Hex and the Single Witch (Vehicle City Vampires)

by Roxanne Rhoads

  “Where are Markus and Tony now?” I asked. We could use the tracking skills of two vampire hunters in Flint with a serial killing vampire on the loose.

  “I have no idea. I haven’t heard from either of them since 2005. But that’s not unusual, we were never close.”

  “I’m sorry.”

  “No worries, it is what it is.”

  I wanted to cheer him up, make him think about something else. Get back to where we were before we took a wrong turn down memory lane. So I leaned into him and gave him a kiss. As I pulled away an odd look was on his face. Surprise maybe? Then a silly grin crooked his mouth as he straightened up and worked on righting the rest of his clothes. He tried to tuck everything back into his fitted trousers, but the tight pants did not want to accommodate his still erect cock. “So this wasn’t a spell or anything this time was it? I mean this was actually just you and me, no metaphysical, paranormal bullshit involved right? Just a man and a woman making love?”

  I hopped off the desk with my own silly grin. “Yes, Mike this was all us.” Oh shit, what about Mel’s bliss spell? I wasn’t still under it, was I? I did a quick check up on myself and felt no magickal pullings, trappings, or even afterglow. Nothing other than the bindings that held my powers back, but they were always there. Thank the Goddess nothing else was, I couldn’t bear to tell Mike I had been spelled into having sex with him once again.

  “Good,” he said as he leaned down and kissed the tip of my nose. “Still not the ideal setting but at least it was on our terms.” He straightened up and was finally able to tuck everything away and fasten his pants. He bent over and picked up my thong but instead of handing it to me he slipped it into his coat pocket as a cocky grin slid across his face.

  “Yes, our terms,” I smiled at his grin, though I was going to feel weird not wearing any underwear at all. Suddenly an overwhelmingly odd feeling overtook me and it had nothing to do with Mike. Like a twitchy feeling telling me I should be somewhere else. “Mike, I think we need to get upstairs.”

  He looked at me and rubbed the back of his neck. “Yeah, I think you’re right.”

  Chapter 32

  The frivolous and fun loving atmosphere of the ball had changed into something dark and sinister with a touch of sexual debauchery tossed in for good measure. Just the way Others liked to party. Too bad this shindig was full of humans who might not have signed up to be snacks and party favors.

  I couldn’t find Mel, Satinka, or any Guardians, anywhere. The place had been overrun with vampires and ghouls who were sinking teeth and various other body parts into the humans who were left milling about the building. As I assessed the scene I realized the majority of humans were gone which probably explained the lack of Guardian presence—they had probably done what they could to get the people out.

  I turned to Mike who had his gun drawn. Where the hell had he been hiding that? “What are we going to do? We can’t just leave the rest of these people for the rogues.”

  “I think the humans that are left are fully willing to participate,” he snarled and he gestured toward the orgiastic crowd.

  I turned to see what he pointed at and watched a busty blonde woman strip off her gown and offer herself to two very well endowed male vampires. They made their way through the ballroom, fangs and cocks out for everyone to see.

  One of the vampires picked her up like she weighed nothing. As she wrapped her legs around him he thrust his rock hard shaft inside her. He sat down on a table and pulled her body down to him so he could sink his fangs into her neck. The other vampire walked over to the table and bent over the couple. To my shock he shoved his cock inside her back entrance then sank his fangs into the other side of her neck. I gasped at the depravity as the blonde moaned loudly with what sounded like extreme pleasure, I couldn’t even imagine what it felt like.

  Mike sneered. “See she doesn’t want to be saved. Chicks like her never do. Come on, let’s get out of here, they’re all enthralled.”

  I hesitated not sure of what to do. It could be the vampire pheromones putting them all in a thrall. Or these humans could be Renfields or wannabes who would do anything a vampire wanted. And the ghouls, they were natural hanger-ons. They took sloppy seconds from the vampires and on rare occasions, depending on their masters, they were offered the privilege of joining in on the fun.

  Most of the ghouls worked the room gathering human party favors for the vamps, but I spotted two having a good time with a brunette in the corner. She didn’t seem to be complaining so I didn’t feel the need to intervene.

