Immortal Destiny (The Immortal Prophecy Saga) by Samantha Adams Page B

kicked the burning corpse off the roof then turned around to the vampire that still had James in its clutches. “Do you wanna try me too, or do you want to run away while you still can?”
    Ally still linked to its mind, listened to the creature weighing up its options. Stupidly, it decided to finish her. James was listening in, too, and growled, “Don’t you touch her!”
    The creature still had a firm hold on him. “Or what?”
    “I’ll hunt you down like the rabid dog you are.”
    The creature laughed. “Tough words for an immortal that is, shall we say, indisposed?”
    James had done the worst thing an immortal could do—he’d been caught. It was the one thing an immortal had to be on guard for at all times. They could never let the vile creatures get too close for fear of this exact scenario. Their hold was an unbreakable vice, even to an immortal. James struggled trying to get free but to no avail. Ally watched and tried to decide how she could best take it out, when out of nowhere, it changed its mind and decided on another course.
    “I’m not going to fight you. But I am going to kill your mate,” the vampire sneered, its voice dripping with evil delight.
    Fangs exploded in its mouth and the deadly venom ran down the incisors, reminding her of a snake. James looked at her with absolute horror. They both knew what this would mean…
    Ally ran at the creature in a blind rage. It swung at her as she got close but she ducked and pushed it over the edge of the roof with a force she didn’t know she possessed, at the same sending a ball of fire that missed it by inches.
    The vampire scurried off into the night, and she fell to her knees beside James. She threw her arms around him and kissed him.
    He kissed her back and held her so tightly she could barely breathe, but she didn’t care.
    “I thought I was going to lose you,” she cried, the tears running down her face.
    “I thought the same thing,” he said. “Do you see how easily they can get the upper hand?”
    She nodded, trying not to sob into his shoulder. She’d held all her emotions in check while she was fighting and now they came bursting out like a dam that had broken.
    “I’m so proud of you, little one! You saved me…” He was so confounded that she had saved him that he was almost rendered speechless. “But I let you down.”
    Ally shook her head violently in protest. “No, you didn’t. You got caught because you were trying to protect me. We always knew there was a chance this could happen. Which is all the more reason for me to learn the skills to fight them.”
    “Well, you did an amazing job tonight, my darling, without that many skills.”
    “Thank you.”
    “We better check that Chase is alright.”
    “Yeah,” she agreed.
    “Chase?” James called out as they stood up and walked towards the edge of the roof.
    “Go it under control, I think,” he called back, his voice strained from concentrating on the fight. “Caleb’s here.”
    They looked down and saw the corpses of twenty vampires lying around and Caleb slicing and dicing another ten. Chase dealt the final blow to the vampire he was fighting then looked up at them. “Told you he was good!”
    James and Ally just looked at each other and rolled their eyes. “Ally was almost killed tonight, Chase.”
    His face paled. “What the hell happened?”
    “The vampires managed to catch me unawares…”
    “Seriously?”
    “Yes. So from now on, I’m not taking her anywhere near a vampires nest. I don’t care how good someone is.”
    Chase nodded begrudgingly.
    “I’m taking Ally back to the hotel room,” he told Chase. “Bring Caleb back there when you’re finished with this.”
    “Righto,” Chase called out.
    “Let’s get out of here,” Ally said.
    “Climb up,” he instructed, and took off into the night.
     
    “Well, well,” their enemy muttered to himself. “Takes out vampires and saves the hero…”
    He began to follow them back to the hotel,