Gibbon was sucking so vigorously on the nurse’s throat, Giovani was certain this would be the last time they would use her. She had done well, though, considering how much blood she had lost at the time they brought her in. Though the detective probably had another day or so in him, Giovani made a mental note to send out his minions to procure more reserva. If Gibbon continued his training so well, he would need more rewards.
Pulling his face away from the neck of the now deceased nurse, Gibbon began to laugh manically, blood dripping down his face. With each feeding he grew str
Getting off of the train had been a bit like getting out of prison, and Brandon couldn’t wait to get outside in the fresh air. The last rays of sunlight were visible above them shining through the towering glass windows of the Thirtieth Street Station, and while he wasn’t looking forward to seeing Cadence and Aaron, he was ready to get on with his fate.“I have to pee,” Cassidy said, actually doing some sort of a potty dance as she spotted a restroom sign down the lengthy hall.
“What do you want us to do?” Eliza asked as she sprinted toward the bridge.“Split up. If she’s going to Cira, it’s got to be because Giovani’s over there,” Aaron replied. “We should be on scene in less than five minutes. Slow them down if you can.”
Preston and Howard stood between Giovani, Zabrina, and their new prisoner, weapons drawn, with Meat behind them. Once Cadence’s hands were secure, Giovani pulled a black, cloth bag out of the pocket of his long black duster and slipped it over her head so that she couldn’t see. She could still hear her sister crying, and she could see her laying on the floor now, Brandon over her, each time a teammate with an IAC looked in her direction. Now that Zabrina was no longer holding her, Cadence could clearly see a deep red cut down the inside of Cassidy’s upper arm.“Our ride
Cadence usually dreaded waking up when something bad had happened; she hated that space between wake and dream when she knew she was on the precipice of pain but couldn’t quite remember why. This time, things were different, however. When she awoke, she had no recollection whatsoever of what had happened or where she should be, not until she tried to roll over. Then she realized her hands were restrained, and it all came crashing back around her. She opened her eyes to find herself in a poorly lit room laying on what appeared to be some sort of antique gurney, her hands strapped down beside her. She was thankful the bag was gone from over her head, but the scene around her was not a welcome sight.
“What are we missing?” Aaron asked Christian as they walked around, practically in circles, looking for the place where Giovani and Cadence had disappeared. The helicopters both circled overhead, using their bright light to illuminate the ground where the Guardians were searching, but so far it had done no good.Aaron stopped pacing for a moment and surveyed the area slowly one more time. Where would you hide an entrance to a tunnel? If it wasn’t in the ground, where else could it be? And then he noticed a small pier jutting out into the river. It looked as if the water had r
Howard and Clayton were dead—finally. When they hadn’t been able to lose Aurora and her team, they had decided to try to make a break for the jewelry store, using it as cover until they could make their way into the chamber below the floor. They thought they would at least be able to take out the two Hunters and impede the Guardian’s progress enough so that they could get away; they were wrong.Shane had done an excellent job of protecting the Hunters from the Vampires’ fire as they advanced on the storefront. He had taken several rounds of fire himself, but Vampire bul
Gibbon had to choose again—right or left. The tunnel split, and just like his choice between doors, he tried to determine which was darker, which was quieter. They seemed to be about the same, and so he chose to go to his right.Aaron and Christian both knew that Gibbon had taken off down the tunnel because they were able to see it through Cadence’s IAC. Aaron hoped that he would have the opportunity to face the monster and destroy him now before he was unleashed on the world, but when he reached the broken door, he knew it would be up to Christian to encounter Gibbon and defeat hi
Grandma Janette’s house had always been a place of solace, and even in this trying time when Gibbon was still on the run, Cassidy was recovering from her injury and trying to figure out her new reality, and Cadence was finding her place as the new Hunter Leader, sitting on her grandmother’s sofa, munching on a homemade chocolate chip cookie, flipping through her grandparents’ sacred photo album made things seem a little more like they used to be. That is, if one wasn’t to dwell on the fact that the pictures of her grandmother she was looking at were hundreds of years old.“Now this o