  I tried to determine if anyone inside needed help as the vampires and ghouls continued to circle the room. I could feel the tension in the air getting thicker but couldn’t really understand why. Mike was getting trigger happy but right now the vampires weren’t exactly breaking any rules. They were not being violent and they weren’t killing anyone.

  A beautiful and extremely busty blond vampire sauntered up to Mike pumping out enough pheromones to turn Vatican City into a giant orgy. I prayed he was immune to vamp powers thanks to his own hereditary gifts. But when his gun went down and something else came up, I realized he wasn’t.

  To my surprise, I became intensely jealous and moved to intercede when a male vampire appeared out of nowhere in front of me. He was sex on a stick, the kind of bad boy every girl fantasizes about. Dark, dangerous, part rock and roll, part biker badass. Leather encased his long powerful legs and his silky shirt was unbuttoned and loose to showcase every muscle ripped pec and ab he had. I couldn’t believe this guy had to bother with the pheromones.

  “Hey doll, you wanna go somewhere and play?” he asked me in a voice that totally matched his look.

  He was so freaking hot I almost said yes.

  “Uhm, sorry I must decline. I’m here with someone and this wasn’t exactly what we had in mind for the evening.”

  He gestured toward Mike. “If he’s your man he seems to have changed his mind.”

  I gasped when I turned to look at Mike and found him in the arms of the breasty blond whose large mammaries were now fully exposed for Mike to fondle…and tweak.

  Oh, hell no! I was not about to let Mike get snacked on…or seduced by Countess Von Boobies.

  “Excuse me.” I pushed by Mr. Oozing Sex Appeal and reached to grab Mike’s fancy silver tipped walking stick from the back of his coat. I had noticed him slide it into a pocket down the back of his frock coat. Handy thing for a vampire hunter. Since he went to all the trouble I was betting the walking stick was more than it appeared to be. In fact, I prayed it was because my clueless witch ass was completely without a weapon.

  Mr. Sex lazily attempted to grab me but as soon as he eyed silver he poofed away as quickly as he’d appeared. Mistress Nipples was too caught up with Mike to notice me. The two of them passed second base, moving on to third. Mike fell right into her clutches. If I didn’t do something fast he’d be dick deep in vampire and she’d be fang deep in him.

  I fished around in Mike’s pockets to see if he had anything else. What do you know, a silver flask, much more than it appeared to be, in fact not a flask at all, but a fancy spray bottle filled with liquid silver. I also found a small wooden stake. I fiddled with Mike’s walking stick and discovered it came apart just as I suspected. I pulled a long silver dagger out of the handle of the stick. Perfect.

  I slid my arm between them and gave a little push. They ignored me. Then I pulled out the bottle of liquid silver.

  “You really need to get away from my man,” I said more forcefully, silver flask in one hand, silver dagger in the other.

  She looked at me and smiled full fang as she stroked his hard cock through his trousers. “Doesn’t look like he’s completely convinced he’s yours.”

  That just pissed me off and I squirted her with the silver. She let go of Mike with a feral hiss. Not a Hollywood theatrical hiss either, a full fledged seriously pissed off animal hiss tapering off into a growl. The skin on her big ass boobies smoked and turned painfull
y pink.

  Oh well. She’d heal.

  “Bitch you aren’t getting away with that one. She lunged for me and I put up the silver dagger in my defense. She screamed and I smelled burning flesh. She pulled away and I kept a hold of the dagger feeling it give as it tugged out from her body. The dagger had plunged into the side of her chest, not the side her heart was on. And not deep enough to do any serious damage, but the silver did leave a nasty burn across one of blondie’s humongous breasts. One nipple smoldered. Ouch, that had to hurt. Tough titty, bitch. Or should I say, burned titty?

  “I was only trying to have a little fun, I wasn’t going to hurt him,” she cried as she stormed away clutching her smoking chest.

  Hmm, so far the oversexed vamps were not being dangerously confrontational and didn’t seem to be hurting anyone. They were just being…well…your average sex loving vampire. These vamps were not the danger I had sensed.

