Devoured By Darkness by Alexandra Ivy

Author:Alexandra Ivy [Ivy, Alexandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-4201-2024-0
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2010-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

It was his simple honesty that stole her breath.

Along with her higher brain functions.

I don’t know …

She could return the sentiment.

The damned vampire had her so twisted in knots she didn’t know if she was coming or going.

One minute she wanted to zap him into a little pile of dust and the next she wanted to back him against the nearest wall and do wicked things to his hard, perfect body.

Lost in the honey gaze, Laylah nearly came out of her skin when Styx’s voice boomed through the intercom.

“Tane. I need you upstairs.”

Tane stiffened, his grip tightening on her arms.

“Not now,” he growled.

“Now,” the ancient vampire snapped back.

“Damn.” Tane abruptly stepped back, his expression tight with frustration. “I won’t be long.”

“I’ll come with …”

“No, my sweet.” Tane firmly overrode her words, folding his arms over his chest. “If Styx wanted you to join us then he would have asked for you.”

She frowned, her mood tilting toward the whole turning him into toast rather than licking him from head to toe.

“So I’m supposed to wait here like a good girl while you decide my future?”

“It’s much more likely that this has nothing to do with you, Laylah.”

Her hands clenched at her sides. “Yeah, right.”

“Have you forgotten that Styx is the King of Vampires and I’m his Charon?” He held her gaze, his painfully beautiful face impossible to read. “Stay here.”

Her heart forgot to beat.

Shit. Did he think that made things better?

“Tane,” she said as he headed toward the door.

He halted and turned to meet her worried gaze. “Yes?”

“What if this is vampire business?”

He shrugged. “Then I’ll do my duty.”

She was standing directly in front of him without knowing how she got there.

“A Charon’s duty?”

Another shrug. “Yes.”

Let him go, a voice whispered in the back of her mind.

With Styx and Tane distracted she would have the perfect opportunity to escape. Perhaps the only opportunity.

But instead she grabbed his arm, her gaze glued to his face as if she were desperate to memorize every elegant line and curve.

“What does that mean?”

“Now is not the time …”

“Please, I need to know.” She tightened her grip until her nails dug into his flesh, already suspecting that his position among vampires not only was one of power, but of intense danger. “What exactly does a Charon do?”

She felt him tense, as if he were startled by her fierce reaction.

Hell, he couldn’t be any more startled than she was.

Minutes ticked by until at last he brushed his fingers through her spiked hair.

“It’s not common knowledge, but there are vampires who become addicted to the blood of alcoholics and drug users,” he said, his voice instinctively lowering as he shared the private weakness of vampires. “It eventually drives them mad. If I don’t track them down and kill them before it’s too late they will go into complete bloodlust.”

A ball of ice formed in the pit of her stomach. “What happens?”

“They will go on a mindless rampage and they will destroy everything and everyone in their path.” She sucked in a shocked breath.

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