Gypsy Truths (All The Pretty Monsters #6)- Kristy Cunning Page 0,120

the Van Helsing’s silver to attack and cover its manipulator,” he goes on. “It can only be undone with blood magic. We’ll have to take him with us. It’s not safe to stand around here. Not to mention his future wife is currently taking another beating from that crazy fucking bitch.”

“Clever old fella, aren’t you?” Talbot asks in a dry, smartass tone.

Zuela’s eyes turn to slits, and his silver sword extends. “Careful, incubus. Things have gotten entirely too casual, and formalities aren’t a stuffy, archaic thing of the past. Show some respect,” Zuela grinds out.

Talbot immediately lowers his eyes, bowing his head. “My apologies, Sir Van Helsing.”

Zuela’s attention returns to me, while Talbot remains at a bow. I hate Zuela. He makes it look easy to check a beta like Talbot.

“I guess I’ll be carrying him on my own,” Zuela bites out. “Useless fucking wolf and incubus,” he adds on a mutter.

My suspicion over Zuela’s identity is put to rest when he touches the silver and nothing sizzles. Only a Van Helsing is impervious to it.

You can only wield a Van Helsing weapon if it’s been gifted to you. If their silver is not gifted to you, it usually burns.

I snatch the curious chain from the ground, deciding to take it with us.

“Hurry up and do something, old man,” I tell Zuela, moving to the ladder. “How the hell did you know we’d need help?”

“I told him to help you,” the male ghost says, popping up beside Zuela.

Zuela bristles and hurriedly goes to start dragging Vance toward the ladder, as I keep a safe distance from the silver. I block out Violet’s current condition, because the last thing anyone needs is for my wolf to break free from its leash.

Zuela manages to lug Vance up the ladder with impressive haste, and a knight leans over to aide him at the top. Talbot shimmies up ahead of me, but I’m not far behind him by the time we reach the chopper.

Zuela Van Helsing, the head werewolf alpha, and an incubus, coming to save Vance. The world really has started rotating in a new direction. It was inevitable we’d trip at some point.

“You better not wolf out on my chopper,” Zuela tells me, as we all easily fit inside the spacious tin can with tandem rotors. “And my son’s likely going to stab all of you, once he realizes what you allowed her to do for him.”

“Allowed her to do?” I snap.

This is much faster than the one we flew in on.

“Yes, allowed her to do. This is clearly on the four of you,” Zuela gripes.

“You’re taking directions from a ghost. I’m taking directions from a ghost. Arion and Damien are the ones there, and if Violet’s still on that field, it’s because her ghosts have somehow found a way to incapacitate the vampire and the deviant,” I bite out.

“Oh, that’s for certain. Her other ghosts have some way of zapping their lights out. It’s brief, but effective enough to sideline them. They’re being forced to watch. One move, and down they go. Care to explain how that’s possible?” Zuela asks very seriously.

Talbot tosses a thumb in my direction.

“Does it look like he knows what’s going on? At this point, I’m certain I’m more in the know than he is,” Talbot states very bluntly. “On another note, this motherfucker took a silver sword through the heart, and he didn’t even seem to be bothered by it.”

I start to pull out my phone, hoping for a signal so I can check on Violet, but Zuela yanks my phone from my hand.

Growling, I lift my eyes to meet his firm ones. “No good will come out of watching something you can’t do anything about. And I mean it. I don’t want your wolf on my chopper.”

“The old man has a point,” Talbot says, his eyes moving to the open side, his voice barely carrying over the outside noise.

Exhaling a heavy breath, I sit and stare out at the setting sun.

“She said ‘on the way’ wouldn’t be good enough. She’s not stopping until Vance is home and in front of her,” Zuela says, shaking his head.

“That’s because she truly believes she’s distracting Idun,” Talbot groans. “She has no reasonable train of thought, and she’s too stubborn to ever change her mind.”

It takes all my strength to leash my wolf, because it’s the first time I’ve had too much time to actually think about it. Violet’s being beaten once again by Idun, only this time, there’s