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Night Fall on Dark Mountain
Book: Night Fall on Dark Mountain Read Online Free
Author: Delilah Devlin
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okay?”
    “I’m fine. What about Darcy? I can’t see her on the monitor. Joe, what’s happened to Darcy?”
    Joe’s gaze fell on the dying woman, and his eyes filled. “Stay inside until it’s safe. Don’t open the door until I tell you.”
    “Joe!” she cried out.
    Navarro grabbed his arm. “Sweep the house. Make sure there aren’t any more cur-dogs inside.” Best to keep him busy venting his rage in a productive way—and keep him away from Quentin.
    Joe’s shoulders bunched, a refusal on his lips, and then his gaze fell on Darcy one last time. His mouth twisting in a snarl, he nodded and left the room.
    Alone with Quentin and his dying wife, Navarro hesitated. Since he’d opened his heart’s door to Sidney, sentiment flooded in, bringing overpowering surges of anger and grief. He felt awkward, even inadequate, but needed to offer comfort, while at the same time issuing a command that would devastate one of only two men on the planet he considered a friend.
    He knelt beside Quentin and placed his hand on the other vampire’s shoulder. “Quentin, you have to let her go. She was bitten by a wolf.”
    Quentin reared back his head and roared, his face crackling as his vampire mask presented fully. He snarled, but kept his hand poised above the woman’s unmoving lips.
    Navarro understood his pain, but he also understood the woman’s soul was already gone—stolen by a wolf’s bite. If she were turned into a vampire now, her bloodlust would be uncontrollable. If she lived.
    Blood pooled in her mouth, and she had yet to swallow.
    Navarro’s jaw clenched at the gruesome evidence of her suffering. For so long he’d kept himself apart from others, building a wall around his heart. Their thoughts, their pain, even their joys had made him writhe inside. Over time, his heart had grown cold—and blissfully inured. Until Sidney. She had changed all that in just a few days. What would he do if he were faced with the same gut-wrenching decision?
    Perhaps he had only to bide his time and let Quentin come to the realization his woman was lost to him. Her body was likely too damaged to withstand the transformation anyway.
    He rose and backed away, then closed the door behind him to shut out the sounds of Quentin’s anguished breaths as he sobbed, his lifeblood seeping away as surely as Darcy Albermarle’s humanity.
    *
    The wolf rushed through the open door, into the darkened room beyond, his claws clattering on the tiled floor.
    Woman! Mate! He had to find her.
    Following wolf scent and the musty odor of blood, he sped through the room and up the curved staircase toward the light beckoning at the top.
    Heedless of any danger, the wolf charged upward, stretching his limbs to leap several steps at a time in his desperation to find her—the slim, dark-haired one.
    At the top of the stairs, the wolf came to a halt, hackles rising on his shoulders and back at the smell of blood—wolf blood. Bodies stretched on the floor before him, blood soaking the carpet beneath his paws. But what gave the animal pause were the looming, growling figures that faced him, standing above the corpses.
    Enemy! Danger breathed in their combined rage.
    The wolf started forward, first left then right, retreat being impossible because the dark-haired woman was nearby and sobbing. The sounds of her harsh cries brought up a howl that echoed in the narrow hallway.
    The wolf heard the sounds the men made, harsh and loud, echoing in the hallway, but didn’t comprehend, only recognized the hatred tightening the voice of the nearest man-like creature.
    Another sob drew his attention, just as the nearest foe leapt, wrapping powerful arms around the wolf’s throat—so tight he couldn’t breathe. He wriggled and jerked, gnashing teeth, but the man held fast to the wolf while another drew a shining rope over his muzzle.
    Another spate of harsh sounds and a moment later, a jolt knocked the breath from his body and brought the wolf to his haunches,
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