Chapter Fourteen
A girl dressed in black swung a lead pipe at a young woman with striking blue hair. She missed, smacking the cinderblock wall as a young man swept the blue-haired woman into his hairy arms, yelling, “Why are you doing this? We’re trying to help you!”
“Metsis?” Alexxia ran to her, and when Conrad grabbed her arm she shook him off and kept on across the burnt-out space. “Oh my stars, Metsis, what’s happening?”
When she came between the duelling women, the girl in black dropped the lead pipe and stood there, slack-jawed. “Alexxia? You came back!”
“Sceptre?” She barely had the name out when the vampire girl threw both arms around her and pulled her into a tight hug. “I thought you were gone forever. I thought I’d never see you again.”
“Well, here I am,” Alexxia sa
