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.Seriously,how the fuck had he managed to forget his gun? But even as hecursed himself, he ordered Erie forward.The temperature in theroom rose at an alarming rate and the carpet burned whereverhe stepped on it.The men fired at him, but the bullets onlyricocheted around the room.Blaze swore and dove for thekitchen as Erie knocked two of the men down with his immensetail.They screamed as the touch burned their flesh throughtheir clothes.In the kitchen, Blaze saw his gun on the counterwhere he'd left it while he was cooking.Seriously, he was the world's biggest fucking dumbass.Another roar joined Erie's, and relief shot through him whenhe realized Rafael and Conway had returned.Keeping low to theground, Blaze craned his head around a cabinet to look.Leo wasgone, which was ominous.The men were all distracted by Erieand Conway, and they'd put away their guns probably to avoidhitting Rafael.Blaze took aim, and fired, the noise of the gun making hisears hurt.His target dropped like a rock, and he wasted no timein hitting two more.But the sound of the shots had barely fadedwhen more men burst in.Too many.Fuck.Four came after him,but Blaze only got in two more rounds, one shot missing, beforethey tackled him.He was no pushover, but three against onewas shitty fucking odds when their only goal was to kill him.Blaze cried out as they slammed his head into the counter,then shoved him to the floor and started kicking him.Wherewas Erie? He couldn't hear the dragons anymore.What the fuckwas going on?He heard the cock of a gun and laughed bitterly.It wassupremely fucking unfair that he was going to die and his last146 | Megan Derr  Sword of the Kingmemory was of being turned down after his one and only try attaking the initiative with another human.The gun went off, and Blaze flinched, expecting pain.Whenit didn't come, he opened his eyes and barely managed to rollout of the way as three bodies dropped to the floor.Hestruggled to his knees and saw Ken standing in the doorway.Hewas banged up and bloodied and, from the expression on hisface, livid."What in the hell is going on?" Blaze demanded."Later," Ken said as he crossed the kitchen.He grabbedguns off the guys on the floor, pressed two of them into Blaze'shands, then grabbed his wrist and dragged him to the door.After carefully checking that the coast was clear, Ken draggedhim into what was left of the living room.The place was a fucking disaster.What hadn't been burnedwas shattered in bits of ice.All the furniture was destroyed, andbullet casings littered the floor.The only thing missing wasdragons."Where's Erie?" Blaze asked, fear filling his veins."They took all the dragons," Ken said bitterly as he wipedfutilely at a badly bleeding cut on his forehead.Picking up ascrap of something from the floor, he pressed it to the woundand continued."They busted in here like their asses were onfire.Don't think they were here long before you showed, butthey had Amr and Cam out the door in seconds, andunfortunately Nev followed shortly thereafter.I don't knowwhat the fuck happened with you and Raf."Blaze shook his head."I don't really know either.I came inthe back door and they came in the front.Leo told them to killme, but try to take Erie alive.""Must have just come back from hauling the others out,"Ken said grimly."They knocked me out, probably thought I wasdead.By the time I came to, it was too fucking late.""Erie tried to warn me," Blaze said quietly, recalling thatmoment when he'd snapped at Erie for bugging him."I didn'tlisten, I was too upset with myself.Damn it, what is going on?"Ken went to the front window and stared out it."I have nofucking idea, but they knocked Amr and Cam out fast.They147 | Megan Derr  Sword of the Kingshouldn't have been able to do that.Do you know how fuckinghard it is to do anything to a Holy Pendragon? And to a prince,which is what Amr became the moment he bonded.He wasalready good with magic, now he's on par with sorcerers.Butthey knocked them out like it was nothing.""They must have figured something out, maybe modifiedthe changer drugs.""All I know is they'd better be ready when I show up toshoot them all in the face and take back what's mine!" Kensnarled."No stupid fucking syndicate has the right to mydragon, the Holy Pendragon, or my friends!"Blaze scrubbed at his face, shunting away his own fear tofocus on how best to get the job done."First, we need to cleanup and get sorted.You aren't going anywhere while you're stillbleeding.Let's get you patched, then we'll figure out the rest.We'll get them back, though, you can bet your ass on that.""Damn straight," Ken said [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]