Tamed: A Huntress Spin-off Novel by Adria Wade Page B

guy. He had normal hazel eyes and tan skin instead of pale. He said he sucked human girl’s dry, yet he didn’t look like a vampire to me. I was confused.
    “You’re confusing the poor girl,” Violet said as her eyes, penetrating and searching, looked over me.
    I never said I was confused. I thought it, actually.
    “How did you know that?”
    “I’m half witch. I’m highly intuitive, so it’s easy for me to pick up on other people’s emotions. I can also see into the future, especially when danger is coming.”
    I looked at her in absolute astonishment. What a wonderful gift she had.
    She pointed her chin to Lucas. “My brother, here, once was a human, then he was turned into a vampire, but now he’s human again.”
    “But how is that even possible?”
    Lucas frowned as he waved his hand in the air, brushing it aside. “Long story, so little time.”
    From the look on his face he seemed rather miserable, as if talking about his lost immortality was painful. But I wasn’t done yet. I wanted to know. Everyone kept blowing my questions off.
    When I opened my mouth to talk, he spoke before me, hoping to steer the conversation away from him. “You are aware that you’re lucky, right? No human escapes from a supernatural club.”
    “I had help.”
    Lucas’ brows pinched together. “By who? It couldn’t have been a vampire…maybe a witch, or a wolf.”
    Hunter snorted. “I highly doubt it was a wolf. You know us wolves don’t like to mingle outside of our own kind.”
    “I see red eyes,” Violet said as she came closer, her eyes glued to me as she folded her arms.
    “What?!” Eli shrieked as the muscles in his body tensed.
    Violet’s brows pulled together as she locked eyes with Eli, caught off guard from his sudden panic. “Someone with red eyes saved her. She is a female, so I’m leaning more toward an incubus.”
    “No way,” Hunter said in disbelief.
    “We’ve never encountered their kind before. They don’t like to mingle with others until it’s necessary,” Chelsea said.
    “Is she in danger? We don’t know anything about their kind to even protect her,” Taylor said as he shook his head, panic rising within him.
    “No, I don’t think I’m in danger. He saved me.”
    Eli exhaled and shook his head. “No,” he whispered more to himself than anyone else.
    “Is everything okay, dude?” Taylor asked, concerned.
    “Yeah, it’s nothing.”
    It was something. Eli wouldn’t have reacted in that manner if it was only nothing.
    “Well, it has to be something. You just about had a heart attack,” Chelsea said.
    Athena knelt in front of him. “Eli,” she said in a soft tone.
    He kept his head down, refusing to look her way.
    “Big brother,” Athena said as she placed her hand on his knee and squeezed.
    He exhaled and looked up. “I’m fine. Let’s go kick some ass and get Andie out of there.” His voice was surprisingly calm. From the look on his face, he looked as if he was about to snap.
    Athena looked back at Taylor, Chelsea, and Kyle as they all shared a look. They knew something was off with him.
    “Okay then,” Kyle breathed as he unzipped the duffel bag.
    He took out cans of pepper spray and placed them on the coffee table.
    “Pepper spray can kill vampires?” I asked.
    Lucas chuckled. “She is so innocent when it comes to our world. It’s cute.” He nudged Athena on the arm. “Can we adopt her?”
    “Oh, could we? She can be the little baby of the group. She’s so innocent and helpless,” Hunter said.
    “Ha, innocent my ass,” Chelsea said as she pursed her lips and folded her arms.
    She was right about that.
    “It’s not pepper spray. They are potions that Violet cooked up. A couple of the cans have garlic in them and the others have wolf’s bane,” Athena said.
    “So garlic actually does kill vampires…just like in the myth’s people tell,” I said.
    “No, wolf’s bane kills, garlic weakens and immobilizes them,” Eli said.
    Kyle pulled out a