Blood Song: Division 7: The Berkano Vampire Collection by Lindsey R. Loucks & Fallen Sorcery

Author:Lindsey R. Loucks & Fallen Sorcery [Loucks, Lindsey R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charmed Legacy
Published: 2017-10-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

123 Hours Left

Hunger rumbled my stomach. Its severe emptiness had gnawed holes into my sleep, and I sat up in the dark with a gasp. Had I turned into a vampire? Would I even know if I had before it was too late?

But my heart still beat, as strong and true as it always had. Unless that sound was false and some kind of coping mechanism of the brain, I was still me. Still here. And starving.

I shifted on my mattress, careful of my bandaged leg, and knocked on the door. “Hendry? I think I’m okay. Would I know if I wasn’t?”

No answer. Maybe the sun had already risen, and he’d gone to collect Bast. A deep sadness welled inside me at the rush of memories from last night. I hoped we would have a memorial for him like we did at the church when someone died outside of the ritual. It seemed the least we could do for him as we celebrated his bravery up until the very last seconds of his life.

I tried the doorknob, and it turned fine, but something else was blocking the door. A sliver of panic bit into my gut. What if Hendry was still out there, but something was wrong? I slapped my hand against the door so hard it vibrated the hinges.

“Hendry?” I called.

Silence.

I slid down to eye level with the crack underneath the door. Nothing but the brothel entryway with thin stripes of sunlight angling across it. Maybe he was just in a deep sleep, and it was still too early to be awake. I settled back onto my blanket, but the mix of worry and hunger wedged between my eyelids like sticks.

Minutes—hours?—passed, but I didn’t see a trace of anyone outside the door. The brothel held silent, while I pounded on the door and yelled for Hendry. Judging from the shifting position of the sunlit stripes, I was sure seven o’clock had come and gone, which meant I was late for bathroom duty. But not even Tessa came by to drag me out by the ear and cast me out on the street for missing it.

I lay there on the floor, my stomach rioting from hunger, while I tried to work up enough strength to ram the door down. Where had Hendry gone? I walked my feet up the wood and shoved my soles against it in quick thrusts so the entire door shook, more to occupy my brain with something other than food.

And then the entire door came down with a loud crash. Books lay strewn across the floor, likely from the overturned bookshelf underneath the door. I scrambled backward and squinted into the rays of sunlight shining between the boards at the front of the building. People stood outside the fallen door, their mouths hanging open to their knees.

I hopped to the doorframe and hugged it, my eyes narrowed enough to cut all their heads off with a sweep of my gaze. “So no one heard me

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