Page 50 of Bound By Love
She nearly screamedno, but yelling at him wouldn’t help. She didn’t have time to look for her sword; it was beneath the feet of those surging around them.
Her fingers itched to reclaim her weapon, but first, she had to escape thisthing. Kirkau started pulling her closer, and she saw in those awful, sunken eyes that this would be the end for her.
It wasn’t the way he intended to kill her, as he’d planned to drag it out formuchlonger, but he would make sure she died, and now might be the only chance he got. With her heart pumping adrenaline through her system at an alarming rate, Caro unleashed everything she had on the beast.
She kicked at the demon and drove her knee into his belly. He grunted when she hit the area of his groin.
They must have some reproductive organs if they once bred with humans to create the vampire line, but she wasn’t sure if she hit them or if they were even outside the demon’s body. His dick could be retractable, which somehow made this monster worse.
She jerked against his hold until something broke in her wrist, and she bit her lip to keep from crying. Determined to break free, she kicked out again but didn’t make contact.
She was about to plunge her fingers into his eyes when a Savage grabbed her hair, yanked her head back, and seized her wrist. The foul-smelling thing leaned over her as it pulled her hand back, and its mouth rested against her throat.
“No!” Kirkau barked. “I’ll be the one to kill her.”
The Savage hesitated before reluctantly pulling away. Caro writhed against the hands lifting her from Kirkau and winced as they tore out her hair.
Like a puppet on a string, Kirkau rose in one fluid motion to stand before her. More Savages grasped her arms and pulled them out at her sides as they shoved her to her knees.
Her struggles increased as he approached, but the Savages wouldn’t release her. Caro gathered spit in her mouth; if it was the last thing she did, she would show this thing how little she cared about whatever it did to her.
When Kirkau stopped before her, she spit on him and tipped her head back to smile. He stared at the blood and saliva running down his cloak before lifting his eyes to hers again.
From beneath his hood, his fangs glinted as the monster smiled while raising his hand. His arm started to descend in a deadly arc that would knock her head off her shoulders.
Caro refused to flinch away as she tilted her chin up to meet the blow. But a second before Kirkau hit her, a sword pierced through his back and out his stomach. It sliced upward as whoever held the sword jerked Kirkau back a step.
The demon’s arm fell uselessly to his side, but the wind of it caressed her face. As the blade cleaved the demon in two, Kirkau released a sound she’d equate with an animal being skinned alive.
The ear-piercing sound rebounded off the walls and rose in pitch until it nearly deafened her. It also drew the attention of almost everyone in the cavern as Kirkau’s screech drowned out all other sounds.
Fights waged around her, but some stopped to watch, and everyone was aware of what was happening. A demon was dying. And not just any demon but the one Saber considered their leader.
Kirkau didn’t go quietly or alone, as the other demons took up his call until the horrible sound vibrated her bones and rattled her soul. It was the most awful thing she’d ever heard, and they seemed to have no intention of stopping.
Kirkau’s screech finally died off as flames burst from his mouth, erupted out of his eyeballs, and broke free of his skull. They consumed him until he was nothing more than a pile of ash falling before her and sticking to her face.
She blinked away the ash to discover Saber standing on the other side of where Kirkau once did. He held his sword in hand and had hers draped over his back.
As the screaming continued around them, he swung his sword across the Savages holding her. More ash rained down as her captors became nothing more than dust in the wind.
Free of those things, Caro pushed herself unsteadily to her feet and would have thrown herself into his arms, but more of their enemies were already coming at them.
Shrugging off her sword, Saber tossed it to her. “Are you okay to fight?”
Caro took stock of her broken fingers and wrist as she swung the sheath onto her back and pulled her sword free. Blood continued to drip from the holes in her neck, but they were healing. She could use some blood, but it would have to wait.
“I’m fine!” she called over the cacophony filling the cavern.
She longed to reach out to Saber and assure herself he was okay. Instead, they turned their backs to each other as the Savages approached.
CHAPTERFORTY
Fighting beside Saxon,Elyse fired the remaining rounds in her gun at the Savages crawling over the dead to get to them. As the screams of the demons continued to reverberate around her, she worked to shut them out while remaining focused on killing all those bent on destroying them.
Dead bodies littered the ground around them, yet more continued to come. She didn’t see any break in the wave and had lost sight of many of the Alliance members, but they had to run out of Savages eventually… didn’t they?
She wasn’t sure she’d like the answer to that question, so Elyse didn’t ponder it as, out of ammo, she released the gun. From the holster strapped around her waist, she pulled out a stake and dagger.
