Raising Innocence: A Rylee Adamson Novel(60)

“He has medical equipment at his home.”
“I have a werewolf I need to check on,” I said, pulling into the narrow driveway. Will leaned on me and I helped him into the blue suite, cringing once more at the sight of the gaudy decoration.
“Pamela, go shower and change clothes,” I said, and she reluctantly left us. I lowered Will onto the couch as carefully as I could. Deanna stood frozen in the doorway. “You coming in?”
“It feels as though a great darkness has been here.”
“Ah, shit, that’s the vampire you’re picking up on.” I grunted, throwing another blanket over Will.
“I have more clothes in the trunk.”
I nodded and stood to go get them when I realized that there had been no answer to my vampire comment and looked to where Deanna had stood. She was not in the doorway, or any other part of the suite, for that matter. I ran, opened the door and looked down the street, seeing her walking swiftly away. The bitch was leaving!
“Hey, where the fuck do you think you’re going?”
She glanced back and shook her head. I knew what would stop her—something that would stop a Shaman in their tracks too.
“Oath breaker!”
If she had brakes, I might as well have slammed a brick onto them. She stopped so hard and fast, her upper body actually tipped forward.
“What did you call me?”
People on the street were staring, but I didn’t care. What the hell did it matter to me if a human got a glimpse of the supernatural? They’d just write it off as some trick of the eye anyway.
“You heard me. You made a promise to help me, to help those kids. And now you’re running away. Oath breaker is the least of the names I could come up with.”
Deanna stood there, rain pounding down around her, but the weather still didn’t seem to touch her or her grey robe. Nice perk.
Finally, she turned and walked back toward me.
I let out a soft breath. If I didn’t have her help, I wasn’t sure I could nail down this bastard on my own. He was too fast at using the Veil to get away, too slippery, not to mention the whole zombie guard business.#p#分页标题#e#
“I do not want to deal with a vampire.”
“You won’t. He just wants me.”
Deanna stepped back inside the suite and I closed the door on the rain, though the sound of it still echoed through the house.
She went to her brother’s side; I went in the other room and got the medical supplies I had.
“Here.” I handed the kit to her, then went to check on Alex. He had moved, making his way into my bedroom, then to the far side of the room. Curled up in a ball, his face was buried under his bushy tail and he breathed deep, the sleep of a body healing. The shower was running full tilt and I could just hear Pamela humming to herself.
At least my two charges were alive and well. Now came the tough part.
Back in the kitchen, I went and pulled a chair out for myself. I had to phone Agent Valley and get him up to speed. The suite didn’t have a rotary phone, which meant I either went outside to find a phone booth, or I walked down to the station to face Agent Valley in person. Neither option was all that appealing.
Deanna was sitting beside Will, working on his back, cleaning out the claw marks. They were healing, I could see the difference already, but it was always good to get the worst of the foreign bodies out.
A soft pad of big feet snapped my head up. Alex limped out to me and put his head on my knee. “Alex come with Rylee.”
His golden eyes were tight with pain, his body was still badly injured and yet, his loyalty won over everything else. A suspicious lump in my throat rose and I fought it back down. This was no time for tears.
With a wave, I got Deanna’s attention. “Throw me the kit.” She closed the lid and tossed it across the room to me. I opened it on the table and picked out an herbal concoction that dulled pain. It might actually have an effect now that he was not in and out of consciousness. The mix also tended to dull the ability to think clearly, but with Alex, I was less worried about that than I would be with anyone else.
“Open up,” I said. I knew then how bad he was hurt. In the past, Alex fought taking any kind of supplement or herbs. Like a child, he would spit and pout and hold his breath. But this time he just opened his mouth and let me pour the sluggish contents down his throat.
He gacked, heaved, shook his head, and then settled back against my leg. For now, it was the best I could do.
“Deanna.” She lifted her head.
“Yes?”
“I’m going out. I’ll take Alex and Pamela with me, we won’t be long.”
She was already shaking her head. “What if the vampire comes back?”
I shrugged. “Take a message for me.”