Tall Dark & Heartless, Page 98
R. L. Mathewson
Page 98
"Wait!" he cried out as he ran over to the crying baby and picked her up. He rushed after his brother and knew that everything was going to be okay. Joshua was going to take care of everything, he thought with a shaky sigh as he carefully walked down the stairs.
He opened his mouth to tell his mother and Izzy that everything would be alright when Joshua walked past the women without so much as a glance and kept going until he was ripping the large front door off its hinges and letting it fly back, not caring where it landed. Seconds later it slammed Izzy in the hip, causing her to scream out in pain, before it slammed into the wall and came to a halt.
"Oh, no," he muttered as he watched the man that used to be his brother walk off and he knew that he'd just made everything worse.
*******
"Is she still bleeding?" she heard someone shout.
"Yes!" came the answer as scents and sounds finally managed to filter through her head as she struggled to open her eyes.
The scent of human, Sentinel and Pyte blood teased her senses as she opened her eyes and wondered if she was dreaming. For a moment she simply lay there and watched as Caine and the other Pyte male crouched down near a beautiful woman, with jet black hair and a flawless tan who was obviously pregnant and obviously in labor, scream as she gripped her stomach. She allowed her eyes to move over to the Sentinel, who only managed to kick her ass because she'd been weak at the moment, crouch by another, a much smaller, woman along with Kale Quinn, who looked ready to pull out his own hair as the small blonde beauty screamed. A much different cry caught her attention and she looked over to find a little boy, maybe twelve years old, holding a crying baby in his arms while he helplessly looked on.
One look around told her that they were in a very large, expensive home with the front door missing.
"I'm going to f**king kill him!" the Sentinel, was his name Chris? shouted as he looked over the blonde woman's side. She didn't have to ask to know that the woman was a Sentinel and probably his mate or that she was bleeding pretty badly.
"It hurts!" the woman cried out and Danni had no doubt that it did. She was still very new at this, but she was pretty sure that she could smell bone marrow. Something had done a lot of damage to the pregnant woman and judging by the look on Chris' face that someone was going to die a horrific death very shortly.
"He's dead," Kale growled out as he peered over Chris' shoulder to see the damage. His eyes flashed an intense silver as he forced a grim smile for the small woman and took her trembling hand into his.
"I'm sorry. . . . I'm so sorry," the boy choked out as he held the crying baby against him.
Deciding that she'd lounged around for long enough, she gave her head a good shake and rolled over, surprised that nothing hurt, but then again she could taste a faint taste of blood in her mouth and knew that Caine had fed her. That was good, it meant that she had enough energy to get this situation under control.
She got to her feet as she kept her eyes on the chaos in front of her. Honestly, people really needed to have contingency plans for this kind of thing, she thought as she stretched her back.
"Kid?" she said, startling the little boy, but thankfully getting his attention and giving him the distraction that he needed. "Are there any beds set up yet?" she asked, already noting a lack of personal effects, which meant that they either weren't into decor or they'd just moved in.
"Y-yes," he answered nervously, which was understandable since her shirt seemed to be covered in Caine's dried blood. Speaking of Caine, she looked over and met his worried eyes. Before she did something stupid like run over to him and throw herself into his arms and kiss him she focused her attention back on the boy who looked seconds away from crying.
"Good, you're my assistant," she said in a firm tone. "Give me the baby and go make sure there are clean sheets on the bed and then find me a first aid kit, clean towels and some needle and thread. When he didn't make any moves to listen to her she snapped at him. "Now!"
That got him moving. He nodded jerkily as he rushed over to her and placed the wailing child in her arms, looking relieved. As soon as the baby was out of his arms he was running to hopefully go do what she asked. She turned her attention to Caine and the other Pyte.
"Caine, the two of you need to take her to a bed and let her get comfortable. I'll be up in a minute to check on her," she said, moving her attention to the woman sobbing softly on the ground.
"Let's go," she heard Caine say and knew that the other Pyte was in agreement. Out of the corner of her eye she saw the two men carefully pick up the woman and in a second they had her flashed out of the room.
