Blood Letter (Blood & Fangs Book 2) by Riley Storm

Author:Riley Storm [Storm, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: High House Press
Published: 2021-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

“I can’t believe you want to free this asshole,” Dani said as we marched up a footpath through the mountains. “You do know that he’s the one who created all these problems for you? And your mother.”

“Of course I know that,” I said. “He did it because he needed to save her. Not because he wanted to hurt her.”

Dani looked at me stonily over her shoulder. “Seriously? And you bought that? This from a being who spent the first few centuries of his life murdering everyone and everything in his sight? He went so overboard that Odin literally sent two gods after him to imprison him for eternity. What do you think one more human life is to him?”

“Given that he saved her and didn’t just kill her in a fit of bloodlust, that tells me that maybe, just maybe, there’s some truth to his story,” I said quietly. “Besides, talk to him yourself when we get there. He’s not insane. He knows what he did, and he’s remorseful. About all of it. That’s why he’s lived here, in the middle of the Underworld, mostly isolating himself from society at large. To protect them.”

“He also has a Blood Letter out on him,” she said. “Assuming what you said about the bounty hunter is true.”

“I know.” I’d told her all about what had happened after Queen Elenia’s palace, including our encounter with the bounty hunter. The only thing I’d left out of my story was my growing concern over Aaron.

Not that he wouldn’t be okay. I didn’t fear the bounty hunter would harm him. He was too good of bait. She’d hold on to him, knowing we’d surface eventually, and banking on one of us coming to rescue him.

And that one is me.

My concern was about my feelings toward the vampire. He was the one I thought about when I fought the Hunger. Memories of him strengthened me, and I was worried about what that meant.

“We could just leave him here,” Dani suggested, and not for the first time.

I sighed and moved past her as she came to a halt at a fork in the path. I took the right-hand route and continued. We were close now, and I didn’t want to waste any more time.

“He’s coming with us,” I said, recognizing one of the stone markers up ahead, hurrying my pace.

“I don’t get it?” Dani asked as I turned down the path that would lead us to the caves. “Why are you so insistent on him coming with us?”

“Because,” I said as the pathway ducked into the outer cave, revealing the inside and a figure lying on the floor, “I need him to teach me how to control this thing inside me. He can do it, and I need to be able to as well. If I don’t, I’ll never be comfortable walking on Earth again.”

“About time,” Fenrir rumbled, shifting his hips slightly, though his upper torso lay flat to the ground, the collar around his neck keeping him pinned.

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