Bound To Darkness by April M. Reign

Author:April M. Reign [Reign, April M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

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Apollo was not fully coherent when he reached his hand up to massage the pain in his neck. As his vision began to return, he saw a large rodent sniffing at his face.

“Get away from me.” He swung his hand at the animal and watched it run off. Where am I?

He pushed himself up onto his knees and brushed at the gravel that clung to his face and side from the ground where he was lying. He gripped the back of his neck while he tried to assess his location. He was not sure where he was, but he recognized the rancid, humid smell of the cave. The foul, thick air and rotted flesh made his stomach queasy. The small room he was in had three walls and one iron prison-like door with a huge padlock.

The only source of light in his room came from three pillar candles that sat on a makeshift wall-shelf just outside his cell.

He pushed himself up onto his feet. His shoulders and neck were sore from Vasco thwarting his attempt to save Sophie by throwing him against a tree. Apollo winced at the pain that shot from his shoulder down his arm. He shuffled his feet through the pebbles toward the bolted, thick iron door that sealed the diamond-shaped space where they left him.

His hands grasped the rusty bars, and he pushed and pulled to pry it open. It would not budge. Apollo tilted his head to see down the long hallway. His prison cell was at the end of a long tunnel. There was nothing but solid rock to his left, the pillar of candles on the wall four feet in front of him and the only tunnel passage to his right.

“Father!” he yelled. When his voice echoed off the walls, he cringed.

Once the echo of his voice stopped, the only sound left was his heavy breathing and the eeriness of the silence around him.

“Father, get me out of here. Father?!” he yelled again. The silence was eerie.

“Apollo, your father’s laboratory is too far from here. He won’t hear your distress call.”

Apollo was instantly quiet. He looked around startled because he thought he was alone, but the stranger sounded as if he were in a room next to his. Apollo did not recognize the stranger’s deep, raspy voice. “Who are you? How do you know my father?” Apollo was anxious for answers.

“I’m a prisoner like you. I’m here to tell you—”

“Are you a vampire?” Apollo’s mistrust interrupted the voice.

An uncomfortable silence lingered while Apollo waited for him to respond. “Why are you in here?” he impatiently asked again.

“I don’t have much time,” the voice said. “Your father has been misled.”

“What do you mean, ‘misled’?” Apollo’s voice rose with anticipation of what this stranger had to say.

“The night your family was attacked, I was there.”

“You were there?” Apollo questioned.

The mysterious voice in the other cell did not respond. The silence infuriated Apollo.

“Hey, I’m talking to you, what did you mean you were there?” Apollo grew angrier at each passing second that the silence lingered.

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