you pulled him to you before. With your mind, with your magic,” he said.
“I, I, I don’t know how I did that.”
Hansen finally broke his gaze from the window and looked at her, “You needed him, Tess. You needed him desperately and that need pulled him to you,” his gaze returned to the window as he continued, “You need him to protect you now because there’s no way I can fight off eight wolves by myself. We’re as good as dead if he doesn’t come now.”
“E,e,e,eight?” Tess mumbled as her heart began racing in her chest. Terrified, she instinctively called out to Colton in her mind to come and save her, to keep her safe as he had been doing since she got here.
“At least eight, there could be more farther back in the woods,” Hansen whispered
“Oh God,” Tess groaned.
A rat scurried down the opposite wall of the dank alley as Colton drank from the vein of the inebriated man in his grasp. The man’s arms hung limply at his sides as the hypnotic trance of the feeding took hold of him. Suddenly both Colton and the man were shoved, hard, into the wall behind them. Colton quickly released his fangs, licked the wounds to close them then shoved the man through the door, back into the dimly lit bar that he had come from to have his cigarette. This time Colton didn’t need to look around to try to find out who had shoved him. He had felt this twice before and knew it now. This was Tess. She was in danger and she needed him, she needed him now. Without hesitation, he jumped into the sky and took flight – something he very rarely did for fear of being seen. But it was faster than running – and it would give him the element of surprise over the wolves. He covered the distance home in under two minutes then he circled, silently, over his home, surveying the area and assessing the situation. His sharp vision picked up at least a dozen wolves slowly approaching his home, moving very slowly so that they didn’t trigger the motion sensors. Clever little bastards, Colton thought. Well, we just can’t have that he thought as he grabbed the tails of his overcoat and began spinning in a circle – creating a mini-tornado. As he dropped lower in the sky, the wind began picking up things off of the ground: chairs, lawn ornaments, leaves, branches, and eventually, dogs. There were a few yelps as they were flung through the air and then came into contact, hard contact with large objects: trees or the side of his house. As this began outside, Hansen had sprung into action inside by moving Tess down to the basement and into the safe room. Nobody could penetrate the safe room’s steel door or break the code on the lock. And only two people knew the code - Colton and Hansen – or had the fingerprints or retina scans necessary to access the code key. Tess only had a few minutes to marvel at the technology and complete supply of necessities in the room designed to keep human, life-sucker or vampire alive for months before she heard the door unlock and watched as it slowly slid open – revealing Colton, out of breath but otherwise unharmed, on the other side.
“Are you two okay?” he gasped as his hand reached towards Tess. She reached her shaking hand out to reach his. He clasped it and quickly pulled her into his arms, hugging her tight and kissing her forehead.
“Are, are they gone?” Tess stammered.
“For now. But they obviously know that you’re here. This was an all-out attack. I’m sure that they will be back. We’ll need to prepare,” he said as he looked over Tess’ head at Hansen.
Hansen nodded and moved past them towards the other side of the basement. Tess watched as he stopped in front of the back wall, near a picture. He pulled open the picture, revealing an electronic keypad behind it. He punched in a code, put his face near the retina scanner then stepped back as the wall shifted, opening to reveal a large room filled with every kind of weapon that you could think of – and some that probably hadn’t even been heard of yet.
“Holy shit! I feel like I’m in the bat cave,” Tess mumbled.
Colton chuckled as he kissed her forehead and pulled her towards the weapons room, “When you’ve been around as