Free Davis: Blood Brotherhood by Kathi S. Barton

nipples as she hummed out her pleasure. Yeah, Davis thought, he could get used to this as well.

Chapter 5
     
    The hoard was moving toward one of the larger apartment buildings. Davis was right behind them but on foot. He still wasn’t great with the wings yet. He figured that knocking over two of the big bushes in the yard and nearly decapitating Remy meant that he needed more practice. Of course the big man had laughed, but still…. Davis looked over at Vicki as they were set to round the corner to the building.
    “Just cut off their heads. And according to Remy, the turquoise on the blade will make it kill quicker if you just touch it to their skin.” She nodded but looked nervous. “If you want to go back, now is the time. No one expects you to do this your first time out.”
    “One of those pricks might have hurt someone I know.” He nodded. They more than likely had. There was still no word from her brother, but even in his meanness, he knew that she was worried about him. “I can do this. I can really do this.”
    There was no doubt that she could physically do this. But he worried about her mentally. He had killed before. Not a lot, but he’d been a cop for a lot of years before coming to help Remy. She’d been a nurse…a damned fine one too he’d bet. There was a great difference in what she was about to do.
    They moved around the corner, and before he could move toward them there was a shrill whistle right next to him. He looked at Vicki just as she pulled her fingers from her lips. He was so impressed that that sound had come from her he nearly missed what she said next.
    “You fuckers have been here long enough. It’s time you either change your ways or we’re going to fuck you up.” She winked at him before continuing. “Of course, we’re going to kill you anyway, but we’d like to take this opportunity to give you the chance to repent.”
    They came at them…nearly fifty, he’d say, but they were coming. As he lifted his sword, he looked at Vicki once more to make sure she was going to be all right, just as she sliced through the first two that came close. Davis smiled. She was going to be just fine.
    They worked for nearly an hour. His arm was sore, his body covered in blood. He’d lost sight of Vicki twice as they worked, but she appeared just before he was ready to go look for her. She sat next to him now in the mire and looked as bad as he did. The dead were all around them, their faded bodies nothing more than fodder now. Before he got too comfortable, he got up to search for the stones. They were collecting them so that no one else, Benton or the other two, could reuse them. Vicki started helping him when he showed her what to look for.
    “I knew two of them. The dead, I mean.” He nodded. He’d noticed the lab coats as well and wondered if she might. “One was a prominent surgeon. Another was a nurse like me. They’re dead now. Not because of me but just because. Do we know why?”
    “Just that they want to take this planet from us. Something about these stones and selling them to another planet.” She nodded and two more of the soldiers walked in front of them. Before he could stand and take them out, she put up her hand and they were incinerated. “Christ, how did you do that?”
    “I have no idea. I was going to stretch out my arm before I got up to help you kill them. And there it was.” She put her hands under her butt as if she were afraid of what she could do too. “This shit is too cool, and scary as hell too.”
    “Yeah. I agree.” As they sat there after they’d found all the stones they could, he thought about all the things that Remy and Skylar could do and wondered if, as the other men came to them, they’d have the same discoveries. He decided that he’d make a list of abilities and how to do each of them. Maybe it would keep one or more of them from taking off a friendly’s head.
    “I’m going to work with Weston. I want to help you as well, but I