Blood Cursed by Sarah Piper

Author:Sarah Piper [Piper, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Two Gnomes Media

Eighteen

Gray

Haley Barnes?

I wasn’t even sure I’d heard Deirdre correctly, but the time for questions had passed. We were back in front of Inferno, too close to Sebastian’s many spies to continue this conversation so candidly.

“So, that’s Las Vegas,” Deirdre said loudly, presumably for any of Sebastian’s guards in the vicinity. “I’m so glad I got the chance to show you around. I’ll take you back inside now.”

She grabbed my elbow, steering me toward a service entrance near the back.

“But, what about—”

“There’s no time, Gray,” she muttered quickly. “Ronan’s going to meet us any minute. He asked me to take you to see Darius first.”

“Darius?” The idea of finally seeing my vampire and reuniting with Ronan was enough to settle my nerves and hit the pause button on my many questions. “Where is he? Is he okay?”

“He’s… stable. The blood overdose is still working its way out of his system, and he—”

“Blood overdose?”

“He attacked and fully drained a demon after he got through the hell portal. I’m sure Ronan will fill you in on everything later. Come on—this way.”

Knowing Ronan, he wouldn’t fill me in on anything later, but what choice did I have but to shut up and follow her? I needed to see Darius, and I didn’t know if and when I’d get another opportunity.

We took the service elevators down to the basement level, then followed another long series of hallways until we reached another wooden door. Unlike the last one, this didn’t have any glowing runes or codes. Just a big-ass iron bar bolted across it.

Deirdre lifted the bar, then pushed open the door, revealing another dark chamber inside. This one was huge, though, and hot—nothing like Sebastian’s little meeting room upstairs.

I stepped into the entry, waiting for my eyes to adjust. The floor was a dull, dirt-colored wood that looked like it hadn’t been polished in decades, and the stone walls surrounding us were damp with moisture. Everything beyond the immediate entryway was cloaked in shadow.

Even my breath seemed to echo.

“Your vampire is inside,” Deirdre said softly. “All the way in the back. But… a word to the wise? Keep your guard up. He’s dangerous, Rayanne, despite the restraints and the hawthorn.”

“Restraints?” My eyes welled as I pictured him tied up and sedated. What had they done to him? He’d lost his memories trying to save me, and this was the homecoming they’d given him? “Darius would never hurt me.”

“But that’s just it. This vampire is not Darius. You must remember, he’s—”

I cut her off with a harsh glare, and she pressed her lips tightly together, as if she had to physically restrain herself from speaking her mind.

Darius had suffered memory loss. That didn’t make him less deserving of respect and kindness. It didn’t make him broken or some wild, untamed beast that needed to be restrained and beaten.

Deirdre hovered in the doorway a moment longer, as if she were still trying to decide whether to leave me alone with the man I loved. The man who’d saved me in the Shadowrealm.

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