whispered Gary. “Follow the plan. We need to keep them busy for a couple of hours till we hit the twenty-four-hour mark. I’ll give you the signal then. In the meantime, we’ll have our fun with them. Then ten days from now, we will have our own personal Vampire play toys.”
Vampire play toys. There wasn’t a shadow of a doubt.
“Excellent,” Kurt said. “Everything has to go right tonight. He was so angry with us because we didn’t take them back with us last night. We need to get them tonight, but first we have to find out if they told anyone anything about last night. Just follow my lead.”
“You got it,” said Gary.
“He” was so angry last night? Who’s “he”?
The airheads came shuffling in side by side. “Hi, guys, do you like our outfits? We dressed for you,” Bubbles said. She grabbed Gary by the arm and pulled him to the couch, snuggling up to him.
Trixie did the same with Kurt. “If you’d like us in something else,” she said, “we can show you all the stuff we have. Whatever you want. Do you like Catwoman?”
“You’re both perfect just like this, ladies. You look amazing. You’re so hot,” Kurt said to Trixie as he nuzzled her throat. “So beautiful.”
“Did you enjoy last night?” Gary was saying to Bubbles. “I couldn’t wait to see you again.”
“Yes.” Bubbles hissed the word as she pressed her breasts against Gary’s chest. “I loved it so much. I kept thinking about the Vampire look all day.” Her voice was husky, much different from the way she’d sounded earlier.
The Nymphs had suddenly transformed from birdbrains to sensual and seductive. It was like they had totally different personalities with these two males.
When I was about to lose my mind from boredom, the Vampires told the Nymphs they wanted to take them out. Trixie and Bubbles rushed off to their bedroom to change once again.
“Wish we could take them now,” Kurt said when the Nymphs were gone.
Gary nodded. “Yeah, but we have to wait.” He tilted his head. “Why did we get here so early?”
“So they don’t leave to see someone else,” Kurt said. “You know Nymphs. Their attention span is only as long as the length of time a male is with them.”
“True,” Gary said.
“We’ll take them back to the apartment and do it there.” Kurt grinned. “It’ll be fun. They look hot. Nothing like taking a hot Nymph and turning her.”
“These two take the cake for having fluff for brains,” Gary said with a laugh. “Can you just imagine what he will say?”
Kurt frowned. “Maybe it’s not such a good idea turning them.”
The Nymphs burst back into the living room, now dressed in tiny red dresses.
I dropped my glamour and gestured with one hand in the sign to take these Vampires down.
At the same time, I used my teeth to pull the pin from the garlic-and-holy-water grenade and lobbed it in front of the two Vampires. It fell to the floor and rattled across the wood.
Colin, Joshua, and Ice appeared.
The Vampires startled. The Nymphs screamed.
Immediately the Vampires recovered from their shock. The Nymphs did not.
Before the grenade could go off, the Vampire Kurt shifted into a Bengal tiger.
The other Vampire, Gary, transformed into a Doberman.
Both vicious, frightening creatures.
It didn’t matter. The grenade would do the trick.
Garlic and holy water exploded throughout the room.
My lungs burned from the strength of the garlic. My eyes would have watered if I’d had tear ducts.
The Doberman snarled and the tiger roared. They each shook it off as if the grenade had just been a nuisance.
A nuisance.
Ice in his white jaguar form gave a powerful cry, lunged, and took the tiger down. They landed in the middle of the coffee table. A tremendous crashing sound as soda cans and glass went flying.
“Get out,” I shouted at the Nymphs, who were just standing on one side of the room screaming. I was going to arrest them just for the annoying sounds they were making tonight. I owed them.
As the Nymphs ran through the front door and slammed it behind them, I summoned my elements.
Colin transformed into a smaller version of his Dragon form. He bellowed, his tail sweeping table lamps, pizza boxes, and lipstick off the glass-topped end tables, and then sent the tables themselves flying. They crashed against the walls, shattering.
The tiger clawed at Ice, whose white pelt was streaked red with blood. I’d never seen Ice injured in a fight before. The tiger was strong, stronger than any Shifter or