Trying to bend over the bulk of the Kevlar vest cost me the moment I needed to grab a second stake from my boot. But no worries. One would do just fine. I kicked one of them in the stomach hard enough to leave me alone for the second I needed. Then I buried my stake into the heart of the other. When he disintegrated into a shower of bloody mist, I turned on the first vamp, just now standing up straight again. Boom. Staked him too. I was so much better at handling situations I was familiar with, especially when those situations wanted to kill me in a nice, straightforward way, rather than trying to make me do it myself.
"Are you lazy, Paul?" I asked the night as fat raindrops began to plink down. "Is that it?"
"Lovely..."
I whirled at the sound of his voice. The rain fell harder, drip
