By Winter Pennington
The place there's mild, the darkness awaits, by no means too a long way behind.Two hundred years in the past, Epiphany was once reborn a vampire. Sired via Renata, the Queen of the Rosso Lussuria, Epiphany willingly performed the function of the queen’s loved pet—until the day got here whilst she was once solid from the Renata’s mattress and misplaced the queen’s defense from the Elder vampires.Epiphany has performed her top to not turn into a objective, attempting to stay as inconspicuous as attainable, like a long-forgotten reminiscence huddling underneath the mantle of Vasco’s strength, her one actual good friend one of the Rosso Lussuria. yet now Renata has known as Epiphany forth to stand the demanding situations that would increase her extended family prestige to the ranks of the Elder. yet Epiphany has few pals and plenty of enemies, and the possibilities of surviving the demanding situations are slim.Surrounded by means of harsh vampire politics and mystery pursuits, Epiphany learns that an previous enemy is plotting treason opposed to the girl she as soon as enjoyed, and to avoid wasting all she holds expensive, she needs to embody and shape an alliance with the darkish.
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She asked. “Twenty-four years of age,” I said. ” “You are young,” she said, reaching out and brushing a damp lock of hair out of my face. ” Her fingers brushed the curve of my ear. A strange feeling fluttered at the bottom of my stomach. “Sleep,” she said. ” I closed my eyes. ” Her breath tickled my lips and I looked up. She smiled, inches from my face, holding the length of her body above mine. ” The low laugh she gave was like silk and velvet. Her eyes sparkled. ” Before I could speak, her hand slipped to the back of my neck.
Hawk-nose went to the door, speaking in a language I did not understand. When he returned and clutched my arm to drag me to my feet, I didn’t fight him. The dark-haired man that had helped take the two girls stood by the door. Hawk-nose shoved me in his direction, and I stumbled, tripping over my own feet and falling. Someone caught me. “She said unharmed, Severiano,” the man said. I really was unwell, for he had moved fast enough that the wave of nausea threatened to return. I swayed on my feet, held upright only by the man’s arm around my waist.
He reclined against the wooden bedpost with a look of sympathy. “You cannot keep avoiding her,” he said. “It has been a hundred and fifty years, Epiphany. You are in the full bloom of your powers. ” Things were serious when he used my name and not one of the many nicknames by which he called me. “I know how long it’s been, Vasco. ” I swallowed past the knot that tightened my throat. He didn’t understand, not completely. He knew full well what I had become when our Queen cast me from her bed. He had seen the wreckage of me, then.