Demon's Vengeance The Complete - Jocelynn Drake Page 0,139
that I was up against an insane unicorn with way too much power at his fingertips, I was left struggling for an edge.
“To tell you the truth,” Vincent continued with a heavy sigh, “I wasn’t sure what I was going to do to generate enough energy. I thought I might blow up a few grade schools, but that wasn’t going to be enough. But you solved my problem! And I even get the wonderful pleasure of killing the child of a warlock while he watches.”
“And what about her?” I jerked my head toward the murderous woman, still unsure of how she fit into the picture with Vincent. If he’d found all he needed with Trixie and my child, then why would he ever need to work with a human? I’d always assumed that he’d need the help killing innocents to raise the necessary power. “You don’t need her.”
“My sweet little Missy?” Vincent cooed. He stepped over to the mad woman and pinched her cheek. “No, I guess I don’t need her, but then you don’t really need a pet. She amuses me and has such a brilliant talent for killing.” The unicorn gave me a little shrug as if embarrassed by his sentimental weakness. “And if I should ever need a little Death Magic to raise another army of zombies, Missy would be so happy kill some poor souls for me.”
“I’m happy to kill for Vinnie,” she purred.
“I’m sure you are,” I muttered, inwardly wishing that they’d just kill each other, but that wasn’t going to happen. Not for this happy couple. “What—”
Shots rang out, echoing through the massive warehouse and cutting off my question. I dropped to the ground, seeking some kind of cover when there was none near me. Lying flat on the dirty concrete, I chanced a look around to find Serah coming in from a side entrance with Gideon hot on her heels. The cavalry had arrived at last.
“Watch out! He’s a unicorn!” I shouted as I pushed off the ground and scurried over to Trixie. I never saw the warlock react to my words, but then Gideon was a master at hiding his emotions. He just kept his eyes his adversary, while Serah kept the other bitch busy.
Just a couple feet away from Trixie, a massive force slammed into my chest, knocking me away from her. My shoulder hit the concrete first and my right arm went numb for a second from the impact. Gritting my teeth, I pushed back to my feet, flexing my fingers against the pain as I quickly checked to make sure that my arm hadn’t been knocked out of its socket. My shoulder hurt like hell and my skull felt like it had been cracked, but my brains weren’t leaking out so I’d push on.
A quick assessment of the magic in the air revealed that Gideon was attempting to put a binding spell on Vincent to keep the fucker from killing one of us with magic. I was willing to be a whole lot less subtle. I already owed magic two years for killing; what did it matter if I tacked on a third? It took frighteningly little time to mentally call up a spell that would rip Vincent’s heart from his chest.
The reluctance I’d felt just a short time ago at Chang’s about killing the last unicorn? Gone. Evaporated in an instant when I saw Trixie held captive. Vincent was insane and he was killing innocent people to raise the dead. He’d threatened Trixie. Threatened my child. He was going to die.
With a rush of twisted magical energy, I threw it at the unicorn, ready to send him screaming into the next life, but it never reached him.
Vincent’s high-pitched laugh rose above the gunshots and the screaming. With a light wave of his hand, he pushed away the spell I’d created as if it were a butterfly fluttering about his head. “Did you really think you could get to me so easily?” he chuckled. “Your magic is useless.”
It looked like he was right, but there had to be a way. The Towers had destroyed nearly every dragon and unicorn on the planet. I didn’t have a freaking clue how they managed to do it, but I was willing to bet that they’d done it with magic, since they didn’t do a damn thing without it.
My gaze darted briefly to Serah as she fired at Missy. The killer was bleeding from several gunshot wounds but they weren’t slowing her down.