CHAPTER TWO
Sonia couldn't believe her rotten luck. She had managed to lure the vampire to Lilah's office by calling in a tip to him about something Lilah had that he might want to take from her before it caused hundreds of deaths. It was an easy thing for her to stumble into Lilah's office pretending to be looking for another lawyer. A quick one-two with the spell and Sonia was down the hall before Angelus was loose.
How was she to know there was a dead fall escape route that Lilah could scurry down like a rat? Now Angelus was on the loose and she needed to make sure he got back on Lilah's trail. She just needed a better plan.
"Great idea, Angelus." Penn zipped up his pants and tossed the cheerleader onto the floor. He glanced to the back to the pep squad bus where Angelus was still assaulting a little blonde from one angle while doing creative things with her pom pom and her backside. Penn felt a frisson of jealousy. His sire was the master. Penn had missed out on so much not having Angelus around to help him grow in their dark art.
"I'm known to come up with them from time to time." Angelus tossed the girl half way out the bus window. Glass shattered and she dangled there, her backside covered with blue and gold fringe. Licking his lips, Angelus yanked his pants up. He joined Penn in surveying the busload of dead cheerleaders. It hadn't been hard to waylay the bus on the way to a game. It was fall. The sun went down early, which gave them all the time in the world to play.
"We'd better go, Angelus." Penn cranked open the bus door. "They'll be looking for this bus when it doesn't show for the game."
"Anything you want to do next?" Angelus stepped over a dead cheerleader on his way out of the bus.
"Your town, Angelus. You pick," Penn said, willing to sit back and watch his sire create chaos. "But I wouldn't mind getting to know that woman you were chasing when I met you tonight. Dangerous women can be so much fun."
"Lilah," Angelus purred her name. "She's as wicked as she is shapely."
"Sounds like a woman we can enjoy for a good long time," Penn replied, his fingers trailing over his crotch at the thought.
Angelus grimaced. "If she's smart, she's hiding away in her home where we can't touch her."
"Well, we've gotten around that before." Penn liked the idea of getting a feisty bit of female between his teeth and getting himself between her legs or whatever opening offered itself.
"Come on, I know where to find her." Angelus cracked his knuckles and headed back to his muscle car.
Sonia waited for Lilah in her SUV. She couldn't let the other woman reach the sanctuary of her home. She knew Angelus wouldn't be able to get Lilah in there and that would never do. She saw Lilah's Mercedes coming around the corner. Sonia gunned the engine and slammed right into the side of the dark car.
Even braced as she was, Sonia was jarred. Lilah's car was nearly bent into a V. The lawyer's head rested against the air bag. Sonia got out, hoping she had killed the bitch but Lilah raised her head, barely a scratch on it.
Lilah almost fell out of her car, shaking. She groaned a bit, trying to steady herself. She caught sight of Sonia. "You idiot! Didn't you see that stop sign?"
Sonia clubbed Lilah with her heavy leather purse. "Stay away from my man, you slut."
Lilah stumbled back and fell over the curb. Her head clipped the sidewalk and she yelped. Sonia kicked her. "Lindsey's mine. You can't have him."
"Lindsey?" Lilah tried to sweep Sonia's legs out from under her, sending her to the sidewalk. "What would I want with him?"
"Don't lie! I've seen you together." Sonia shook off the pain and got up. "No one's stealing him from me again."
Lilah fumbled in her purse and came out with a large cannister of pepper spray. She squirted Sonia. The other woman fell back, gagging. Lilah got to her feet unsteadily. "I don't know who you are but you can have Lindsey. He's not tall enough to go on this ride."
"Whore!" Sonia wiped her eyes with her shirt. "Why won't you die? This accident should have killed you. Angelus should have slaughtered you like you deserve."
"You're the one who turned Angel into Angelus? How'd you do that?" Lilah gave Sonia an approving look.
"Like I'd teach you my magic." Sonia brought a pistol out of her purse, her eyes tearing too much to get a good aim. "Now you're going to die."
Lilah heard the screams, suddenly realizing their confrontation had garnered an audience. She took a page from her attacker's book and slammed Sonia's gun arm with her purse. Lilah ran for the SUV which still had its keys in it. Sonia peppered her own vehicle as Lilah drove off. She screamed wordlessly then took off before someone in the crowd decided to be a hero.