Blood Traitor (The Blackthorne Vampires Book 2) by Kim Loraine & K. Loraine

Author:Kim Loraine & K. Loraine [Loraine, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-15T18:30:00+00:00

Cashel

The fire in the hearth crackled and danced, casting its glow across the dark library. I took another long drink straight from the bottle of wine in my hand. Olivia was everywhere. In my thoughts, my home, my memories. I couldn’t close my eyes without seeing the hatred in her expression or feeling her lips move against mine. My chest still stung from the bite of her blade on my skin. She’d been close enough to kill me. All she’d needed to do was sink that dagger into my heart and I’d have been a goner. So why had she stopped?

The clink of bottles rolling into one another pulled my attention from my inner turmoil. “God, brother, how much have you had to drink?” Lucas stood to my left, his focus on the five empty wine bottles turned on their sides.

“Not enough.” My words were slurred, but only slightly. It wasn’t enough to dull the pain. “What are you doing here? I thought you’d left us all for dead.”

“Afraid not. I had to…sweet talk my way out of trouble with a coven, but you know me. What I lack in breeding, I make up for with devastating charm.”

“Callie is going to die.”

“We’ll find a cure.”

“I know. Olivia is upstairs in my room right now.”

Lucas scoffed. “So you took her again.”

“She wouldn’t come otherwise.”

“That didn’t help last time.”

I shook my head. “Everything is different now. I don’t know what to do.”

“Why? Because you love her?”

“Yes.”

He snatched the wine bottle from my hand and took a long pull. “Well, that’s a solid answer.”

“She loves someone else.” I grabbed the bottle from him and tipped it up, only to find it empty. Fucking asshole.

“She can’t possibly.”

“It’s true. She’s in love with him. Father was right. Always was.”

“Do you honestly believe that?”

I thought back to the moment I’d asked her if she loved him. At the cabin after we’d escaped Blackthorne Manor, when I’d told her I loved her and she hadn’t responded. I should have seen the signs. She never lied and said she felt more than lust. But I’d been blinded by my connection to her. “I was a fool.”

He snorted. “You still are. You said she almost killed you?”

I pulled open my shirt to show him the angry burn over my heart. “She had a silver blade.”

Brows raised, he crossed his arms over his chest. “Seems to me like she loves you.”

“Death threats aren’t typical expressions of true love, brother.”

“Well, if I’m seeing things right, she didn’t kill you when she had the chance. She let you go because she desires you.”

I didn’t want to let him strike the spark of hope in my chest that was already smoldering despite all evidence of Olivia’s hatred. So, I ignored him. I returned my attention to the flames as they licked the wood and listened to the hisses and pops of the fire. But the seed was planted now, and I knew I wouldn’t be able to let this go. She’d spared me when she could have killed me.

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