Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust - Jessica Dalton (i have read the book .txt) 📗

the back of his head and his momentary lapse of control over his limbs gave me the perfect opportunity to free my other knife and slide it home through his heart. I had to use a lot of strength though to get the knife through his ribcage and the muscle that protected his heart but I managed it.

I jumped off him and stood over the two dead rogues, I grinned as I looked at my handy work.

***are you having fun there Ashes?***

“that was exhilarating.” I said aloud to Dimitri.

“glad you thought so, Slone is on his way to wipe the two females memories, but right now we have to deal with the five rogues that just turned up and want in on the fun.”

I rolled my shoulders and then cracked my knuckles, my grin still in place I looked at Dimitri who looked back at me amused.

“bring it, I‘m just getting warmed up.” I told him just as the five rogues, four males and one female, sauntered round the corner and came to a dead stop, -no pun intended- I watched their eyes and let out a low chuckle, I could practicly hear their thoughts.

….”five of us and only one vamp, and three human females.”

This should be fun.

***Dimitri, let me deal with this, get the females and stand behind me.***

Dimitri did as I asked without arguing.

I took out my Wesson, Blaze had customized it with a built in silencer. I then casually reached down and took the knife out of the last rogue I had killed, I wiped the blade on his clothing before twirling it around in my hand.

The rogues had come closer now, mistaking the real threat in the group. They had seen me with my weapons but to them I was only a human girl. Big mistake on their part. Ah well, it was their funeral.

I raised my gun and shot all four male rogues straight through the heart one after the other. They all collapsed to the floor. The female looked at me stunned.

“come on girly, it‘s just me and you now. Do you wanna play or not?” I grinned.

“Bitch!” she shrieked.

“Ah did I kill your little friends? Don‘t worry you‘ll be joining them pretty soon.” I told her as I put my gun back in its holster and loosened my grip on my knife.

I watched her come at me, she was really fast and I could see the rage plainly on her face as I calmly side stepped her and punched her in the side of the head. The force of my punch sent her toppling over but I grabbed her by the hair before she could fall and I stabbed her through the heart and then pulled my knife out before letting her fall to the ground.

I looked over to the first rogue I had killed. There was now only ash where he had once lain and my knife lying in the middle of all of it.

I picked up the knife shook as much ash off as I could and then re-strapped both my knives to my thighs.

I took a minute to see if I could sense any more rogues, there weren’t any so I turned my attention back to Dimitri.

“well how was that?” I asked out loud.

“that was amazing.” Dimitri said his eyes shining with laughter. “you just killed seven rogues all by yourself in one minute forty-seven seconds.”

“really? Wow, I didn‘t know I was that quick. That was a lot of fun though I want to do it again.” I said jumping up and down like a little girl.

Dimitri laughed just as a handsome vampire walked up to us.

“wow, I‘ve never heard you laugh before my lord, what‘s so funny?” asked the vamp who I can only presume is Slone, he must have flitted over here after Dimitri had called him.

“I‘m laughing at my Enforcer who just killed seven vamps in under two minutes and now is looking for more.”

“Enforcer eh?” Slone asked looking around.

***what a sexist pig!*** I said to Dimitri.

Dimitri cleared his throat.

“Slone, this is my new Enforcer, Phoenix,” Dimitri said with his hand on my shoulder, “Phoenix, this is Detective Slone.”

“pleased to me meet you.” I said politely, he may me be a sexist pig, but my mother brainwashed me with good manners as I grew up.

“you did all of this?” he asked in shock.

“yep, now can you wipe these ladies minds so that I can get back to work.”

“yes, yes of course.” he hurriedly stepped around me and Dimitri to get to the females.

It only took Slone a couple of seconds before he was finished and he had sent the ladies on their way.

“I‘ll leave you two to your hunting.” Slone said as he made his way back down the ally way.

“I want that progress report on my desk my seven tomorrow night.” Dimitri called after him.

“I‘ll email you my Lord.”

“Good good.” and with that Slone disappeared.

I leant into Dimitri with a huge grin on my face.

“what now?” I asked him excitedly.

“now you understand why I like hunting so much.” he said with a deep chuckle. “lets check out Raven.”

