Bitten Beauty (The Deadly Beauties Live On 3)

Screams don’t even have time to escape. Bodies drop all over, and the battle is won within a blink. Slade cracks his neck to the side, and he glances toward the doorway where the others escaped. In a blink, he vanishes from sight, while Chaz goes to scoop up Ella.

“Is she—”

“She’ll be fine,” Chaz says, interrupting me as relief fills all of us.

Dice claps his hand on my shoulder, and he points a finger at me. “Don’t ever fucking die again, you stupid son of a bitch.”

My eyebrows go up in confusion, and I swear I see him wipe away a tear. He clears his throat and walks away as Kya disappears from sight.

One person is missing, and it just now occurs to me that I haven’t see her.

“Karma!”

Dice waves me off. “She’s fine. She couldn’t ever break in,” he says with a shrug.

“Dice knocked her out of the perimeter before it closed us in,” Chaz adds.

“You asshole!” Karma barks, walking in as she glares at Dice.

Dice shrugs, smirking in her direction. “Hashtag, sorry not sorry.”

Thad grabs Roslyn by the waist, and she leans on him as they both limp our way. She looks to have taken a couple of shots to her right leg, and Thad’s arm is hanging at his side. The wound on my own leg is still healing, but it’s not painful anymore.

“Fucking mortals,” Thad grumbles.

Kimber walks toward us, seeming unscathed as she holsters her gun. “Drackus just called. He and Kane have freed the children, and they’re coming to kick our asses for not waiting.”

“How’d they find the kids?” Chaz asks, still holding Ella in his arms.

“Calypso found a spell to find mortal souls that belong in the immortal world. She’d actually been working on using it for a while, but tonight it worked. It led them right to the children. The second this seal broke, so did that one.”

My body sways off balance when something hard collides with my shoulder, and I curse while glaring up at Gage. “You’re a fucking asshole.”

“Duly noted,” I mumble, moving back to check on— “Motherfucker!”

Dice walks over, staring at the same empty spot I’m looking at as panic rises in my chest.

“You’re going to have to get that damn girl a leash.”

Then a daunting thought crosses my mind as a sickness unfolds in my stomach. My eyes dart over to Chaz then Gage, and we all three curse as Chaz hands Ella over to Dice.

“What?” the incubus snaps.

“Slade!” we all three yell at once.

I’m going to kill that silver-eyed son of a bitch if he takes her away just when I got her back.

“Don’t you dare fucking lose it,” Gage growls as we reach the edge of the woods. “I really don’t fucking feel like dealing with anymore tonight.”

Since I can’t make any promises, I don’t say a word.

Chapter 34

LEAH

I grew up as the freak who had t

o look over my shoulder anytime there wasn’t a teacher or parent around. I grew up feeling lost and scared. I grew up a pacifist and peacemaker despite the bully world I lived in.