I squeezed the heart until it crushed beneath my fingers and then tossed it aside. I could see Banner fighting off two males, my brother-in-law not fully shifted, but I could tell his body was bigger, his eyes glowing blue. He easily killed the two men in a matter of minutes and then went after the next one.
Lennox and Tavish were in their own battle, as were all the other vampires and shifters.
The entire place was a fucking shitshow.
I faced the barn entrance and saw a hoard of human motherfuckers charging forward. I lowered my head, kept my gaze trained on them, and let them come to me.
The first one, I snapped his neck without tearing my focus from the others coming closer. The second one, I used my speed to break his arms and legs before he could touch me. The third, I moved behind him, wrenched his head to the side, and dug my fangs into his skin, ripping out the side of his neck.
Blood covered me, and I reveled in it all.
I held my arms out. “You know who I am?” I roared out my laughter. “Come on, motherfuckers. Come on and take me down if you think your balls are big enough.”
The rest was a blur from my aggression and violence as I picked them off like annoying gnats. I felt bullets slamming into me, felt whatever they’d laced them with trying to drain me, but I was so juiced up on my own power that I felt myself growing stronger because of them.
I killed the next with my teeth, copious amounts of blood covering the lower half of my face, dripping down my neck, and coating my shirt.
Lennox was about to take out one of the humans when I watched one of the assholes creep out from the shadows, his arm raised, a GLOCK pointed at his head. I was on him a second later, breaking his wrist and then snapping his spine in half. I turned to pull the other guy off Lennox right as I watched the human raise his arm and slam his fist—that was wrapped in a modified pair of spiked brass knuckles—across Lennox’s face.
Lennox growled, and his eyes flashed, his wolf pushing forward, his body growing bigger as he was seconds from shifting. I made a low, rough sound and ripped the human fucker off my nephew, throwing him against the side of the barn so hard I heard his back break. And just as I turned to face Lennox and check on him, the sound of several gunshots going off right beside us filled my head.
Everything around me slowed to a standstill as I stared at my nephew. His eyes were wide, unblinking, the blue glow fading. The side of his face was torn the fuck up, the brass knuckles that had been used on his face laced with something that wasn’t allowing his skin to heal as quickly as it should have.
There was the sound of bones breaking, flesh tearing from bone, but I was focused on my nephew.
“Uncle Adryan,” he gurgled out, blood pooling at the corners of his mouth before spilling down. He looked down at his abdomen.
And that’s when I saw the bullet wounds in his abdomen, blood slowly dripping out the holes and soaking his shirt. Banner roared, and I was vaguely aware of the rest of the vampires and Guard finishing off the humans.
I focused on Lennox and laid him down, pressing my hands to his stomach, staunching the blood flow.
“No, no, no, nononono,” Banner growled, and I moved away just as he checked Lennox over. Lennox’s mouth was moving as he stared at his father wide-eyed, then looked at Tavish. Banner picked up Lennox instantly, his son just as big as he was, but the Scottish Lycan King held him easily. “Tavish, Cian, we leave now.” He looked at me.
I stood and hollered out for Kane to call the pilot and have the plane ready, then to go with Banner and take him to the Otherworld doctor we kept on staff. I looked down at Lennox. “He’ll be okay.” I didn’t know if I was trying to reassure him or me.
“Ye stay here. Ye finish this and end them.” Banner’s voice was deadly calm.
I may’ve been a heartless bastard, but when it came to the select few individuals I kept under my protection, I’d destroy anything that hurt them.
I nodded slowly and took a step closer. “We will finish them in the most painful way.”
Banner stared at me for one more second, and I sensed a darkness in him I’d never seen or felt before. He nodded once, and then he was gone, a handful of the Guard following him. Kane and a few of my men went with them.
There was only a second of stillness before the rest of the Otherworld males looked at me for direction. I felt my own darkness cover me like a thick, decaying cloak.