  I turned to Mike who was coming out of the vamp thrall. His face so red I thought he was going to burst. Not quite sure if it was embarrassment, arousal, or flat out anger riled him. Hell, it could have been a combination of all three.

  Once he composed himself he said, “Anwyn, I am sorry. I’m not usually susceptible to vampire charms, but tonight I let my guard down with you then I didn’t properly put all the mental wards back in place. I…it will never happen again.”

  My jealousy flared majorly seeing him with the blond. I wanted to reassure him it was all right, and I wanted to make sure he knew he was mine. I wanted to rub my body all over his and make him forget she existed. So I did, a little.

  I moved close to him and put the dagger and flask back into the pockets I found them in. I made sure to do it slow and with a lot of extra touching and caressing. I brushed up against him, not coming close to being as busty as the blonde, but I had more than enough cleavage spilling over the top of my dress to catch his eye. My hand caressed his strong, square jaw and an overwhelming urge pushed me to kiss him. Why deny what was between us? We had just made love downstairs, why fight something as simple as kissing him?

  I heard someone clear their throat. “Uhm…sir?…Detective Malone?”

  Shit. That was why.

  We were in public. We worked together, and now he was not only my partner but technically my boss.

  He turned to look at the man in uniform. “Yes, officer?”

  “I’m sorry to bother you, sir, but there has been a disturbance outside. I was told to find you, sir.”

  “Thank you, I’ll be right out.”

  The officer was smart enough to know he’d been dismissed. “Yes, sir,” he replied as he backed away.

  Could that uni have said sir a few more times or what?

  Malone handled it well. He’d make a fine Sergeant. He turned to look at me and smiled his amazing grin. “Glad the uni didn’t come in sooner, it could have been even more awkward.”

  When I didn’t smile back, he grabbed my hand. “Don’t worry Annie, this isn’t going to change our work relationship. Everything will be fine.”

  Uh, huh. Easy for him to say. I already didn’t fit in. If we were “real” cops, I’d be out of a job right now. I guess the good news is there wasn’t anyone waiting in the wings to take my job.

  We walked out the front door to find complete chaos. People were running everywhere and something was in the air swooping and attacking people. That wasn’t even the worst part. The worst part was the carnage on the street. Blood flowed across the road and seeped in between the bricks. Bodies lay strewn in front of the temple. The only positive thing was I didn’t see a vampire bite on any of them. The bad thing? I wasn’t sure what ripped them open.

  A few vampires fought with things moving so fast I couldn’t tell what they were; a few other vamps looked positively queasy. I don’t know why, maybe from all the blood. Perhaps they were newbies trying to control their hunger.

  Mike grabbed my arm. “Annie, you need to go back inside.”

  “What about the vampires in there?”

  “I would rather have you sexed-up than sliced up. Go back inside. I don’t want you hurt.”

  “What about you?” I cried. I didn’t want him hurt either.

  “I’m a cop, Annie, this is my job.”

  “I’m a cop too or did you forget?”

  “Come on Annie, everyone knows you’re not a cop like the rest of us. You’re a consultant not a fighter. Please go inside.”

  A very snarky remark was about to fly from my lips when Mel grabbed my arm. “Come on girlfriend, he’s right, let’s get you inside.”

  Crap I couldn’t fight them both. “Mel, what’s going on?” I asked as she led me back into the Masonic Temple.

  “Something decided to attack the stragglers outside the ball. I think they are some sort of dragon creatures. At least the ones with wings, the others are demons. Once the attacks started, everyone came pouring out of the ball. We’re trying to get all the humans back inside or to somewhere safe, but it’s proving to be quite difficult.”

  “Demons! Like Roark? Oh, no. Do you think Devlin let them in?”

  “I think so. Somehow he’s opened a portal that brought more than just Roark here. We’ve got to shut it. I need to get to my office to research shutting a demon portal. I’ve never done it before. The one thing I do remember from my studies is we are going to need the blood that opened the gate. I have a bad feeling it was Galen’s blood.”

  My whole body went rigid. “Are you going to have to kill him?”

