Immortals And Melodies (Blood And Guitars #2) by Heather Jensen Read Free Book Online

fight. They weren’t smiling but seemed just as determined to teach me a lesson as the first one. I sidestepped a ways, not wanting to have the car at my back. When one of them lunged at me, I dodged out of his way, finding that he was noticeably slower than me. I threw my elbow in his face as he passed. The other one was faster, though, and he tried to use one of his legs to sweep mine. I jumped over it and reached for his left arm as he turned, barely missing him.
    I looked around and realized I’d lost sight of the first vampire. He wasn’t on the ground by the car anymore. In a panic, I spun around, trying to find him. Taking my focus from the fight, even for a second, was too long, and I paid for it with a blow to the side of my face. I let the momentum from the kick take me down, and I spun around with my knees bent and grabbed the vampire’s leg, twisting until he went down on his face. That was when I noticed the first vampire who had disappeared. He was at Trey’s door now, pulling it open. Fear coursed through me at the thought of what he might do, and I raced around the back of the car to meet him. The door was open now, vertical on its hinges, and Trey was going to fall out. The vampire reached for him and grabbed his head. For the briefest instant, he dropped the wall around his mind, and I knew without a doubt that he was about to break Trey’s neck. I reacted instinctively, wrapping my hands around the vampire’s head and twisting hard and fast. I only hoped the nauseating crack I heard wasn’t covering up the sound of a second crack as the vampire dropped limply to the pavement, his neck broken.
    I reached for Trey, catching him just before he slumped out of the vehicle. I crouched down and found that, to my desperate relief, his heart was beating. He was still alive. I wanted to pull him from the car, but I wasn’t sure if I should move him, and frankly, he might be safer inside of it for now. I propped him up against the seat again and turned around, expecting to have to face down the other two vampires. What I saw instead surprised me beyond belief. They were climbing back in their SUV and slamming the doors shut. In one last desperate attempt, I reached out with my mind, throwing all my mental prowess into the action. I don’t know whether it was the adrenaline or what, but I managed to break through to one of them long enough to gleam one sharp thought.
    She won’t be happy the human survived.
    Before I had time to work out who she might be, their tires squealed and they pulled back onto the road and sped away. Apparently, they weren’t willing to sacrifice themselves for their cause.
    Then I heard Trey groan, and I spun back around to see him open his eyes.
    “Trey?” I said, kneeling down next to him. “I’m here.”
    “My arm,” he groaned. “Something’s wrong.”
    I took a second to survey the damage from this angle. His nose was still bleeding, and his left arm hung at an angle that was all wrong. I took my scarf off and folded it, holding it to Trey’s nose with enough pressure to slow the bleeding. His shirt was soaked with his blood and I hoped his nose was the only source of it.
    “Do you hurt anywhere else?” I asked, more than a little afraid of the answer.
    “I can’t think past ... the pain in my arm,” he said through gritted teeth.
    I dove into his thoughts and was immediately overwhelmed by the pain he spoke of. It was almost unbearable, even for me. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d felt pain in that way, clear and sharp like a carving knife. I pushed past it and searched for any other aches and pains that he might not be fully aware of, but if there was something else, the pain in his arm was masking it.
    “Hold on,” I told him, trying to decide what my next move was. “Try not to move.”
    Aurora?
    I heard Antonio’s voice in my head and looked up to see him speeding toward us on foot. He didn’t stop until he was standing at my side. He looked