"If one of you gentlemen would be so kind as to hold this beautiful girl and maybe get her a bottle I'd be more than happy to have a look at the Sentinel," she said, smiling down at the baby as she checked the little girl's wound. It was a small cut, deep, but not deep enough to need stitches, which was a good thing because she'd never stitched up someone this young before. The drying blood on the girl's scalp was a bit frightening, but she knew from experience that head wounds always looked nastier than they really were.
"Please help her," the Sentinel said, his jaw set in a grim line as he looked down at his sobbing mate.
"Fine," Kale said, getting to his feet, "but I'm not leaving Izzy. "
"I just need you to hold her so that I can help her," Danni said, passing the baby over to large man who took the baby and held her as if she were the most precious thing in the world.
She walked over to the screaming woman and prepared herself for anything, but she hadn't been prepared for this. If she didn't lose her leg this woman would probably never be able to walk again. They were going to have to get her to a Sentinel doctor and soon.
"I'm going to have to close up that wound to slow the bleeding down and I'm going to need some of your blood," she said to the Sentinel, who looked like he could use a doctor as well, but this woman came first.
"You know what you're doing?" Chris asked as he pushed damp hair out of his mate's face.
"Yes," she said with absolutely no hesitation. She wasn't a doctor, but she had trained as a medic so that she could go out on more patrols with the Sentinels.
"Then save my mate and child," he said, looking very much like a man who would die without them and she didn't want to be the one to deliver the blow.
Chapter 49
Several days later. . . . . . . . .
"Don't do this, Master," Lucan ground out as his bound arms were given a vicious yank, further straining his muscles. A few feet away in the same position, Greg continued to cry even as he pissed himself.
"G-give me another chance!" Greg pleaded as the Master walked around him.
"I can't even begin to tell you how disappointed I am in you, Gregory. First, you screw up my plans for the Pyte and I would have probably been able to forgive that if you weren't such a lousy f**k," the Master said, chuckling as several minions and vampires joined in.
Greg opened his mouth, probably to promise to blow the Master, but the Master being the Master had already grown bored with the male. After his men found the human trying to sneak back into town they grabbed him and brought him here where the Master did things that turned even Lucan's stomach. He'd been about to walk out of the room when the human spilled the news that the Pyte was now in the hands of the Sentinels once again and the Master turned his fury on Lucan.
"Wait!" he cried out as he ran over to the crying baby and picked her up. He rushed after his brother and knew that everything was going to be okay. Joshua was going to take care of everything, he thought with a shaky sigh as he carefully walked down the stairs.
He opened his mouth to tell his mother and Izzy that everything would be alright when Joshua walked past the women without so much as a glance and kept going until he was ripping the large front door off its hinges and letting it fly back, not caring where it landed. Seconds later it slammed Izzy in the hip, causing her to scream out in pain, before it slammed into the wall and came to a halt.
"Oh, no," he muttered as he watched the man that used to be his brother walk off and he knew that he'd just made everything worse.
*******
"Is she still bleeding?" she heard someone shout.
"Yes!" came the answer as scents and sounds finally managed to filter through her head as she struggled to open her eyes.
The scent of human, Sentinel and Pyte blood teased her senses as she opened her eyes and wondered if she was dreaming. For a moment she simply lay there and watched as Caine and the other Pyte male crouched down near a beautiful woman, with jet black hair and a flawless tan who was obviously pregnant and obviously in labor, scream as she gripped her stomach. She allowed her eyes to move over to the Sentinel, who only managed to kick her ass because she'd been weak at the moment, crouch by another, a much smaller, woman along with Kale Quinn, who looked ready to pull out his own hair as the small blonde beauty screamed. A much different cry caught her attention and she looked over to find a little boy, maybe twelve years old, holding a crying baby in his arms while he helplessly looked on.
One look around told her that they were in a very large, expensive home with the front door missing.
"I'm going to f**king kill him!" the Sentinel, was his name Chris? shouted as he looked over the blonde woman's side. She didn't have to ask to know that the woman was a Sentinel and probably his mate or that she was bleeding pretty badly.
"It hurts!" the woman cried out and Danni had no doubt that it did. She was still very new at this, but she was pretty sure that she could smell bone marrow. Something had done a lot of damage to the pregnant woman and judging by the look on Chris' face that someone was going to die a horrific death very shortly.
