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wind, cutting and stabbing with pure grace. Watching him move was almost as pleasurable as fucking him, though Jericho would be damned if he’d admit it to the savage Kin.
    When he’d mauled through the humans Seino hadn’t killed, he joined him. Together they approached the wary cat limping away. She retreated facing them, her back to the woods, and she hissed and snarled at them to leave her alone. And then, in a split second, all hell broke loose.
    A loud cackle erupted in the greying sky like a shriek of lightning. Thunder rumbled, and the dead humans melted away into the soil, as if they’d never been. A beautiful, petite female appeared out of nowhere and moved around the dead felines, ripping their hearts out by plunging her small fist through each chest cavity. And she cast no scent. This, then, was the sorceress.
    The cat screamed and would have rushed her if Jericho hadn’t intercepted the feline. Instead, she bounced off his bulk. He didn’t know why he felt the need to protect the cat, but he instinctively knew if he let her touch the woman, she’d die.
    The sorceress had blonde curls and bright blue eyes that sparkled with cheer. She stepped away from a carcass with a heart clutched in her hand. In a disgusting display, she swallowed it whole, her mouth opening incredibly wide as she engulfed the organ the way a snake engulfed small rodents. Then the woman blinked, and the bulge at her throat and cheeks disappeared, along with the blood spatters on her mouth, clothing and hands.
    “The cats are tastier than the others, you know. Probably because they function best as familiars.” She spoke as if chatting about the weather.
    “You have killed Kin and shifter,” Seino said quietly. “But no more.”
    The menace Jericho sensed instilled caution. His amulet heated, and he backed the spitting feline behind him farther away. He didn’t fear Seino, but he’d seen the male fight. He knew better than to allow anyone to get between the Protector and his prey.
    Deep inside, Jericho felt the sword shudder with delight, eager to taste the sorceress on its blade.
    As if sensing its threat, the woman glared at Seino’s sword, then at him. “Stupid athmae. Don’t you know yet where you belong?”
    “Don’t you?” Seino smiled, his fangs sharp and threatening.
    Sexy.
    Hell, where had that thought come from?
    “You aren’t welcome in this plane.” She chanted long and loud, her voice surprisingly sweet. She threw her hands out at him and increased the volume of her song.
    Prepared for the worst, Jericho readied to leap at her and crush her throat before she could say anything more. Or perhaps swipe a claw down her belly and force a mortal wound.
    “Stay back,” Seino ordered.
    Power swelled. Seino didn’t move. The cat behind him didn’t so much as twitch. Jericho didn’t give a shit what Seino said. He couldn’t let the Kin die. He readied to attack just as their enemy fell silent.
    Nothing happened.
    She blinked. She chanted again and this time aimed her fingers at Jericho.
    Nothing.
    She screeched, and in her alarm, Jericho saw an image overlying the soft woman she represented to the world. A hideous void of nothingness centred over her heart and took place of the sockets where her eyes should be. Seino’s sword begged to fill the nothingness, to sink deep into that evil and soak it up like a sponge.
    The blonde shrieked, “I’ll kill you! Maybe not now, but soon. No matter. I don’t need your blood yet, demon. Yours or the bear’s.” The look she gave the cat promised pain. “But the cat will be mine before the next moon wanes.” She pointed to the bodies around them, and they vanished. “Tell the wolf I’ll be seeing him soon. All he knows and loves will be mine, his loss a terrible burden. The same way my world was taken from me.”
    She disappeared just as Seino took a step forward.
    Jericho shifted back into a man’s form. “Well, that was awkward.”
    “But telling. We’ve laid