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CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE

Author: A.I. Blessing
last update Last Updated: 2022-09-16 08:24:11

When you're as near to death as I was, being flung across the room by a master vampire and hitting a wall doesn't hurt as much as you might think when you're in that position.

Through the haze that filled my eyes, I watched his feet as they traversed the room to get to me. I heard and felt my ribs fracturing, but I didn't feel any pain.

Damn, I'm not dead yet.

I could feel a dull aching in my neck when Lord Lothaire grasped the back of my neck and lifted me off the floor. I couldn't help but giggle since I must seem like a bloody marionette.

He took me from room to room, past human slaves who were prostrating themselves on the floor as he approached. I hung limp in his arms as he moved through the rooms.

After pushing through a door, I found myself in a bedroom set up like a torture chamber with all the necessary equipment.

As Lord Lothaire went about the room, he threw me against the wall, and I immediately felt a searing agony in my side.

When he came back to me, he pulled me into a
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