Chapter 47
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
Ryker
One of my bolts struck the woman in the back, lifted her off her feet, and flung her into a combatant. The man she hit tossed her aside without a second glance.
Before her body hit the ground, I sent another lightning bolt through the center of the guard’s forehead. The impact lifted him off his feet and threw him backward.
My other bolts had taken out most of the other guards, but two remained standing. They lifted their swords as they prepared to attack, but instead of rushing at us, they glanced at each other and sprinted for the door.
Before they could get away, Ellery’s lightning crackled across the small space and hit them both in their backs. Lifted off their feet by the impact, their bodies hit a wall as the cracked window shattered.
Glass sprayed across the floor and hit the tile in a cascading, tinkling wave. The body of another soldier thudded across the floor as it tumbled inside.
The man groaned and started to push himself up as a gargoyle landed on the edge of the broken windowsill. It perched there, its clawed fingers gripping the edge and its wings half-tucked behind its back.
The remaining servant sputtered strange sounds as he staggered into a counter and stood there, shaking and pale. The gargoyle leapt inside the kitchen, seized the guard’s head, and tore it from the man’s shoulders.
The servant let out a strangled squeak before spinning and fleeing further into the kitchens. He only made it ten feet before my next lightning bolt took him down.
Silence descended before more screams from outside shattered it. I felt no remorse for killing the servants; they’d had their chance to leave and didn’t take it. Because of that, they couldn’t leave this room alive.
The gargoyle’s head twisted toward the swinging doors as more shouts came from the hallway. Footsteps thundered toward us.
“Can you take care of them for us?” Ellery asked. “We have to keep moving.”
The gargoyle nodded. “I will see that they do not leave here alive.”
“Thank you.”
“Samael, get us out of here,” I commanded.
“This way.”
When he ran to the right, we followed.