifix.
“Back, creature of the devil!” she shrieked. “Be gone!”
With a sigh I pulled the crucifix from her hand. I released my fangs and made a hissing noise that made her scream in fear.
“This isn’t a movie,” I told her calmly as I rolled the crucifix between my palms. “I’m not going to turn to dust from this piece of wood.”
“How do you kill a vampire then if the sun and crucifixes don’t work?” Tasha asked me curiously as the noise died down. “I haven’t asked you too much about the vampire thing.”
“Fire, bullets, pretty much the same way you kill humans except we don’t get diseases like cancer.”
“Hmm.”
“Are you planning to kill me, Princess?”
“Nah, I’m planning to do this.”
Tasha strode across the room and pulled me into her arms, giving me a hard kiss. When we pulled apart, the bears had zip tied Monica’s hands and feet and were working on Mark’s, who was still unconscious.
“We didn’t get to kill anybody today,” Yuri said glumly as he stared at the two trussed up humans laying on the floor.
“Maybe next time,” I said.
Just then my team from Sapphic Security came racing in, Angie in the lead. She looked around, seeing the two siblings restrained, and sighed.
“I’m glad I left my mate’s bed for nothing.”
“Report,” Lois barked, rushing in next.
I looked at Tasha. “Why don’t you start?”
She stepped a little closer to me and I couldn’t help but slide my arm around her waist. When she relaxed into my side, I felt a jolt of happiness.
“I was standing in the cabin watching you guys leave and I guess Mark hit me on the head because the next thing I knew, I was waking up in the basement with a headache.”
“What happened when you woke up?” Lois asked.
“Monica came downstairs to bring me food. I overpowered her then came up here to kick Mark’s ass,” she said proudly. “Nobody kidnaps Tasha Blue against her will.”
Lois’s eyes bulged out of her head. “Wait? You did this?” she asked, nodding towards where Mark was still unconscious on the floor. “I assumed it was a bear.”
“She gave him a hard kick to the back of the knee, then when he dropped to the floor she hit him with a roundhouse kick to the temple,” I said proudly.
“Wow, that’s impressive. You’re talented and a badass.”
I’d never heard Lois be so positive towards someone before, including when the team stopped a terrorist attack on Los Angeles. When I rolled my eyes at my boss, she gave me a glare that would peel off paint.
“And what did you do, Diaz? Besides ignore my direct orders to wait for back-up?”
“Tasha had it under control when we got in,” I said. “But I was able to dispel some vampire myths while I was here.”
Lois rolled her eyes. “Okay, let’s get these two to the cops. Diaz, I expect a full report on my desk in the morning.”
“Roger that.”
I met Tasha’s eyes and she stared at me for a long, heated moment. “Can someone give us a ride back to Tasha’s place?”