"He's dead," Kale growled out as he peered over Chris' shoulder to see the damage. His eyes flashed an intense silver as he forced a grim smile for the small woman and took her trembling hand into his.
"I'm sorry. . . . I'm so sorry," the boy choked out as he held the crying baby against him.
Deciding that she'd lounged around for long enough, she gave her head a good shake and rolled over, surprised that nothing hurt, but then again she could taste a faint taste of blood in her mouth and knew that Caine had fed her. That was good, it meant that she had enough energy to get this situation under control.
She got to her feet as she kept her eyes on the chaos in front of her. Honestly, people really needed to have contingency plans for this kind of thing, she thought as she stretched her back.
"Kid?" she said, startling the little boy, but thankfully getting his attention and giving him the distraction that he needed. "Are there any beds set up yet?" she asked, already noting a lack of personal effects, which meant that they either weren't into decor or they'd just moved in.
"Y-yes," he answered nervously, which was understandable since her shirt seemed to be covered in Caine's dried blood. Speaking of Caine, she looked over and met his worried eyes. Before she did something stupid like run over to him and throw herself into his arms and kiss him she focused her attention back on the boy who looked seconds away from crying.
"Good, you're my assistant," she said in a firm tone. "Give me the baby and go make sure there are clean sheets on the bed and then find me a first aid kit, clean towels and some needle and thread. When he didn't make any moves to listen to her she snapped at him. "Now!"
That got him moving. He nodded jerkily as he rushed over to her and placed the wailing child in her arms, looking relieved. As soon as the baby was out of his arms he was running to hopefully go do what she asked. She turned her attention to Caine and the other Pyte.
"Caine, the two of you need to take her to a bed and let her get comfortable. I'll be up in a minute to check on her," she said, moving her attention to the woman sobbing softly on the ground.
"Let's go," she heard Caine say and knew that the other Pyte was in agreement. Out of the corner of her eye she saw the two men carefully pick up the woman and in a second they had her flashed out of the room.
"If one of you gentlemen would be so kind as to hold this beautiful girl and maybe get her a bottle I'd be more than happy to have a look at the Sentinel," she said, smiling down at the baby as she checked the little girl's wound. It was a small cut, deep, but not deep enough to need stitches, which was a good thing because she'd never stitched up someone this young before. The drying blood on the girl's scalp was a bit frightening, but she knew from experience that head wounds always looked nastier than they really were.
"Please help her," the Sentinel said, his jaw set in a grim line as he looked down at his sobbing mate.
"Fine," Kale said, getting to his feet, "but I'm not leaving Izzy. "
"I just need you to hold her so that I can help her," Danni said, passing the baby over to large man who took the baby and held her as if she were the most precious thing in the world.
She walked over to the screaming woman and prepared herself for anything, but she hadn't been prepared for this. If she didn't lose her leg this woman would probably never be able to walk again. They were going to have to get her to a Sentinel doctor and soon.
"I'm going to have to close up that wound to slow the bleeding down and I'm going to need some of your blood," she said to the Sentinel, who looked like he could use a doctor as well, but this woman came first.
"You know what you're doing?" Chris asked as he pushed damp hair out of his mate's face.
"Yes," she said with absolutely no hesitation. She wasn't a doctor, but she had trained as a medic so that she could go out on more patrols with the Sentinels.
"Then save my mate and child," he said, looking very much like a man who would die without them and she didn't want to be the one to deliver the blow.
Chapter 49
Several days later. . . . . . . . .
"Don't do this, Master," Lucan ground out as his bound arms were given a vicious yank, further straining his muscles. A few feet away in the same position, Greg continued to cry even as he pissed himself.
"G-give me another chance!" Greg pleaded as the Master walked around him.
"I can't even begin to tell you how disappointed I am in you, Gregory. First, you screw up my plans for the Pyte and I would have probably been able to forgive that if you weren't such a lousy f**k," the Master said, chuckling as several minions and vampires joined in.
Greg opened his mouth, probably to promise to blow the Master, but the Master being the Master had already grown bored with the male. After his men found the human trying to sneak back into town they grabbed him and brought him here where the Master did things that turned even Lucan's stomach. He'd been about to walk out of the room when the human spilled the news that the Pyte was now in the hands of the Sentinels once again and the Master turned his fury on Lucan.
