Total pages in book: 90
Estimated words: 86074 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 430(@200wpm)___ 344(@250wpm)___ 287(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 86074 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 430(@200wpm)___ 344(@250wpm)___ 287(@300wpm)
“I don’t think so! Stand still and take what’s coming to you!”
Lili heard a muted pop and suddenly the would-be-rapist’s arms were twisted back at odd angles. She couldn’t be sure, but she thought both his shoulders were dislocated.
Dark ignored the hoarse cries coming from the attacker. He bent his head down and stared at the hairy, dangling genetalia hanging between the hapless man’s legs.
Lili was just about to ask what he was going to do, when a beam of brilliant red light shot out of the scope that covered the Dark Kindred’s left eye. It traced a burning line around the attacker’s dangling dick and balls.
The attacker writhed in the Light Twin’s grip, screeching hoarsely in agony—a sound that hurt Lili’s head. Suddenly his genetalia fell off and landed on the tile floor of the bathroom with a splat. Where they had been a moment before, now there was nothing but a smoking hole carved out from between his legs.
“Oh my God! Oh my fucking God!” the attacker shrieked, staring down at his neatly removed genetalia. “What did you do to me? What did you do?”
“We took care of the problem,” Dark growled. “And just in case you were thinking of trying to get them reattached…”
He stomped on the dick and balls, splattering them like a roach under one heavy boot. Then he lifted his foot and shot another red beam of laser light at the squashed remains, incinerating them entirely.
“No! No!” the attacker gasped. Light let him go and he fell to his knees, trying to reach for the blackened spot on the bathroom floor where his genetalia had been just a moment before. But since both arms were dislocated, all he could do was wave in their general direction as he howled in agony.
“Hey, what’s going on in here? What’s happening?” a new voice from the doorway asked.
It was one of the waitresses, Lili saw. She had a confused look on her face as she tried to figure out the strange scene in front of her.
“What happened to him?” she asked Lili, nodding at the howling attacker who still had his pants around his ankles and both arms bent at odd angles.
Lili opened her mouth, but no words came out. She was still standing there numbly and holding her wounded wrist, which she was almost sure was broken. She was beginning to have a disconnected, floaty feeling—like her head was a balloon drifting ten feet above her body.
Is this shock? she wondered. Am I going into shock?
It was Light who answered the waitress’s question.
“This male tried to attack and rape our female,” he said, nodding at the sobbing attacker and raising his voice to be heard over his howling. “My brother and I punished him—which is our right under the ruling of the World Council,” he added. “Now we’re taking our female and leaving.”
“You what?” The waitress still looked confused and other people from the club were starting to gather outside the door as well. Lili was distantly afraid that at any minute they might grab her and drag her away.
Suddenly Light and Dark were on either side of her, their long arms around her shoulders and waist.
“Excuse us,” Light said firmly, pushing through the crowd with one long arm.
Dark was more blunt.
“Get out of the fucking way,” he growled, elbowing people aside. “And keep the fuck away from our female!”
Before she knew it, Lili was outside the jazz club and out on the street with the two big Kindred. As soon as they found a clear space, Light knelt before her and looked at her anxiously.
“Lilibet, are you well?” he asked her. “Tell us how we can help you.”
Lili opened her mouth and tried again to speak, but nothing came out. Shock, she was definitely in shock.
Light tried to take her hands in his, but the motion hurt her wounded wrist. She gave a little gasp of pain and jerked away, clutching her wrist even more tightly to her chest.
“He hurt her!” Dark’s eyes were glowing red again. “I’m gonna go back in there and kill that fucker! He doesn’t deserve to live!”
“No time, Brother—look.” Light nodded down the street where flashing blue and red lights could be seen and the faint whoop of a siren could be heard.
“Fucking human authorities!” Dark growled. “I’ll fuck them up, too!”
“No—no!” Light looked really worried now. He left Lili and rose to grab his twin by the shoulders. “Look at me—look at me! Do not let The Fury take you!” He shook Dark briefly. “Hold it together, Brother. Here…”
And reaching around to the back of his brother’s neck, he did something—maybe twisted a tiny knob. It was hard to tell, but Lili thought that was what he did.
At once the look of rage fell off the Dark Twin’s face and his eyes lost their red glow.