Chapter Thirty-Six

Keeva’s POV

‘Don’t be scared young one. I never wanted Admis to bring you to our lair. You all but destroyed our Clan in the woods last week.’ Her long sharp nails are painted blood red to match her lips, and her hair almost looks to be on fire, to match the burning red of her eyes. Is she here for revenge? Selina’s deep growl reverberates around the inside of my skull, and her request to be let out to kill this demon is rejected, for now. I want some answers and dead vampires don’t speak. ‘Elise, surely you haven’t come all this way to congratulate me.’ I move towards her and fear replaces her anger in an instant. The fire in her eyes is extinguished leaving only sadness to reside in its place. ‘You killed my lover.’ A single tear drop of blood leaves her eye, cutting a trail down her white skin as it falls. Only in stories told late at night, with the intention to horrify and captivate, were such things spoken of. I didn’t know vampires really shed blood as tears.

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