Darkness pinned his broken arms to the desk. Vespera passed the ruined office without looking inside.
At the end of the aisle, the vampire tore open every bag in the refrigerated case. The stolen blood gathered into a lance between his hands.
"Die already!"
He drove it at Vespera. Her shadow coils caught the shaft and bent it sideways, gouging the wall above the protected beds before crushing the weapon and drenching him in stolen blood.
"What the fuck are you...?"
The vampire tried to leap past her. One coil trapped his ankle while another snapped his knee inward, dropping him into his own blood.
"FUCK! MY LEG!"
Vespera’s shadows twisted his arms behind his back and pinned him facedown between the beds.
Behind Vespera, the armored woman forced herself off the wrecked trolley with her remaining arm. She launched herself at Vespera’s back, mouth open and fangs reaching for the exposed side of her neck.
A tendril snapped around the vampire’s throat.
Her bite closed on nothing. The shadow hoisted her into the air and swung her around Vespera’s side, leaving her boots kicking above the pinned male vampire while her hiss sprayed spittle across Vespera’s shoulder.
"HSSSSSS!"
Vespera looked up at her.
"Still hungry? And they dare label my child a glutton..."
Two thinner shadows crawled across the vampire’s face. "M-mercy..."
One shadow banded over her brow and pulled her skull backward against the tendril around her throat. The other hooked beneath her lower fangs, forced her mouth open, and pulled.
Both hinges tore loose with wet pops. The corners of her mouth split toward her cheeks before her lower jaw ripped free in a tangle of flesh, spilling blood down her neck and over the front of her armor.
Her hiss collapsed into a bubbling scream. Her tongue flopped against the ruin beneath her upper teeth while she kicked hard enough to shake her entire body in the tendril’s grip.
Vespera watched her choke with cold, sadistic pleasure.
Another shadow curled around the vampire’s exposed tongue and tore it out by the root.
Blood sprayed the broken lamps. It pattered across the aisle and ran down the vampire’s chest while her scream dissolved into a hideous gurgle.
The tendril holding her severed mandible turned it in the air. Then it drove her own fangs through the roof of her mouth and buried them in her brain.
Her body convulsed once before sagging.
Vespera dropped the corpse in front of the surviving vampire. The torn tongue landed across his broken leg, and he began fighting the shadows around his arms hard enough to strip the skin from his wrists.
She looked down at him, her fury undiminished.
Across the ward, the worker who had been packing blood backed into a cabinet with his hands raised.
"I’m not armed! I’m not-"
Vespera caught the worker with a shadow cable and secured him beside the office. She sent Rook the address and called her.
"My lady?"
"I need medical teams and restraints for awakened."
She put the phone away and withdrew the shadow roofs. At the first bed, she cut the woman’s straps with a blade of shadow.
When Rook’s people arrived, the freed woman was still too weak to sit up. A medic hurried to her bedside while Irena approached the surviving vampire with restraints.
"Please..."
Irena looked toward Vespera.
"I want to know everything," Vespera said.
...
By the time Kaiden Grey returned to the Moon-Thread estate in Tokyo, he wanted to sit down badly enough that the walk to his room felt insulting.
Luna had her arm through his. Aria walked on his other side, still holding the cloth she’d used to clean his face, while Alexandra went ahead to open the door.
"I’m going to ruin another chair," he murmured, looking down at his bloodied clothes.
"Who cares?" Luna said. "Fuck the chair. I’ll buy the plump JP milf a new one."
"Speak with more respect of our hostess..." He smiled at her and reached for the doorframe.
His hand missed.


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