Blood Bound: A Dark Urban Fantasy Novel (Reign of Blood Trilogy Book 1) by Becca Blake

Author:Becca Blake [Blake, Becca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-11T22:00:00+00:00

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Miria paced in the same cell she’d been held in after attacking Aeidan. It felt like it had been hours since they’d separated her and Zephyr, and no one had spoken to her since.

She gripped the cell bars tight and pushed her head through as far as she could, just enough that she could peer down the empty hallway.

“Let me out!” She kicked the cell door. Pain shot through her toes and up her leg.

What were they doing with Zephyr? And why did they take him away? The unanswered questions gnawed at her as she waited in isolation.

When Lucian finally appeared from around the corner, he wore a furious scowl that distorted his features.

Miria crossed her arms and scowled back at him. “Are you going to tell me what’s going on?”

“You don’t know why you’re here?” Lucian asked.

“Obviously not.”

“And you don’t know why we took the other elf? He’s your lover, is he not?”

Miria stilled at that. Coming from the vampire, the word seemed cold and distant—nothing like what she had shared with Zephyr. But since he seemed to already know the answer, there was no point in lying. “Yes.”

“What do you know about his recent activities?”

Miria clenched and unclenched her fists. “I’ve been staying with him the last week or so. Whatever you think he did, he didn’t do it. When he hasn’t been working, he’s spent the nights with me.”

“And you haven’t seen anything unusual in his home? Or noticed him acting strangely?”

“No.”

“I see.” Lucian leaned back against the wall across from her cell, arms crossed.

“What exactly is it you think he did?” she asked. “Maybe I can help.”

“We received a tip that appears to be accurate.”

“A tip from whom?” she demanded. “Was it Aeidan?”

The guard pursed his lips, but didn’t reply.

Miria groaned. That must have been what he meant about Zephyr watching his back—after his thorough embarrassment at the Silver Leaf, he must have run to the guards spouting lies and trying to get them in trouble.

“You’re not an idiot, Captain,” she said. “At least, I don’t think you are. I’m sure you can see that he’s just trying to get back at me.”

Lucian nodded. “I did think so myself. At first.”

“But?”

“But then I saw the evidence for myself.”

“Evidence of what?” Miria asked.

Lucian stared at her through the bars, considering her for a while. His stoic, expressionless face revealed nothing of his thoughts. “You really know nothing,” he said finally, more to himself than to her. The door creaked as he unlocked it and pulled it open.

“I can go?”

“Yes.”

“And Zephyr?”

“I suspect you’ll be seeing him later,” Lucian said. “Trust me when I say you do not wish to join him right now. Go home, and do not come back here tonight.”

As she shuffled past him in the narrow hallway, he grabbed her arm. The menacing look in his eyes was enough to make her blood run cold. “If I find out that you knew anything about your lover’s activities, I will execute you myself.”

The vampire escorted her out of the watchtower.

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