Kane's Mate (Armageddon Mates) (12 page)

Faith pulled her long knives with their tips iced. She yelled, “The major and I will kill the minions.”

The werewolves nodded, and Rane hesitated for a moment, glaring at her. She raised her eyebrow at him, daring him to say anything. He sighed and joined the others.

Faith turned to the major who looked like he was trying to mask his horrified expression. “Major, remember to cut the wings, then the heart and head.”

He nodded, pulling out the knives Rane had given him.

They ran into the minions, the major on one side and Faith on the other. About half the minions turned to attack them. She tuned out the women’s screams, focusing on the ugly creatures that flew over her head scratching and biting. She arched, stretching her arms up, then swung them down in an arch, slicing the wings and one minion’s head. She spun and took a step forward, taking more wings. She then focused on stabbing the hearts. Faith whirled again, moving her arms in a circle, catching the last of the minions attacking her.

Faith swore as zombies came after her and the major. She swore again as she looked at the frozen look on the major’s face, knowing that Rane had failed to tell him about zombies. As zombies were about to kill the major, Faith yelled, “Fuck, look out, major!”

He turned as she chopped a zombie’s head off.

“They’re not humans anymore. Look how white they are, their eyes are black, they only listen to their demon master, and they have inhuman strength. Focus, major!” she yelled as a minion and zombie attacked her. That seemed to get through to him as he attacked them with renewed strength.

Faith spun, slicing minions, only to smell smoky sulphur and be grabbed by a demon.

“You are the one we really want. I will get my reward for bringing you in.”

Faith could feel his long talon nails sticking into her head as he lifted her off the ground by her hair. She guessed him to be about twelve feet, so before he turned her to face him she calculated the distance to the ground. Praying, she screamed and turned, lifting her arm and slashing it behind her. He roared and it sounded like scratching nails on a chalkboard. Faith cut his hand off, flipping and landing hard on her feet to stand in front of the demon. She managed to avoid its spiked tail as he swung it at her, but his foot kicked her and she fell back, landing against the wall. She silently thanked Jamie for the specially made clothes and Rane for the shit-kickers.

Her hands burned from the demon’s acid blood and her body ached. She looked up at the massive demon. His red skin glistened, his horns were long and sharp. He smiled down at her, showing his sharp, long, pointed teeth. Faith calmed herself, knowing she had to stall as she knew more minions and demons had arrived, keeping the four werewolves busy. Faith felt the major come slowly up beside her. She signaled for him to get behind the demon and mouthed
head
. The demon laughed, the grating noise making her shudder.

“Ahhh, I see you are getting desperate now, using ordinary humans.” He laughed again. “They are nothing but food, slaves, and playthings, but don’t worry, there won’t be many left when we take over this planet. Our army will destroy most of them, pitiful things. The ones we do keep alive will become slaves, breeders, and cattle to us for food.”

She ignored the horrible images flashing through her head, knowing the demon was telling her this in the hope that it would distract her. He cackled and lunged for Faith, batting the major with his tail. She danced out of his way, slashing his arms, which gave her a chance to get close to his back.

She yelled to the major as she cut his tail off. “Go to the front and try to stab the heart, but whatever you do don’t look into his eyes, that’s how they lure you in so they can bite you and drain your blood which turns you into a zombie under their control.”

The demon roared in pain as Major Black gave her a nod to show he understood. She climbed up his back as quick as possible, slashing his hand as he tried to reach her. He bucked and shook, trying to get her off, but she clung on for life. She knew she only had a small amount of time to get out of the way before he died and dropped to the ground, crushing her. Brushing up against the alley wall, reaching his massive shoulders, she held her special knives and wrapped her arm around the demon’s neck. He grabbed her arms, and just as she felt her body start to get squished up against the wall she used all her strength to bring her knife hand toward her.

“Heart, now,” Faith screamed at the major.

She knew he complied as the head rolled forward and the body fell against her. Using the wall, she leaned back and kicked her feet out, jumping off before he fell back again.

