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next closest knife was conveniently out of reach, but a handy stick was laying under my back jabbing into my shoulder blade.  I stabbed right above the belt of a very fangy Vampire who had me bound more than any other enemy had.  I watched her rare back and even take time to gather her long skirt.  She bent forward dragging green streaked dirty black hair over my face with the intention of either biting me or kissing me.  I was voting for neither.
    “I want you dead you little slut.”
    What the—
    The girl Vamp bit back a hiss and flung her body on mine.  I realized my conscious effort to stay awake was alive and kicking with enough “oomph” to see that Granite only stood and watched.  I was floored by the events that just took place.
    “Who are you?” I choked out with two hands holding my neck tight.  She was strong.
    I was stronger.  Her give was about to pop.
    “Wouldn ’t you like to know?  Ask Thorn.  He knows me really well ,” she pressed in and neared my neck.
    Where are you Kissa? 
    For once, I was right about something.
    Less than five miles out.  Highway.  Borgon’s down but I didn't stop to find out.  I’m not alone and left Liam back with him.
    Granite is already in pursuit.  I ’ll be there in less than two minutes.
    Granite is h ere and so is someone else.  Some she-witch Vamp who tried to bite me.
    I heard his mind scream.  Ten seconds.
    Ten seconds.  I breathed the counts out loud.
    Three...two...Swoosh.
    I was in the air being lifted away unable to see if the two assailants were still below.  Was Granite really going to let her hurt me? 
    The air left my lungs.  I wasn’t gassed, just ready to have back up.  I wanted to go back now.  The evil witch could’ve knocked me down a while, but kill me not.  And I wasn’t sure what her bite would do.
    “Take me back.”
    “No.  Granite will assess and return.  Hugo is with him now.”
    I shrieked to the air.  “Cas.  Take me back.  NOW!”
    He wanted to scream back at me but he went silently away.  Didn’t he see that Granite let me get hurt?
    Borgon was gone.  Liam was standing, cut up, but okay.  Granite was not around and Hugo was asking Liam everything under the sun in his very undecipherable Spanish accent.
    Liam smarted off for him to shut up and a few less desirable words to mention so I knew he was fine.  And then he searched for Granite.  Movement caught all of our eyes.  In Granite walked just past the wreck in next to Cas cursing that Borgon got away pointing to the trees he’d just surfaced from.  
    I would find out Granite’s secrets.
    His demeanor was off.  He looked pissed and rattled unlike how the guards usually acted with their forged calmness and quiet alertness.  I watched Cas interact with him, but he didn’t seem to see what I did.   Or at least his face and emotions didn’t give off like he did.  I moved on to Liam to be sure he knew I was thankful for his mad driving skills and clarify his story with mine.
    Liam was safer to me even if he did visibly sniff me a lot.  He still held the same color in his cheeks as Cas as if they both ate the same diet.  I looked at Granite again.  His color was different.  Not the pointed out detail of separate types of people, but that of the Vampire ’s I’d met and become acquainted with in the last year.  Granite’s skin was in a way—flushed. 
    Yes, that ’s it.  He had more blood.  Or...different blood.  Couldn’t Cas see this?

 
     
    Chapter Three
    I had not intended to love him...
     
     
    Cas texted Szar, Calum, and Cord in a group text.  It seriously disturbed me that the four of them already had a system set up like a Stace alert.  In my head it read,
     
    RED ALERT.  Stace, goddess of the world is in danger.
     
    When I looked it said,
     
    911
     
    All three would meet us at the warehouse after I cleaned myself up.  It took ten minutes to convince Cas I wasn’t hurt and to make him stop touching me from