A Shade of Vampire 33 by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-09-13T18:30:00+00:00

Hazel

I was relieved that Tejus kept his promise. What felt like fifteen minutes later—I couldn’t be sure exactly how much time had passed because my watch had strangely stopped working—the door to my chamber swung open again, and in stepped a tall (over six foot) wiry woman wearing what was clearly the garb of a servant, a plain brown smock with a wraparound apron, her sleek black hair wrapped in a severe bun. She looked quite elderly, her lips shriveled and lined.

“Prince Tejus has requested his brothers to allow a meeting with your fellow humans as a courtesy to you all,” she announced. “And they agreed. So I ask you to come with me. I will lead you to them.”

That was somewhat decent of him, at least. It did little to raise my estimation of him though.

I hardly needed to be asked twice. I rushed to the door, in such a hurry I almost tripped over my feet as I staggered out into a long dark hallway. The walls were made of deep gray stone, like in my sitting room, and aside from some carpets and several coats of copper arms and swords adorning the walls like trophies, it was bare.

I could hardly contain my anticipation as she led me down a winding staircase. We arrived in another hallway, lined with old wooden doors—all of them tall enough for sentries to fit through. We stopped outside one of them. She clutched the handle and pushed it open with a low creak, and the next thing I knew I was stepping into a small hall with a concave ceiling and a long oaken table… around which sat three familiar faces.

I practically cried with relief as I ran to them. They leapt from their chairs instantly. I first drew Benedict into a stifling embrace—his face was so pale with fear, his cheeks so cold—before moving on to hold Ruby and Julian, who had been sitting on either side of my brother.

“Oh, God,” Ruby gasped. Her long blonde hair was matted, her expression strained and exhausted. Julian looked no less ruffled.

“How have you been holding up?” I asked them in a hushed tone, as I threw a glance back over my shoulder to make sure that the maid had closed the door. She had, leaving us with what I hoped was some privacy. “They haven’t tried to crack into any of your minds yet, have they?” I asked, terrified by the thought.

“What does that even mean?” Benedict asked.

It struck me that their captors might not have been as talkative as Tejus was… or perhaps they hadn’t been gutsy enough—or stupid enough, depending on how you looked at it—to provoke answers from the brothers. Julian and Ruby looked just as clueless as Benedict about our situation. Poor things.

I proceeded to explain everything Tejus had revealed to me and by the time I was done, their faces had paled even further and they’d practically stopped breathing.

“Sentries,” Julian said hoarsely. “Who would have guessed.”

“We couldn’t have,” Ruby whispered.

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