“How do we stop her from Teleporting out?” Cole asks suddenly.
“Even just a slight nick from the sword will weaken them enough that they will lose the ability. That’s why I need you to distract her until I can get to her with it,” I say and receive three interested looks at that little nugget of info I was keeping to myself.
They both nod and with a swift kiss from each, they head off with grim faces to execute our plan.
Shit, this is kind of moving a bit quicker than I’d have liked, but strike while the iron is hot, I suppose.
“Call him,” I say quietly.
CK does as I ask.
Aware of his eyes on me, I start to pace as he talks quietly into the phone. He stands behind me, trailing his hands down the silky sides of my shirt, pulling me against him. I can feel how much he wants me. All I want, is to turn to him and forget everything else but I focus as the knock at the door distracts me. “That was quick,” I mutter as I go to open it.
Gregor’s eyes smolder at me as he sees me. He steps into the room when I move back to let him pass. Closing the door with a quiet click, I take a deep breath and square my shoulders. It’s show time.
Not saying a word, I sashay over to CK who has made himself more casual by removing his suit jacket and tie. I take his hand and with a look back at Gregor, I lead him over to the bed. Gregor is quick to follow and is at my side in seconds.
With a quick glance at CK to step back just a bit, I call the sword to my hand and spin
so quickly to thrust it into Gregor’s gut. I want words with him before I finish him off. He grunts in surprise and pain. His angry eyes snap to mine as he drops to his knees and I follow, hand still gripping the sword.
“What do you think you are doing?” he croaks out. “Constantine?”
“Ending you,” I growl at him as I twist the sword and pull it out. He gasps in pain as the wound is leaking blood and isn’t healing but is in fact getting bigger. He is weak now and unable to Teleport.
CK pulls me back before he bunches his hand into a fist and punches Gregor so hard in the face, his head snaps back, all but breaking his neck. Not that it will finish him off, but it had to hurt. “That is for daring to go anywhere near what’s mine,” he snarls, picking him up by the throat and throwing him against the wall.
Gregor sneers at us. “Told him finally then, did you? Told him that I fucked you. Did you tell him that you loved it? That you couldn’t get enough of it?” he rasps, picking himself up off the floor with great difficulty.
A vicious punch to the face breaks his nose but CK doesn’t stop there. Another one and another. So much for my words, this is so much better!
I go to CK. “Stop, my love. We need to end this.”
One more punch so hard it would have knocked the head off a regular Vampire. “Finish him,” he orders.
Lifting the sword, the flames licking the air, I can feel its Power weakening him even more. I check on CK to make sure he isn’t affected before I say to Gregor, “Just so you know, as much as I hate you for everything you have done to me, this isn’t for me, this is for Fraser.”
His shocked eyes go dead as I sever his head from his body, and it disintegrates before our very eyes.
I stand stock still as CK grunts next to me, doubling over. “We need to get to Eloise,” he says, “Now.” And without further ado, I grab his arm and we Astral to Eloise.
We swirl into Eloise’s bedroom to find her also slightly weakened, gripping Devon by the arm. But she looks bewildered as if she doesn’t know why. This is good. Finding Cole as well, they both look slightly disheveled but alive and well. I nod at them. James is nowhere in sight, thankfully. I spin to Eloise and run her through, cutting off her ability as I want words with her too.
“What have you done?” she gasps at me in agony as the wound cuts through her, expanding slowly.
“Killed Gregor. You are next,” I say blandly.
She looks scared for a split second. “You can’t kill us,” she says confidently.
“Oh, Gregor would disagree, if he were here to,” I say, twirling my new best friend in the air closer to her. She winces.
“You okay?” I say as a sidebar to CK, who nods. It is taking everything I have now to keep the sword under my divided control to both protect CK and destroy Eloise. A slight sweat breaks out on my forehead and I grip it tighter.
“Just fine,” he says.
“Just so you know, I am going to take great delight in this,” I say to her pleasantly and now I can see the fear in her eyes. She tries to make a dash for it, but she is weak and all CK has to do is reach out and he has her by the throat in an instant.
“You’re helping her do this?” she says to him, big green eyes all sorrowful. “After everything we’ve been through, you are choosing her over me?”