Chapter 76

The two remaining vampires gave him a wide berth, circling in an arc that shielded Jesse. The poor light kept the stranger’s features in shadow, but there was no hiding the tall, broad body or the stake dancing between his fingers.

Run. Run. Run. Why aren’t you running yet, you tosser? Go! He’s going to rip your throat out when he gets done with these two…More dust, this time close enough to Jesse to coat his face and get in his nose.One. Fuck.

“In case it’s not obvious…” Another vampire exploded in a blur of motion. “…I don’t share.”

But Jesse really was his father’s son, and he couldn’t step away from the carnage until it was over. Because he had never seen anything like this before in his life. Not once. And he had gone out in London with seasoned vampire hunters. He had certainly never seen a vampire so calmly and efficiently kill five of its own kind.

Then it was just the two of them, facing each other in the alley, with a mere yard between them.