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    “Police!” I shouted. “Get out of here! Now!”
    I didn’t need to tell them twice. It only took a few seconds for my command to compute then all four of them sprinted in our direction. The vampire in front of me hissed as they rounded the building, disappearing from sight.
    “You’re going to pay for that,” he promised. His face contorted and he bared his fangs, letting out another feral-sounding hiss.
    Mitch appeared at my side, his stake held aloft. When I turned to gauge his expression, he didn’t look happy. I couldn’t understand his problem—the odds weren’t too bad. I’d fought off as many as five vampires single-handedly in the past and now there were two of us. We could handle nine vampires between us.
    “I don’t like this,” Mitch said in an aside. “Stay close.”
    I was about to respond when the head vamp lunged with supernatural speed. To the human eye he would have been nothing but a blur, but as a hunter, I had the same speed and strength as a vampire. I had just enough time to duck to my right to avoid his razor-sharp claws, which were extended and aimed right at my throat. I turned, lifted my stake and plunged it into his back before he had the chance to come at me again. I twisted it and at the same time plunged it deeper. I knew I’d hit his heart when he let out an unearthly scream, falling to the ground on his knees.
    That was when the situation got a whole lot worse.
    As soon as I pulled my stake free from the vampire’s back, the other eight charged forward at the same time, all hissing and growling and baring their long, lethal fangs. Vampires were usually pretty damn cocky, believing they could take you out alone. They would often wait on the sidelines to get their shot at you, but these vampires weren’t taking any chances. I felt Mitch’s body slam into mine from behind.
    “Keep your back to me,” he shouted. “Don’t let them get behind you.”
    I hadn’t planned on it. If a vampire got behind you, it was game over. I fought with everything in me and even though it was difficult to fight while keeping my back plastered to Mitch’s, his presence escalated my confidence to a level it had never been at before. I caught one vampire in the jaw with a left hook and planted my boot into the stomach of another. I staked him in the shoulder blade, hitting his heart from behind as he was doubled over, wounded from the kick. Two down…
    The three other vampires in front of me attacked in unison. I fought off two, but one managed to find purchase on my wrist and he twisted my arm at an awkward angle. I cried out and had no choice but to separate from Mitch so that I could turn my body and flip the vampire over onto his back. I heard Mitch’s roar of frustration behind me, but I was too busy fighting off the vampires who were attacking aggressively to turn and see how he was doing with his own fight.
    At some point during my tussle, I managed to stake another vampire in the chest, hitting the dead centre of his heart. I was beginning to get tired, but there would be no end to the fight until each and every vampire had been dusted. I shifted position so that I could check on Mitch and noticed that he was now only fighting with two vampires, just like me. My relief was palpable, but it was short-lived. I’d only been distracted for a fraction of a second. It had been enough time for one of the vampires to grab hold of my arm and sink his teeth into the flesh at the underside of my wrist. I screamed as the pain washed over me.
    Ripping my arm free caused the vampire’s fangs to tear out a chunk of flesh and my wrist began gushing blood. I didn’t have the time to attend to it because both vampires attacked again. I matched them blow for blow, being extra careful to avoid their slashing claws and sharp fangs. I’d just raised my stake and aimed at the closet vampire’s chest when he leapt back and looked over his shoulder. The second vampire did the same. When I