We made our way through the maze of ally ways and towards more fun.

I could really get used to the adrenaline that was pumping through my veins right now. It was a real high.

As we walked out into the busy side walk of the city I realised that I was going to love my job and that fate had been right, so far I am very good at being the Enforcer.

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Authors note:: if you see these ***around words it means that Phoenix and Dimitri are talking to each other in their heads.***
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Chapter 8

“okay, someone has got to take over from me and Baldric, we are missing all the fun in the city, I am bored out of my mind babysitting those traitorous scoundrel’s, it‘s time someone took over from us and let us back in on all the action we’ve been missing.” Alric’s voice boomed throughout the mansion as Dimitri and I walked through the front door.

“I don‘t mind standing guard of the prisoners. King Dimitri asked me to do him a service and I am honoured to oblige him.” Baldric spoke up.

“do you hear the Alric? Where is your sense of duty? You could learn a thing or two from your brother.” Quinn’s Irish accent drifted over to us as we entered the Kitchen where it seemed as though everybody was sitting with a metal flask in front of them

***Blood.*** Dimitri told me.

***right, gotcha.****

Everyone stopped talking and looked at Dimitri as we walked in.

“My Lord…” Alric started to say but Dimitri held up a hand to stop him from talking.

“it is quite all right Alric, I understand your frustration. I myself had been left in this house for the past fifty years while my guards got all the fun until recently. But that does remind me that I have something to say to you all. Where is Hunter? ” Dimitri asked as he cocked his head as though listening for something.

I did the same and almost immediately heard Hunters reply which seemed to come from the cellars below us.

“I‘m with the prisoners my lord.”

“good, you can listen from down there then.”

“won‘t the prisoners hear us as well?” I asked.

Dimitri looked at me with amusement in his eyes. “they are in a five foot deep cell lined with silver, they can not hear a word we are saying.”

“oh, right of course.” I mumbled, “so what do you have to tell us?” I asked a little more brightly.

With one last smile at me, Dimitri turned to everyone else in the kitchen.

“As you know Phoenix has only been out on patrol for three days now. What you don’t know yet is just how many rogues she has killed while I have stood by and watched without interference.”

“get your money out boys I have a feeling I am about to come into some cash.”

As I watched, all the vamps around the table started to take wads of money out of their wallets. And set them in a pile in the middle of the table.

“whats going on guys?” I asked them.

“oh we just had a little bet on how many rogues you killed in three days. We each put in three hundred dollars and guessed the numbers of kills you got.”

I looked at all of them, I guess I couldn’t blame them, me, Jaz, Kev and Dec made bets all the time to pass the time.

I smirked as a I formed a plan. Reaching to the back pocket of my leather trousers I pulled out my wallet and took out four hundred dollars and threw it on top of the pile of money.

“I bet you four hundred that I have killed more than any of you have guessed so far.”

“Done.” Blake grinned.

“tomorrow is Phoenix‘s twenty-first birthday.” Dimitri continued, while hiding a small smile from the vamps at the table.

“wow, really?”

“you‘re only twenty-one?”

“And I am sure you will all agree with me that for someone so young, Phoenix has achieved a great feat in killing the amount of rogues that she has in the last couple of days.”

“So how many has she killed then?” Quinn asked.

“Phoenix has killed twenty-seven rogues.”

“wow that is a lot of rogues! I didn‘t even know we had that many in the city.” Baldric cursed.

The other vamps around the table looked at me in stunned silence. Quinn was the first to smile at me as he pushed the money across the table to where I was sitting.

I rolled the notes as I watched the others break out of their daze.

“that is very impressive Nixy, but you will understand if we are also very shocked at the amount of rogues you were able to find, we hadn‘t known there was that many out there before now.” Hunters comment floated up to me from the cellars below. But I did understand his uneasiness, Dimitri had explained to me already what the rise in the number of rogues could only mean.

“I have requested for Mircea to come here immediately, I think it is time for my second in-command to finally meet his new boss.” Dimitri said as he turned to look at me.

I blinked at him for a few seconds before I realised what he was saying.

“you can‘t be serious Dimitri! I can not tell the head of security what to do! He has far more