Finally running over to the three crying and terrified women huddled together, she looked down at them. She really needed them to cooperate before more demons or minions arrived. Looking into each of their eyes Faith told them, “Stop now! No more crying. Pull yourselves together or you will die. I need your cooperation to get out of here.” She made sure she looked at each of them. “Get up now, follow me, do not run away, do not touch anything. Got it? All you have to do is follow me.” She turned to one of the women and asked for her car keys. “I know you have a large car that we will all fit in.”

The woman passed over her keys as they all got up nodding at her. They moved past Jamie and Devlin fighting two demons and four minions. Faith could see four demons’ bodies near them.

One of the women behind her yelled out “Stacy” then broke away, trying to reach her friend.

“Fuck,” Faith swore. “You have to be joking. Now you decide you want to save your friend? Fucking idiot.”

She turned, nodding to the major to take over, and grabbed the woman as one of the demon’s tails slashed the side of her face.

“Shit!”

Faith sliced the tail off, pushing the woman out of the way. The minions turned to attack. Faith arched up on her toes, coming down, slicing wings then heads, knowing she had little time with the human woman’s injures. She decided to help her boys. Running, jumping on the demon they fought, she cut the tail off. She didn’t hesitate this time as she climbed up and wrapped her hands around his neck, slicing it off. She jumped off, bracing for the fall, and grabbed the woman, running after the major and the other two screaming women he was dragging to the car.

Faith scanned the area for Rane and Blake. Her heart fell when she saw ten minions, four demons, and six dead demons scattered about. She knew they couldn’t last much longer, as they looked barely able to stand with their broken bones, cuts, and bruises. Their werewolf healing couldn’t keep up with all the demons and their attacks. Usually it was one demon to two werewolves, so they were greatly outnumbered. She debated what to do and sighed in relief when Jamie joined in.

Devlin came over to her with Stacy in his arms and placed the woman at her feet. “Guard her for a minute. Yell if you need help,” Devlin said as he ran over to help the fight.

She nodded and knelt down to help Stacy and to check the woman she had saved.

The women cried, “Is she dead? Please, she can’t be. Wake up, Stacy!”

Faith ignored the women, focusing on their surroundings. Dead demons and minions were scattered everywhere. She had never seen so many, other than in her Armageddon visions. Fuck, they really wanted these women. She grabbed the phone from her vest to call Jack.

“We need major clean up here, Jack. They sent a lot more then I saw in my vision. Get here quick, I don’t know how much longer Rane and Blake will last. They’re in bad shape.” She gave their coordinates and hung up.

Jamie came over to her. He grabbed his phone, took a picture of her, then picked up Stacy. “Get the girls to the hospital. We’re taking Stacy and Lexie back to base. Kane will see to them. The major will help you out.”

She nodded, then frowned. “Jamie, you didn’t just take a picture of me, did you?”

He shrugged then grinned. “What? You look so hot right now. This is going on my wall.”

She couldn’t help it, she laughed as she grabbed the woman, dragging her to the car the major had started. Faith pushed her in the car, angry with the woman’s silliness in going after her friend alone.

“Drive, major. She’s losing a lot of blood from the cut on the cheek and other places. I know the other women aren’t in much better condition either.”

They drove to the hospital in silence.

* * * *

Half an hour and Kane was out of there. He had pulled a double shift, well almost a triple. He couldn’t wait to get home to his princess just to breathe her scent in and hold her close. He sighed and looked up to find his friend Dr. Jerome Stark.

“Are you deliberately ignoring your pager?”

He glanced down at his flashing pager. “Sorry, long day. Do you know what this is about?”

His friend smiled. “Yeah, our wet dream just walked in.”

Kane chuckled. “You paged me to tell me this!”

Jerome shook his head as they headed for the emergency. “Four twenty-somethings just come in with a Major Samuel Black. Three of the four women are injured with what looks like bite marks with flesh missing, cuts, and bruises. The fourth woman is the one I want. She doesn’t seem to be injured.”

Kane started to feel uneasy. As they got closer to the emergency room his wolf began growling as his friend continued.

“She’s wearing black boots, tight black leather pants, a pink vest, and I’m not joking, buddy, she looks like a leather-clad Lara Croft but her breasts are bigger and her ponytail is almost to her backside.”

Kane was walking so fast now that his colleague almost had to run to keep up with him.

