Page 8 of The Shade of Things
The crowd shifted to reveal the one vampire I had hoped never to meet again, standing resplendent in a red leather dress and red stilettos, her dark red hair cascading in waves down her back.
Heart hammering, I grabbed Eli with a sweaty hand to haul ass, but the stubborn bastard stood firm.
“We aren’t leaving without speaking to Ian.”
Yeah, but at the cost of our own lives? Hard pass. Clearly he’d never dealt with a crowd of angry vampires.
Before I could leave the idiot to his fate and save myself so that Sadie still had one living parent, a vamp next to me got jostled and almost bowled me over.
My magic cloaking fell apart, leaving Eli and me in plain sight.
Laughing, Celeste rubbed her hands together. “Just when I thought this night couldn’t get any better.”
I attempted to back up, but we were penned in by vampires. Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide.
