Tainted - Aurora Kryan (best way to read books TXT) 📗

and flipped end over end. After a second I remembered that I was chained and growled an angry response and the vampire while rolling over to stand up.

“You tricked me vampire.”

“Ha! You are a dumb mutt.”

I was fall way up when he kicked me in my ribs. I yelped again because there were two that weren’t totally healed and my trip messed them up again. And I still had small amounts of sliver running through my body from there interrogation earlier. I fell to the cold floor painting and he kicked me again and again. By the fifth blow I had shut my eyes and concentrated on the coldness seeping through my fur to my skin instead of the pain.

“Kincaid what the-“

The female voice cut off and I heard bodies hit and one fall to the floor. Then the man, Kincaid, screamed. With a good deal of effort I rose to my side but my head dropped to the floor. I still had a view of Kincaid looking at horror at the female who was standing over him. She wasn’t doing anything she was just, standing there with her hands on her hips. Yet he was scarred senseless. I whimpered as pain flared through me that caught her attention.

“Are you ok? I’m sorry Kincaid is so horrible. I was to take you down here but Camille had me doing another errand. But I’m glad I came to see if he was done.”

“Yes I’m fine thank you?”

She confused me. Vampires hated tainted of any kind because we weren’t true vampires and we diluted their blood lines. Yet this one was nice to me why? I got my answer when she turned her head. Her eyes where pure white one second and then shifted to a light blue.

“Tainted.”

I breathed the word but she smiled and nodded. I kept starring at her as she turned back to Kincaid and yelled at him for treating me so bad. I didn’t know what kind of tainted she was but she had to be strong if a vampire was scarred of her. I looked to Kincaid and he looked angry now instead of scarred but the fear was still in his eyes.

“You stupid tainted stick together I’m out of here.”

He said it hatefully and got up to leave. The woman shook her head and turned to me. She was walking over to me so I tried to sit up and succeeded. But when I lifted my head to look at her face I saw Kincaid walk back down from the corner of my eye. The woman must have heard him because she turned back to him. He had a gun pointed at her.

“Actually I think you should die now and we can kill him at the festival. The less tainted around here the better. Bye Bayne hated meeting you.”

He pulled back the hammer and I lunged forward knocking the woman down, she had helped me so I was returning that favor. I was able to knock her to the ground just as a bullet sung past my ear. The woman was looking at me in shock. We both heard clicking again as Kincaid pulled the hammer back again aiming for her heart.

I growled deep and low that drawled his attention and he pointed it at me. Flattening my ears down and baring my teeth I continued to growl at him, lady get out of here he said he won’t kill me. When she got up she moved toward him instead of away.

“Kincaid what is with you? You know you will only get Tasha’s rath if you harm me. And Bryden will come after you.”

“Then I’ll run away where the queen can’t fine me and I’ll kill him.”

“HA! Kill a reaper, the king reaper, you’re suicidal.”

“At least I’m not a tainted!”

Bryden, the Reaper king Bryden, her father reaper king Bryden? Wow no wonder Kincaid was so fearful of her. A reaper can easily kill a vampire but Reapers are immortal and of darkness a vampire can’t harm them. But what does Vampire queen Tasha have to. That’s her mother. She is a princess of both. I never thought that would ever happen with this war. My thoughts were interrupted as another deafening gun shot rang out in the small room.

I lunged forward at him and felt a hot pain in my shoulder. It twisted back and I landed just the length of my muzzle short of his feet. My eyes felt heavy and it was getting dark. I heard the sound of a dog crying in pain like it was dying. I had no idea where it had come from but it was obviously hurt badly. Oh wait I’m that dog.

“Venit Angelus cecidit.” (come fallen angel)

Who was that woman? I couldn’t see anything. I opened my eyes and there was the woman, Bayne, holding Kincaid by the throat. He was off the ground about two feet and struggling. My eyes fell shut again and the last thing I could remember was screaming and a crow cawing. But there was no crow. Or was there? Darkness and sleep took me over and then nothingness.

Wolf Tainted

“It’s ok.”

That voice. My eyes were heavy and didn’t want to open. I moaned and felt someone’s hands on my shoulder press lightly on the wound. I gasped and sat up ready to attack. But I just fell to the ground holding my shoulder and gasping for air.

