Free Burning Sky (Burning Sky Series) by Noir Duvall Page A

stroll into the campsite.  Taller and more athletic than Gabe, and much more attractive, he showed not one ounce of fear.  Course, he was holding a sawed-off 12 gauge.
     
    No one moved.
     
    “I said, let her go! ”  The tall man's voice boomed.  Where did he come from... and why was he trying to help... me?
     
    Gabe quickly rounded me, grabbing me by a shoulder and pulled a knife to hold against my throat, using me as a shield.  “What's she to you, pretty boy?”
     
    I brought my hand up to my mouth to cover my yawn.  “Alright, time to wrap this up.”  I decided that the new guy would live, so I couldn't let him know what I was.  Every motion I made had to seem... human.  In a few quick movements, I had Gabe on the ground, spouting blood from his neck and chest.  Next was skinny guy.  I broke both of his knees before I pulled his trachea out of his neck.  Last was Craig... since he didn't attack me, I thought he might have use as food on the road.  “Come here.”  I beckoned him with my finger.
     
    He came to me, wide eyed.  “Please don't kill me...” he whispered.
     
    “Turn around.”
     
    Trembling, he turned around as I commanded.  I secured his hands behind him with part of my torn shirt and forced him to the ground.  I brought my mouth close to his ear.  “I'm not going to kill you, but you'll probably wish I had in the next few days...”
     
    “How did you...” the new guy stammered.
     
    I turned to him and let my eyes linger over his athletic physic.  Short dark hair, trim facial hair, piercing green eyes and a body that I had only seen on guys that were too vain to think of anyone else... what on earth was he doing out here.  “I was a bartender before the meteor shower.  A girl hasta know how to defend herself,” I smiled coyly.
     
    “I guess so...  Krav Maga?”
     
    I laughed.  “Mostly... I improvised some.”  Ole handsome here had no idea what I had in store for him.  He may have been chivalrous, but he was still a human.
     
    “I used to be a seal.  Spent some time in Israel with their special forces, I’ve seen it a few times.”
     
    That actually impressed me a bit.  It explained how he knew my form and got that body of his.  Definitely a toy I was going to have some fun with.  “I'm Sky.  Sky Miller.”  I held out my hand to him.
     
    “Trevor Caldwell,” he smiled and shook my hand.  “It’s a Pleasure to meet you, Sky.”  His hand was warm, soft, firm.  I felt tingles in my stomach and between my thighs.  It had been too long since a man had been inside of me.
     
    “Oh no, the pleasure is all mine, Trevor,” I smiled back mischievously.  In a heartbeat, I had his arm twisted behind his back.
     
    “What are you doing?!”
     
    I grabbed his other hand and secured both behind his back with another scrap of my torn shirt.  I was actually surprised he didn't fight more.  “Keeping you safe.”  I pulled him back slowly to lower him to sit on the ground.  I pulled the remaining bit of my shirt off, tore it in have.  One covered Trevor's eyes, the other gagged him.  “Now, no peeking...”
     
    I didn't care if Craig saw what I was about to do... the same would happen to him later.  But I did care if he called out what he saw.  I gagged him as well.
     
    I found Gabe's wrist and held it to my nose.  Despite his lack of cleanliness, I could still smell the blood in the veins below his dirty skin.  I bit down, my canines finding their mark.  I would have to suck some to pull the blood from these veins now that the heart wouldn't be pumping it into my waiting mouth.
     
    Craig whimpered eyes wide in terror.  I smiled at him with Gabe's wrist still in my mouth.  I hated humans.  I hated all that they were.  Amazing, it took being mutated into a vampire to change me into what most humans were.  Greedy.  Thoughtless. Selfish.  Cold.  Evil.
     
    Once I drained Gabe of as much blood as possible, I dragged him out into