Blood Warrior(22)

Each of the vampire’s sat unmoving, except to speak. “What is it that you want?” the one I held onto asked in a low voice.

Luke stepped in front of them, both his guns trained onto their hearts. “Is a woman named Korina on this boat?”

No jacket, whom Drew held down, bared his fangs and let out a low growl. “Why would we tell you that?”

Luke nodded. “So she is, then.”

No jacket shook his head. “I didn’t say that.”

“No, but you also did not say that she wasn’t. You also could have denied knowing what I speak of at all. You chose your words wrong.”

No jacket threw the f-bomb around in a couple of creative ways and then struggled against Drew. Obviously, vampires are much stronger, so when the vamp reached up and grabbed Drew by the shirt and flipped him over the top of the couch, Drew fired. A loud crack echoed throughout the cabin and the bullet lodged into the vampire’s forehead. No jacket slumped back into the couch, bleeding from the hole in his head as the UV light started to eat his brains away.

Drew had landed on the delicate coffee table in front of the couch. His body fell into it with so much force that the table splintered and broke in half.

“You all right?” I asked him.

He groaned and picked himself up from the remains of the broken table. “Yeah, but that gun shot just told everyone on this boat we are in here.” He brushed at his jeans.

He was right, we didn’t have much time now and we were so close to Korina. I tightened my grip on my gun, pressing the barrel even harder into the side of the vampires head. “Tell us where she is, right now!”

He just spread his lips into a grin and rolled his eyes up toward Luke. “I will never tell you.”

Luke sighed and turned, he paced the length of the couch a couple of times before he turned back, raised his gun and pulled the trigger. His round hit the vampire in the knee cap.

“Son of a bit…”

“Where is she?” Luke yelled.”

“Up yours,” the vampire yelled back, and he was promptly rewarded for his good behavior by Luke shooting him in his foot.

“You’re insane!” the vampire screamed.

Luke raised his eyebrows and flashed the vamp his own grin. “Maybe, now you will tell me where she is.”

I was totally in shock. I had never, ever seen Luke act this way. He was a good Hunter, for sure, but I never thought I would see him basically torture someone. I couldn’t decide if I liked it or if it scared me.

This time the vampire got creative with his answer and spit across the table in Luke’s direction, to which Luke shot him in the other knee cap and then stared up into the air as if he were bored. “I can do this all day,” he told the vampire, “but you, on the other hand, this UV light in these rounds is going to kill you pretty soon anyway, so you may as well end your life by doing something for the greater good and tell us where Korina is.”

A few of Sarah’s people, as well as Oscar and Alice, came running into the cabin. “What the hell is going on here?” Oscar demanded. “You guys all right?”

“We’re fine,” Luke told him. “But, this guy isn’t.”

“Screw off!”

Just then, Sarah and her team burst in. “I heard shots,” she hollered, then took a moment to assess the situation. “We didn’t find anything in our area, but it looks like you may have something.”

Luke glared at the vampire. “Yes, we have, but persuading him to talk is another story.”

Oscar stepped forward, brushing his blond hair out of his eyes. “I’ll do it.”

With a click, Luke dropped his clip, pulled a new one from his back pocket and slammed it up into the gun. “You sure?”

Oscar nodded, “It’ll work.” He moved slowly toward the vampire. “Tell us where Korina is.” His voice was soft and gentle, like the soothing waves of a surf rolling up a beach.

The vampire squirmed under my grasp and tried to turn his head to the side. “Stop it,” he moaned.

Sarah moved around the couch until she was next to me. I still had him in a firm headlock, ready to fire if things went bad. “What is he doing?” she whispered.

“Oscar is a Siren.”

I glanced over at her and saw that she was looking at me with question in her eyes. So I explained. “When he speaks, he can sorta hypnotize people and make them do things.”

She raised her eyebrows. “It doesn’t seem to be working on this one.”

I shrugged. “It might be because he’s a vampire. The structure of his brain may not be like humans.”

“Tell me where to find Korina,” Oscar tried again.