Chapter 42

• “Oh, no you don’t, mother fucker,” Skylar yelled.
• I couldn’t look back to check on her but I could tell from her tone that she was stressed. There wasn’t time to fight these vampires slowly. I had to help her.
• I called my magic, summoning that dark part of me I didn’t like to use. Oddly, since I’d met Skylar, I’d been using it more than I had in decades. The drive to protect her couldn’t be extinguished. It was worth calling up that magic. When I was younger, I thought it was a curse. Now that it’s finally serving some good instead of being used to further causes I didn’t support, I felt differently about it.