“They’re in room ten as it’s the biggest. Kane, you can look after any of the others, but my fantasy woman is mine to check. Those brown eyes...”

Kane could already smell her over the disinfectant hospital smell. He bit his tongue to control his growl as he entered the room. Jerome headed toward Faith. Kane growled, shoving him against the wall. Jerome’s eyes rounded and he looked at him with a shocked expression.

“Consider this a warming, Jerome. Friend or not, stay away from my wife.”

He let go of him and stepped back, turning his head when he heard Faith speak. “Oh shit, I’m in trouble.”

He glanced around the room. Three women were lying on beds, and his mate was sitting on the one in the corner, a man standing beside her…Major Black, he assumed. Kane ignored everyone else, going straight to Faith, knowing he was being unprofessional but not caring.

“Princess, where is Jamie?”

She sighed. “Hi, honey. Don’t worry, I’m fine.”

He frowned at her.

“Fine, Jamie is heading home where I hoped you were because your medical skills could be used.”

He cupped her face and kissed her gently. A cleared throat interrupted him. He glanced up to see Dr. Jerome, who stared at him like he was trying to figure out a puzzle.

“I’ve called Dunsty and Callum as this is too close to you, Kane.”

Kane nodded at Jerome. Ignoring everyone else for a moment, he stared at Faith. Taking her hand, he pulled her off the bed and out of the room with the major following. Kane was furious.

“Why the hell are you here, Faith, out without protection?”

He didn’t care what had happened, she was his mate, the next alpha female. Everyone better be dead or he would kill them. She was fucking pregnant. He held his wince as he thought that, glad he was only ranting in his mind because he was the only one who knew beside Arden, and he would kill Arden if he had let her go out.

Jerome cleared his throat again behind him. Kane growled.

Faith sighed, and she stepped forward, holding her hand out. “Hi. If you didn’t figure it out already, I’m Kane’s ma...wife.”

Jerome’s smile was huge. “Ah, the famous princess. I’m Dr. Jerome Stark.”

Jerome laughed as Faith turned a pretty pink.

“Can I ask what your name is? Kane has never said it, he always calls you princess.”

Faith laughed at this. “Faith, Faith York.”

Kane growled. “Faith Wolfen.”

Jerome nodded and smiled. “Can I just take Kane away for a moment?”

She nodded, shooing him off. They walked over to the nurse and doctors station.

“You have a lot of explaining to do, Kane. They have a clearance one for the situation for the girls in emergency, there’s a list of questions I’m not allowed to ask, not to mention the condition of the women. Shit, Kane, do you know what the hell is going on?”

Kane watched as six more military men came in.

“They’re making everyone sign a confidentiality agreement. What the fuck is going on?”

Kane tuned his friend out as he watched his wife introduce herself to the new military men. She was so hot in what she was wearing. He smiled, thinking of all the fantasies he was going to get her to fulfill when they got home.

Jerome nudged him again, sighing. “Just go, Kane. I can see I’m not going to get an answer, and if I had a wife who looked like that I wouldn’t even be here. Go take her home, because you’re an idiot if you don’t notice how most of the men in here are eyeing her.”

Kane nodded, wiping the smile off his face as he knew his teeth had lengthened. “Thanks.”

He went over to the group of military men to introduce himself. He already knew two from his days in the military. He excused himself and Faith.

“I’ll take you home if you give me five to ten minutes to get my things.”

She smiled up at him, looking exhausted. “Thanks, I’ll call your dad to tell him not to send anyone then. Major Black will be coming back with us.”

He nodded and gently pulled her into his arms. He leaned down, kissing the top of her head. As he glanced back up again, he groaned.
Ah, not tonight.
The woman just wouldn’t give up. “I’m sorry, princess.”

She glanced up at him, confused. “What are you sorry about?”

He turned her around, leaning down to whisper in her ear. “For what’s about to descend on us. Dr. Bethany Balanco.”

“Dr. Wolfen, I have a patient I want you to meet,” Dr. Balanco purred out.

He gripped Faith tighter, shuddering in revulsion. It wasn’t that the woman wasn’t pretty, it was that she never gave up. No matter what he said, she threw herself at him every chance she got.