Blood Treasure Box Set (New Adult Vampire Romance) by Flynn Mac

Author:Flynn, Mac
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mac Flynn
Published: 2014-10-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

There was darkness for a long time, and then I slowly came to my senses. I shifted atop a pile of hard, cutting rocks, and moaned when my aching body told me not everything was okay. My eyes fluttered open and I glanced around. My improved sight allowed me to see the heavy damage done to the doorway and room. Half the ceiling had given way beneath the professor's frantic effort to save the remaining pupils. Rocks lay among the golden treasures, and dust covered everything except me. The entrance was destroyed, and that meant I was trapped.

I was safe from dust because Dmitri lay over me. His cloak was gray from the light dirt and as I moved so did he. He pulled back and I noticed one shoulder was at an odd angle while blood poured down one side of his face. Dmitri winced, but drew away from me, climbed atop the pedestal, and lay his back against his sarcophagus.

I sat up and moved to sit beside him. "Are you okay?" I whispered.

He shifted and grimaced. "A stone smashed my shoulder from its socket," he told me. I reached out and gingerly touched the blood on his face. He turned away from me. "Merely a scratch from another stone," he assured me.

"It doesn't look like a scratch," I argued.

"I am fine. These wounds are nothing compared to other times in my life." I cringed when he grabbed his injured arm and gave a jerk. There was a dreadful popping sound as the bone slipped back into bone. "What of yourself?" he asked me.

I peered down at myself. "A few bruises, but I'll live." I glanced around the darkened room without light or exit. "At least until the air is used up," I added.

Dmitri sighed. "There is always a way out for my kind, but for you I do not know," he mused.

"You mean turn into that shadow?" I guessed, and he gave a nod.

"Yes. This room is not so sealed as my coffin. The professor did not leave incantations to fix the lid, as it were," he explained.

"But I. . .I can't get out as I am, can I?" I asked him.

He looked me in the eye and shook his head. "No. I could try to force a way to the surface, but it could cause the remaining ceiling to give way," he pointed out. I glanced at the roof. He was right. There were large cracks in the ceiling that would dump the remaining stone blocks into the treasure chamber. "You have only two choices before you. Die here, or come with me," he told me.

I rose to my shaky legs and stumbled over to an ornate table opposite the pedestal and coffin. My mind reeled with the decisions. To die, or to die and find a new, dark life. I had chosen to go as far as I had. His blood flowed in my veins. I raised my hand and glanced at my pale, trembling fingers.

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