Chapter 239: Chapter 239

The two Rogues nearest him split up, one taking cover while the other shouted that they were under attack. Elfar silenced the warning in mid-sentence, slicing his length of titanium-edged steel across the suckhead's throat.

A few yards ahead of him in the alleyway, the female was on her stomach, scrabbling to get away from her assailant. She had a weapon too, Elfar was surprised to see, but the Rogue noticed it at the same time and kicked it out of her hand. The Rogue planted the heavy sole of his boot on the center of her back, pinning her to the ground with his heel jammed hard into her spine.

Elfar was on him at once. He threw the Rogue off the woman, driving the snarling vampire into the side of the brick building and holding it there with his forearm wedged under the suckhead's chin.

'Get out of here!' he shouted to the woman as she started to drag herself up off the ground. 'Run!'