Ansuya stopped a smile from creasing her lips. Although the tactics of covering the exits was sound, leaving her alone with a lone vampire was not. Alexander’s confidence was amazing. Did he really think that entering someone like Kenneth’s compound would be as easy as he was making it seem? Then again, she knew Kenneth for what he was, and he left nothing to chance.
“Let’s get moving people, we have bloody work to do,” he said with a wicked smile. The other two vampires returned the smile with smiles of their own and quickly got back into their cars. Ansuya got into the passenger side of Hanna’s muscle car. The woman jammed her foot down on the gas pedal. The tires screamed as smoke immediately bellowed out around the car and the car lurched forward as it dove down the exit ramp.
The trip to Kenneth’s compound was a silent one. After the theatrics at the parking garage, Hanna controlled her vehicle with restraint. It wasn’t long before Ansuya started to recognize some of the street names. They were getting close.
From the GPS on the dashboard of Hanna’s vehicle they had about 2 miles left to go before the woman suddenly turned the vehicle off into a side road. The car coasted for a dozen feet with the headlights off before the blue-eyed woman turned to her.
“What are you planning, dog?” There was hatred in her eyes.
“I’m not planning anything,” Ansuya said a bit flustered. “I don’t know what you mean?” A hand slapped the right side of her face.
“Don’t play games with me, dog,” Hanna sneered. “Alexander would never just decide to go after someone like Kenneth. What did you do to him? Why does he care about you so much?”
“I…I don’t know what you mean,” Ansuya said with wide eyes and feigned terror. “I care about Alexander. I want to see him succeed and show Wolfgang that he deserves better than what he got.”
The blue-eyed woman squinted at her and gave her a long sideways glance. “I don’t trust you. If you try anything tonight to get him or any of us killed or hurt you won’t be breathing long enough to enjoy any of it. Do you understand me, dog?!” Ansuya nodded slowly. Hanna nodded and pulled the car back out of the alley way and continued to their destination.
The three cars met two blocks away from Kenneth’s house. The cars circled each other, Alexander made some hand motions and Hanna drove away. Ansuya wasn’t sure what she was feeling. There was an eagerness to get to Kenneth’s compound. But the site of her torture was something that she wanted to see burn to the ground. This would not be a happy return for her.
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She glanced at Hanna as the woman drove, her focus completely locked on the street in front of her. Then Ansuya saw the walls surrounding the compound. She saw the multi-level house top rise above the wall and the trees surrounding it. She recognized the look of the windows that would match the French double doors in the back of the house. Hanna pulled the car past the house and then followed side streets to reach the back side of Kenneth’s compound. She stopped in a back drive way of the nearest house from Kenneth’s, a few hundred yards distant.
Ansuya waited. Hanna got out of the car and was sitting on the hood acting like she was looking at the stars. Ansuya could tell from her tense shoulder muscles that she was nervous. She had more brains than Alexander did, that was for sure. Ansuya could read in her body language that she knew things would not be as easy for the two men as Alexander had alluded to, and yet she stayed where she was told to.
The sound of gunfire exploded suddenly. The sound of automatic weapons rang out through the still night, shattering the serenity of the darkness. From her vantage point Ansuya could see small eruptions of red and orange as the muzzle fire from automatic weapons lit up the night. A loud crash and splintering metal and wood rang against her ears. Hanna was sitting bolt upright as the crash was added to the sound of gunfire.
Alexander has breached the front gate, Ansuya thought. Hanna was standing next to her car. There wasn’t much time for her to act. She silently opened the passenger side door. The door swung open with a small whine that was left unheard amidst the distant screams and gunfire still sounding off against the night.
Ansuya crept around the car. Hanna’s full attention was on the unseen gunfight happening just on the other side of the wall. Ansuya was beginning to pick up the smell of blood mixed with gun powder. If she could smell it than Hanna could. Ansuya said a silent prayer to Shiva and shifted.
There was a bright blinding light and pain in every fiber of her body. Every muscle stretched and tweaked back in on themselves. Ansuya gasped at the sudden unexpected pain. That gasp caused Hanna to turn around. The vampire was standing face to face with an over six- and half-foot tall werewolf staring her in the face.
The vampire immediately threw a blinding punch to her snout, which Ansuya easily blocked. The transformation had been painful, but now that she was once again in her werewolf form she was fully functional and ready.
Ansuya blocked everything the vampire could throw at her with ease. She suddenly grabbed one of the vampire’s fists and jammed it back on its wrist, breaking every bone in that hand. Ansuya swept Hanna’s legs out from under her but held her up by the hand she had just broken. She looked into the vampire’s blue eyes. They held hate and a despair that she had failed. Ansuya felt no pity for the parasite, she had received none. She grabbed Hanna’s head and before the vampire could call out, slammed her face down through the concrete of the driveway, crushing her skull like an egg.
Not wasting any time Ansuya, grabbed her small bag from inside the car and then ran on all fours from the murder scene and scaled Kenneth’s wall. Ansuya landed with an expertly timed shoulder roll. As she popped up out of the roll she seamlessly shifted back to her human form.