Night Fae (Dark Fae Kings #3) - Meg Xuemei X. Page 0,54
Tania, pressing strips of fabric to her bleeding eye. “What the fuck? Are you just going to murder my girlfriend?”
“We’re hunters,” said the goatee dude. He looked confident again with a broad knife in his hand, probably taken from someone smaller than him. “That’s what we came here to do. Your girlfriend isn’t even human.” He spat. “She’s just like them, and they hurt us. So we kill one of them and go back to our lives, best deal ever. If you get in my way, you’ll get a blade in your solar plexus.”
“Wow, you can talk fancy, Goatee,” I said in a bored tone before addressing the rest of the fighters. “I won’t say it again, but you all need to be smart. You can’t take me down. I’m superior to you all. I don’t want to kill you, but if you attack me, I will snuff out your life mercilessly. I’m more of a killer than any of you.”
Pixie-cut smirked. “We have the numbers, Evie.”
I arched an eyebrow. “So you want to die along with them?”
“I haven’t decided,” she said, her smirk not dropping. “I’m a bit torn here.”
“What’s to decide?” yelled Hawaiian shirt guy. I’d disarmed him, and now he was weaponless. I could see that he was holding a grudge. “Let’s just kill the Fae bitch, or she-demon, or whatever she is, and get it over with.”
“She’s less of a bitch than all of us here,” Pixie-cut said, brandishing a katana in front of her. It seemed she was also trained with a sword. “Fae aren’t all beautiful monsters, right, Evie? And this girl, a sentient being just like us, happened to study in New York, my hometown. So I’m not going to rush her and try to off her just because some assholes ordered us to. I have better sense than that. I want to hear her sales pitch and then decide for myself if I like it. Anyone attacks her before that, and I’ll draw first blood from that person.”
The other contestants glared at her, but they put a wide berth between her katana and them.
“I second that,” Richie said tersely. “I won’t let you hurt my girlfriend. We’ll figure out another way out of this instead of killing each other.” He moved Tania’s hand to hold the fabric pressed to her eye to stop the bleeding. “Hold it, Tania. I need to go to Evie.”
I eyed him, and he held my gaze. I hadn’t expected him to stand up for me. He might be a cheater, but he still had human decency. For that, I’d protect him in this game.
“Richie, where are you going?” Tania sobbed. “Just let them kill her. Why can’t you see it? If it wasn’t for your ex-slut, we wouldn’t be in this hell!”
Shouldn’t she pick my evil sister to hate instead of me, since Brigantia was the one who was putting her through all this? This girl had also admitted that she’d been involved with my ex-boyfriend and enjoyed the hell out of the adventure of cheating with him.
Some people’s minds were just warped.
“Pick a side,” I said coolly. “Come attack me and see how it works out for you. And one last piece of truth: Brigantia and the Furies lied to you. Even if you have all the luck in the world and kill me, you won’t be allowed out of the hunt alive to tell the tale. The usurper queen already unleashed the plague, Pestilence, on California, and it’s been spreading fast. She wants to kill most of the humans and enslave the rest. Your best chance of getting out of the hunt is to stick with me. And know this: I don’t need you. You’re a liability to me, and you’ll slow me down. But I promised to protect the mortal realm for my human family. So, this is my last offer: If and when I get out of the Wild Hunt, you’ll leave with me, but if you force my hand by assaulting me in anyway, you’ll surely die.”
“Just shut up, Fae bitch, and prepare to die!” the goatee dude yelled.
“You’re rude, dick.” I jerked a thumb at him. “Stand aside before I fucking make you. I’m not offering you anything. Instead, we’ll engage in combat soon. Who else wants to join him?”
A girl with long brown bangs and a pair of expensive-looking golden-rimmed glasses raised her hand. “I just want to know one thing. They say Fae can’t lie, right?”