Page 101 of Bloodhunter

“Give me your cell phone.” He walked closer still.

Finally, I slid Silverlight back into her sheath and let himcome, but when I handed him my phone, his fingers brushed mine and I recoiledso violently I knocked the phone to the ground.

He said nothing, just picked up the cell, slid his longfinger across the screen, and then handed it back to me. And he was careful notto touch me.

“I put the address into your GPS, Trinity. Go now. I will bethere when you arrive.”

“Wait…” I said.

He waited.

“It might not be a good idea for you to be there. I’ll havethe supernaturals and—”

“Trinity.”

“What?”

“I will be there when you arrive.”

He slid away, quicker than a shadow.

Before I could follow, my cell phone vibrated. “Hello,” Ianswered. “Clayton?”

“Trinity,” he said, his voice cold but somehow urgent, “I’mon my way to you with the exorcist. Something has happened.”

“What’s wrong?” I tightened my grip on the phone. “Are youokay?”

“When Angus took Gordon in, they tried to arrest him.”

I stopped walking and stared into the darkness, suddenlyterrified. “Tried to arrest Gordon?” I asked, stupidly.

“They tried to arrestAngus,”he said. “The butcheredbodies of eight human women were discovered. They were flung into a pile behindsomeone’s house. The demon is losing his mind.”

“My God,” I whispered. “Amias was just here. He didn’t tellme.”

“Stay with the others. I’ll be there in ten minutes unlessI’m stopped. We have to end this tonight, or the Red Valley supernaturals areall going to die.”

Then he was gone.

When I shoved the phone back into my pocket and looked up,Miriam, Rhys, and Shane were standing in a line a few yards away, watching me.

I wasn’t surprised that they’d followed me when I’d gone tofind Amias. They all thought they needed to watch me every second, apparently.

“Who were you talking to, Trinity?” Miriam asked, but Icould tell from the look of dark anger in her eyes that she already knew.

But there was no time to care.

“Eight human bodies were found,” I said, striding towardthem. “They tried to arrest Angus. Red Valley is rounding up all thesupernaturals, so you have to stay here.”

“He calledyou,”she said, coldly, as though thatwere the only thing she’d heard. She pulled her phone from her pocket andlooked at it.

“Fuck that,” Shane said, his voice thick with disgust. “Claytonand the priest are on their way?”

“Yes,” I murmured. “Unless he’s stopped, he’ll be here in afew minutes. Do not leave these woods. They don’t have the manpower to come inhere and take on the vampires. At least not yet. I’ll be back as soon as Ican.”

“Where are you going?” Rhys asked. “You can’t leave,Trinity. They’ll likely see you as one of us. If you’re detained, we don’t havea chance to kill the incubus.”

I knew that, I did.