Blood Hunt (The Bloodborn Series Book 1) by Iris Walker

Author:Iris Walker [Walker, Iris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7: Pursuit

Lucidia

She’d been thrown back in the prison cell, with no word of plans for her retrieval.

There was likely a caravan already on its way, prepared to take her back to Darian.

Except that wouldn’t happen.

Lucidia had gotten a little distracted over the past few weeks, but she was still the daughter of Kenzo Draxos, and one of the most cunning strongbloods alive.

She needed Darian’s strongbloods to come get her because she knew their schedules inside and out. She’d trained most of them, for god’s sake. Even though they’d take precautions against that, she knew the alternate schedules just as well. There were only so many combinations you could take. It would be a matter of observation, planning, and action.

And after she weaseled her way out of Darian’s grasp, she would go after Robin.

Reykon was still hell bent on getting her to Magnus, which would be just as much of a death sentence as Darian would be.

One thing she’d been sure of: Reykon had put a tracker on Robin. It was the only possible way he could have found Robin in the middle of the Colorado Rockies.

Once she was free, she’d be able to call Maxine, who could hack into Demonte’s servers (which were about as lamely protected as Xander’s) and get the tracker ID based on proximity.

The thing about vampires was that they’re very strong, in their own habitat, but they had a tendency to stay hidden away, in caves and castles. That was all well and good, if you had people to take care of things for you, but it also left them isolated. Lucidia, over the years, had forged relationships across the web of freed supernatural creatures, living in the human world.

The nameless, the defected, the traitors; taboo labels used to distinguish vampires and strongbloods who don’t belong to any of the Great Houses, or the lesser ones for that matter. If a strongblood operating for a House comes across one of these, law says that the offender must be executed, or brought for sentencing. But the dance between policy and practice was often a complicated one; in short, no strongblood alive was going to execute one of their own kind that had gotten free and stayed alive long enough to become established in the human world.

The nameless were much too useful, and well hidden.

Lucidia had built herself a fairly strong rapport with this lot. And they had something that would be of great use to her: a sort of underground railroad, used to smuggle strongbloods, blood slaves, and even the occasional vampire out of the Houses.

She’d never used the railroad herself, but she’d used those that operated it. They had a remarkably good ear to the ground about the goings on of everything supernatural.

Vampires were strong, but they had no outside allies. And, in terms of strategy, Lucidia would rather take ten good arrows over a single harpoon any day.

She would get free of the transport, find out where Robin was going, and find a way to get there with the help of her contacts.

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