Wild and Free (The Three #3)(189)

“Good luck,” Poncho said softly.

Gregor slid his eyes to the man and nodded.

The next instant, he was in hell.

*

Somewhere in a Café in Nevada

“Not good, not good, not good,” one man chanted.

“Get ’im! Fuck ’im up! Yes!” another one shouted.

“To your back!” Naomi screamed, then moaned, “Thank God.”

“No! Yes! No! Yes!” a woman cried.

“Get up, guy, get up, guy, get up,” a waitress whispered, eyes on the fallen Wei, his body lifeless amongst the carnage on-screen.

“Shit!” a man boomed. “They got that female wolf!”

*

Delilah

With a frightening yelp, Sonia as wolf slid on her side across the Tarmac, and every inch of my skin prickled to see her coat matted in blood, claw and teeth marks everywhere.

The next second, the wolf that pounced on her was grabbed by the throat and thrown through the air.

But he left something behind.

The gore of his gullet in Callum’s jowls.

Callum tossed it aside with a shake of his head and nosed her. She shook her head and got to her paws.

Then he nosed her firmly in our circle and turned toward an attacker.

I caught all this before I felt movement close beside me.

After thinking how I could ever see the whip of action to make my play, somehow, the action around me had come into focus.

Vivid focus.

Using it, I jumped on the back of a vampire who was all over Xun. He twisted to throw me off. With experience with Abel hauling me around, I held on with everything I had. Calling for more, I curved my hand around his jaw and yanked back.

I didn’t get him very far, but I got him far enough for Xun to shove the jagged end of the mailbox pole straight into his throat. He twisted and slashed it to the side, opening a gaping wound, blood spurting.

The vampire fell to his knees.

I jumped off and kicked him in the head so he fell to his side.

Xun lifted the pole over his head and bore it down, hacking into his neck.

“Back!” Xun grunted, still hacking. “Now, Lilah!”

I backed into Leah.

“Babe, Gregor’s here,” she told me, grasping my hand.

I didn’t see him.

What I saw was that our guys now had weapons.

Gregor must have brought them.

It didn’t matter.

Wei was down. By the looks of him, I was sure he was dead.

I’d seen Cain appear and he was sliced to shit, looking like he was barely standing.

I’d lost track of Jezza and Flo.

Ruby was down, like Wei, unmoving.

We were losing.

All was going to be lost.

Standing in a sea of bodies, drenched in blood, we were going down.

*

In a Convenience Store Somewhere in Florida

The crowd was larger.

They didn’t realize it, not a one of them, but they were all holding hands.

They were silent.

All their gazes were locked to the screen.

*

Delilah

“No,” I whispered. “No!” I screamed.

Sonia barked. It sounded like she was trying to say something, but I didn’t speak wolf.

“Fuck this,” Leah hissed.

Bending down, she pulled a sword from a fallen, headless vampire’s hand and I blinked when, fast as lightning, she entered the fight.

It was then I heard an indistinct roar of fury and I looked that way to see Lucien had appeared.

The sound was coming from him.

Then he moved, hacking his way to where his bride was fighting.

I heard a whiz and a clash and I whipped around.

Shit! I was nearly taken out by a vampire sword.

That vampire was now headless, and Ursula, who saved my ass, turned and winked at me before she shot away.

I had no time to watch. Chen was fighting a golem.

Head down, I charged, barreling into the giant headfirst, agony shooting down my back but catching him off guard, allowing Chen to hack off his hand.

“Come on, blue light, come on, blue light, come on!” I cried, lifting, twisting, and hauling up my knee hard, catching him right in the golem family jewels I couldn’t understand why he had, considering he tore off flesh to make babies.

Apparently, it was a good target.

He grunted, his remaining hand going between his legs.

Chen hacked off his head.

I stepped back, looking for what I could do to help next, seeing Leah, shit-hot, moving at almost a blur of speed, using all Xun, Wei, and Chen had taught us (and then some), kicking major bad guy ass side by side with her husband. They were working as a team, weirdly in tandem like they were synced.

Then Chen took off the golem’s leg at his knee and he teetered before crashing to the ground.

That was when I saw we had new allies.

Surprising ones.

Dogs.

And cats.

And rats.

And snakes.

And f*cking bunnies.

They were everywhere.

They couldn’t do much.

But considering there were hundreds of them, and they all were straight up pissed and attacking the bad guys, they sure as hell were distracting.

Creating opening after opening for the small army of The Three to deliver devastation.

*

In an Apartment Somewhere in Washington DC