Free Daughter of Anat by Cyndi Goodgame Page B

door opened and another Elf-made-Vamp came through sending the others into a crouched animal-like position ready for attack.  Now would be a good entrance for Cord.
    Anastacia.  Go.  You can ’t be here.
    I heard him.
    Not an option.
    I had a feeling negotiations weren ’t an option here either.  I saw the way the taller Elf dude looked actually frightened when my first knife rose.  His Adam’s apple bobbed in his throat going to town with his fangy hisses.  I was still wagering the best first move, confirming and changing.  That is until the one on the uneven legged chairs lifted and his nose went to the air... and smelled me .
    That was it.  I ’d had it with them.
    I tossed it through the air aiming for the neck and missed.  That was a shock for me.  The dude had ducked.  He actually had time to duck.  With that surprise, I didn’t hear the approach from behind or feel the arrow whiz by me nailing it between the eyes.   I recognized the arrow even with its dynamic speed in the air. 
    Szar hunched back and faced the opposition aimed and ready for another go at it.  He dared to speak holding a one-eyed concentrated stare and came out with, “It’s just my highly educated guess, but I don’t think they are happy to see you.”
    I glared and ignored his attempted jab at me leaving without him.  I just know my brother.
    “Just a hunch you say?” Calum huffed and aimed his sword from beside him. 
    “How did you know?” I circled the room to allow us all to attack at the same time.
    Cord bungled up beside the other two spitting out words too inappropriate to repeat.  Szar motioned an elbow in his direction indicating Cord informed him.  He texted us.  “We live to serve you oh goddess of our world.”
    My control with the wolf boy snapped.  I growled at him and went for the door where I knew Cas was.  “Take care of them.  I ’m getting Cas.”
    Don ’t.
    Why not?  I stopped in the doorway now.   I could see him tied to a chair, his head hung low.  His face was hidden and blood was everywhere. 
    Snap!  Like a helium balloon, I let out every ounce of ill-will I possessed.
    Gathering my knives into my palm for cutting the rope I head Cas call for my brother rather oddly. “SZAR!  I.Need.You.NOW!” I screamed mentally stringing a song of curse words in my head vowing to end each with little mercy.
    Szar was there without a second in passing seeing Cas.
    “Take her out of here,” Cas hissed to Szar.
    “NO! I’m not leaving.”
    “Stace.  He ’s hungry.  You can’t stay.”
    Cord stepped into the room and threw a knowing look at Szar that I couldn ’t interpret but knew they were mind reading the guy clues or well-known histories of each other.
    “I ’m not leaving,” I screeched out mad as anything and poorly making my point as they kept on their silent decision making without my input.  So much for them beating each other up all the time.  The friendships these boys held were well rooted and strangely demented.
    And Cas was in constant awareness of my own whereabouts and what circumstances I might be in to be rescued from so I knew he had no ground for being rescued himself.  His manhandling controlling nature that wanted to fix everything for me and kill anyone who went against me in our path was instinctual to all things male.  But I felt just the same.
    “He will not be able to control it.  By the looks of it, he has fed and he ’s well, in a bit of a spot when it comes to being a Vampire.”
    “Tell me what to do then, but I ’m not leaving.”
    Calum screamed from somewhere behi nd me and one of the remaining Elf-vamps went down.  The walls waved and moaned like a rubber band about to snap.  Calum slammed what I guess was a fist into the wall next which didn’t help preserve my likelihood of the stud beams still standing when he was over the adrenaline rush.  This was just how he got his energy out.  The enemy just got in his way. 
    The last E lf-vamp