“Please don’t move a lot. I had to remove the bullet from beside your lungs. And you lost a lot of blood.”

I let her help me sit up but I didn’t have a lot of energy to stay up on my own. She ended up letting me lean against her shoulder with my good one. It took me a few minutes to think of something to say. But then I noticed the white bandages around my shoulder and the other cuts I had from before. And there was no trace of silver in my body. For it to have all disappeared it would take three days.

“How long have I been out?”

“Well you’ve been in and out for four days. I haven’t left because I’m afraid Kincaid might try and finish off the job. So I have to stay here and in my reaper form so the barrier stays up too.”

“Has Kincaid been down here?”

I turned to look at her and I saw that her face was tired like she hadn’t slept in days. She was in her reaper form sitting as straight as possible. That’s when I noticed she was wounded. She had her wings folded around her to keep her warm but I could see the same make shift bandages on her side.

That’s when I came around in front of her on my knees to see her face better. She was pale even for a reaper and kind of sweaty like she was physically exerting herself just sitting there. I looked into her white eyes and saw no hint of pain.

“Did he hurt you? When I was out of it did Kincaid attack you?”

She didn’t answer me but she pulled her wings closer. It hid her body from me but not her face. I sat down in front of her holding myself up with one arm so I didn’t face plant in her lap. That would be embarrassing. I slowly reached out my hand to move her wing so I could see how bad she was hurt. I use to be a doctor when i hid my tainted side from the vampires.

But once I transformed in front of someone they had me in poisoned and tortured. That was why I was here. But I could tell from the way she bandaged me she was experienced at it. And I wanted to make sure she was going to be ok.

“Let me see how bad it is Bayne. I use to-“

She disappeared from in front of me as I touched a black feather. And I was off balance and face planted to the ground again. I might as well marry this stupid floor since I keep kissing it. I thought to myself. Then I sat up and looked around for her. It was so dark in the room I couldn’t see at all.

I shifted my eyes to that of wolves and saw the stairway to the left. The room was empty and I almost missed Bayne when my eyes swept over her. Her wings concealed most of her from me but her face was still visible. I would have gone to her but I could tell I couldn’t stand without falling back to my beloved floor.

“Bayne please I used to be a doctor I know what to do. And I want to know how bad you are hurt. I want to help you and thank you for helping me. And I’d like to do that by tending to your wounds you got because of me.”

I sighed because she made no movement after a few minutes. So I rested my back against the cold hard wall and waited. She must have decided to come back because I heard her wings rustle and but I didn’t see her. I shifted my eyes back to a wolf’s and saw she had collapsed on the floor. No she hadn’t Kincaid was behind her.

I shifted and lunged at him to protect her. But she was too far away from me. I strained on the chains letting them tear into my flesh without concern. I had to get to her. I had to protect her.

“Kincaid leave her be it’s me you want!”

I snarled at him it was so un-human sounding. I strained harder remembering the last four days. As the memories became clear in my mind I could only look at Bayne crumpled on the floor with Kincaid standing over her with a bat. There was blood on the floor from her wound.

I still haven’t had a chance to tend to her wounds! Kincaid stepped closer to me and hit an invisible wall. He bounced off it with such force that he hit the wall half knocking him out and making him dropped the bat.

“Bayne please get up. Come closer to me. You’re in no shape to fight.”

“Says the wolf who’s covering the floor with blood.”

She was standing up and swaying over to me. She slipped and I caught her on my shoulder. I almost went down too in pain but adrenalin was keeping me going. That’s when I got a huge whiff of metallic salt. It was blood, my blood.

She was right my half of the room had a huge puddle of blood around me. Bayne saw Kincaid come like I did. So with my paw I pulled her back against my side and walked back from him. I knew just how far to go because once I reached it Bayne said something in Latin.

“Nigrum adamas franguntque mount. quod proiectus Principe ac minatur suas.” (shatter and bind black diamond that which threatens the princess and her charge)

That’s when the invisible wall shattered and flung itself at Kincaid. A clear glowing black chain wrapped around him and he yelled out in anger. He struggled against them but