Disclaimer: I do not own these characters they belong to James Patterson.
My vision was blurry when I first blinked open my eyes. I could feel the heat radiating from Fang's body that was pressed against my back. What the hell had just happened?
I jerked when I heard a piercing wail coming from Lily's room. "Fang? Fang, you have to move something's wrong with Lily!" His body didn't even twitch. Panicking, I pushed against the floor until I had a little bit of leverage and rolled us over so that Fang was on the bottom.
Looking down at the unconscious form, I nearly screamed when I saw the blood on the floor. I felt around the back of my head and concentrated to see if I could feel any pain. Nothing. So the blood was Fang's.
Since there seemed to be no cuts or gashes anywhere on his front, I was about to flip him onto his stomach when another wail filled the room. I scrambled to my feet and started to cautiously move toward the room.
Behind me, Fang groaned in pain. I froze, oh no, what was I supposed to do? The sound of my daughter crying was piercing me driving me to go into her room, but behind me the love of my life was in pain and possibly dieing.
The decision was made for me when a cloaked man came out of Lily's room…with Lily in his arms, screaming and crying her small eyes out.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?! Put her down!" I yelled, charging at him. The man said nothing and headed for the gigantic hole in the wall that was sure to attract neighbors and cops soon.
Outside I head the whir of sirens and the loud sound of the blades of a helicopter. My eyes widened and I darted towards the man. A ladder descended from the copter and the man grabbed hold, the helicopter turned and flew off, taking Lily and the mystery man with it.
Oh, no. Oh, hell, no. I was frantic and spread my wings. I took off after the copter, using my enhanced speed and maneuvering to follow the massive machine. In just a few moments, though, I lost sight of it and its swirling blades.
This wasn't good, I could fly at freaking break neck speeds, damn it, how could I lose sight of a helicopter?! I landed on a nearby roof to look around again, just to make sure that I hadn't missed anything.
Dropping to my knees, I sobbed. Why was this happening? Who could or would do this?
What had I done wrong?
The howling sirens of police cars stopped my sobbing. They were heading toward my apartment. If they found Fang…
Blearily, I took off again, heading back to him.