  “I don’t think so, Wyn. I’ve never done this before. I don’t do blood magick—it is more on the black arts end of things. These demons have got to go though. I certainly don’t want to kill anyone, especially not Galen. If it’s just blood, I don’t think I’ll have to kill him. Devlin has not killed him yet, he just keeps using Galen’s blood right? I bet he’s going to need to be fed right away after the ritual though. He won’t last for long after losing blood.”

  I didn’t hesitate. “I’ll do it, I’ll feed him.”

  “Let’s not worry about that just yet. I need to be at my office to get my books and some other supplies. I might not need any blood from Galen, it’s just a possibility. You need to stay here.”

  She didn’t look open to discussion, but I pushed anyway. “No, I’ll go with you.”

  She gave me a scathing look. “Anwyn, it’s not safe. I can’t protect us both. If anything comes near me I can zap it, but I can’t watch your back and mine and promise to get us both inside the office unscathed.”

  I knew she’d say something like that. “Okay I understand.”

  I stood there, sulking, freaked out, and worried beyond belief as she ran out of the temple and headed down Saginaw toward the police department. I made sure she made it around the corner to the station without getting assaulted. Luckily none of the things went anywhere near her. They still attacked humans and any vampire or Other that stepped up to fight them. Mainly, they went after humans. I caught a glimpse of Mike fighting beside a vampire. I bet that irked him. Maybe this would help him realize they weren’t all bad.

  As I watched all the action in the street, I heard a sexy male voice behind me, “My sweet, you have returned. Would you like to play with me now?”

  Damn, it was the vampire version of sex incarnate. I turned to him. “People are dying out there, why aren’t you helping?”

  He looked shocked. “You want me to kill people?”

  He was either stupid or being sarcastic, I wasn’t sure which. “No, I want you to fight and help save them.”

  Now he looked insulted. “People always die, I don’t care for it. Pleasure is a much better option.” He caressed my cheek, then his hand moved lower to touch the top of my breasts.

  I swatted at his hand. “Stop, I’m not in the mood.”

  “But women are always in the mood for me.”

  Arrogant vampire.

  “I’m not and I’m not a woman, I’m a witch. Your vamp charms won’t work on me. Go away.
”

  I watched his haughty expression turn into a succulent pout I was not going to fall for. “As you wish, my lady. You have no idea what you are missing, my sweet. I know many ways to pleasure a woman.”

  Yeah, I bet you do. I thought half-sarcastically and half-wistfully as vampire Don Juan sauntered away.

  I turned back to the fighting in the street. Finally, I could pay attention to what was going on outside. A dragon flew overhead. I watched it soar over everyone and land far across the street. This led my attention to a glimmer of movement. Two figures headed behind the Halo Burger building. Was that Devlin and Galen? Son of a witch! I had to get to them, Galen may need me. And we might need him to shut the portal.

  I ran out of the building and hurried across the street trying to stay out of the way of any fighting and anything flying. I did good until my heel got stuck in between two bricks. I almost fell. Damn it. I couldn’t get it out. Screw it. I ditched both shoes and resumed my mission.

  Until, someone grabbed me and dragged me behind the building. I kicked and screamed the whole way, but no one seemed to hear me.

  “Stop the noise, luv.” Devlin. His voice grated my nerves. Something about it was just off.

  “What do you want?” I mumbled into his hand as I struggled against his iron tight grasp around me. One arm and it was like being wrapped in steel. I kept fighting his hold even though I knew it was of no use.

  “You’ll help ensure our boy here does exactly what I want him to.”

  I looked up to see Galen being held by two of the demon creatures. He was bloody and looked very weak.

  Devlin let go of my mouth so I could talk.

  “Why are you doing this? What exactly is it you want him to do?”

  “Oh luv, I was sent here to merely be a distraction, to keep you two apart. But I couldn’t resist using this time for my own agenda. I want Galen to willingly accept being Roark’s host. If he doesn’t then Roark will continually go back to his own realm whenever I get too weak to hold him any longer. If Galen accepts the possession, Roark can take control of his body and stay here. With me.”