"Blood traitor!" Mimi hissed.
"Put down your weapon, Azrael," Kingsley said quietly, still holding his own.
"You will not find me such easy prey as the others," she spat.
"What are you talking about?" he demanded. "I saw the black smoke from the street. My God, what has happened here?"
"You set this up. Don't play the innocent. We all know what you really are, Croatan." Mimi spat, shooting him a look of pure disgust.
"I realize it is hard for you to believe, but I have only just managed to escape from a rather nasty stasis spell myself," he said sourly. "I went to pick up Alfonso for our usual golf game, and the next thing I know I'm trapped in the back of my own car. As soon as I extricated myself I came down here to warn the others."
Mimi sniffed. A fine story Kingsley was telling her. Playing the victim once again. Yeah, right, he'd been detained. When it would have been so easy for him to leave the house from the back and come in the front door.
But what would he gain by keeping her alive? Why didn't he just finish it off? Gut her throat and be done with it?
"Where's Lawrence?" Kingsley coughed as several explosions shook the ground beneath them. "I tried sending him a message, but I couldn't find him in the glom."
"He's not here," Mimi said, noticing that Kingsley had lowered his dagger. She could kill him now, while he was unguarded. But what if he was telling the truth? Or was his act just another part of the trap?