The Guardian's Bond(10)
“Yes,” she whispered against his lips. Me and two Alston Security Force members. Her hands lifted to his shoulders.
“I kill things.”
“That is what a hunter does, isn’t it? I mean we killed the cow we had for steak tonight.”
Barrett smiled, his hand running over her ass. “Tell me what you know about the strange things here.”
“Like what?”
“Like the reason your eyes glow red when we’re near and your breath heats up.”
“I’m horny.”
“Do you know what kind of hunter I am?”
“Yes.”
“And still you let me this close to you?”
“You’re sexy.”
“And you, sweet, are stupid.”
Livi glanced up, eyes wide when he put a charm around her neck, and she fell to the ground as if she had no bones. “What, what are you doing?”
Barrett moved in front of her with a nasty smile. “My job,” he said before kicking Livi on the side of the head.
Livi grunted from the hit and mentally told the security force to stay back when they started for her. “Barrett, I don’t understand, I thought…” Livi cried as he knelt beside her, her head going back from a hit before he yanked her head up by the hair.
“You thought wrong, sweet. You knew I was a Dragon Hunter and you still let me this close to you. What the hell did your Dame teach you? And I know the woman from the store is not your birth mother. Where is she, Livi? Where’s the Dragon shifter?”
Livi wept from his grasp on her hair as blood trailed down her face. “Stop it, Barrett! I haven’t done anything to you!”
“You exist!” he growled as his other hand smacked her across the face, busting her bottom lip open.
“Tommy will come looking for you,” Livi cried.
“Oh that’s right, your human boyfriend. Does he even know what you are, Livi? Does he know what an abomination he protects? What, did you two have a fight before I showed up? That’s why you were always hitting on me isn’t it, to make him jealous?”
Livi whimpered wanting to roll her eyes. She held her position. “He doesn’t know. No one does. They all think I’m human. Tommy was a jerk and flirted with some little bimbo who strolled through town.”
“Did you follow her and eat her, Livi? Did you shift and go after her, terrorizing her first before you put her out of her misery?” he snarled, smacking her again.
“I’ve never hurt anyone who didn’t hurt me first!”
“Oh I bet!”
Livi eyes widened when he drew a dagger up and she recognized it as a Dragon Hunter Athame. “How did you know I was here?”
“We had a leak come out of Alston, about a Dragon shifter who had mated with a Vampire. Stupid idiot, Vampires don’t exist. We sent someone in to take her out and he disappeared, so they sent me in to check it out. I told my mentor on the phone last night I had you, but I’m not seeing a Vamp around and you’re not pregnant.”
“She’s gone and you’ll never find her!”
“I will if I have her daughter. She’ll come for you.” He smirked.
“I am not her daughter.”
“No, then what are you? You’re a relation some how. You have enough Dragon blood in you for my charm to bring you down.”
“I’m a niece,” Livi said as he smiled.
“Good. And while I’m peeling the skin off your Dragon self to make weapons against your kind, you will give up their hiding place.”
“I will never betray my family,” Livi said with a low tone.
“Enough torture will make you do anything I want,” he said as he gripped her chin roughly.
Livi’s eyes narrowed. “Remember that,” she whispered before punching him along the jaw hard enough to send him flying through the air. Grabbing the charm from around her neck she shoved it in her pocket, smiling as he lifted his head with wide eyes. “Oh yeah asshole, and by the way, I’m not a Dragon.”
“Then what the hell are you?”
Livi smirked. “Adopted.” Stepping forward she punched him on the nose, sending him flying back. The less she told him about Other Kin the better, so why not fabricate a little. “I’m human just like you, so I don’t fall prey to your charms,” Livi chuckled as she lifted his head up. “Any of them. The eyes and breath, nothing but a few magician tricks asshole, to keep the public interested in Alston. How do you think we do such a great tourist business?” Her fist came down hard, knocking him out. Livi knelt down, grabbed him by the collar and flash-stepped.
* * * *
Livi met Tommy’s gaze as he and her family ran into the courtyard of Roven Manor. She knew Peter and the Security Force team attached to her had informed them she was coming. And she’d been sighted the moment she passed through the gates dragging one unconscious Dragon Hunter.