Dream Walker: Blood Legacy Series Book 1 by Elise Hennessy

Author:Elise Hennessy [Hennessy, Elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Flutterbye Trail Press
Published: 2020-05-12T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

Alex

ALEX FELT LIKE a chihuahua in a dog park full of great danes as they sat in a semi-circle on unforgiving stone with some of the world’s most powerful vampires. Sure, he’d thought up until the moment of meeting them that he was a big dog, but now he saw how far he still had to go.

These men and one woman were the origins of the vampiric race, the pinnacles of power and fortitude. And being in the same room as them was nearly as unbearable as Adrius’s concentrated bitterness. There were no smiles or camaraderie, only sullen stares. Not that he could blame them, waking to an entirely new world after a betrayal and with more problems already afoot.

Five sets of haunted maroon eyes were fixed on him and Violet as they described why they were there. There were other Blood Princes, they’d shared. Prince Elandros, the Legion, had disappeared on the same eve as Lucia, and Prince Taryn, the Blade, was jailed somewhere for everyone’s safety. They hadn’t asked any questions of that.

“So, she’s figured out a way to leave,” said Prince Sirius, the Dawn, whom Alex had taken the keenest interest in. The eight main bloodlines of vampire kind were named after the Blood Princes, and he was primarily of the Dawn line. His inner beast cowed in his elder’s presence, recognizing a powerful and Ancient beast within Sirius.

Of all of them, Sirius was the most alert, his hands balled into fists at his side. He wore a workman’s overalls and heavy boots, modern clothing found or borrowed from the mortals somewhere on the island. They were at odds with the shaggy, dark hair he wore long and a well-groomed beard patterned with several intricate braids and knots from battles long-ago won.

Alex wondered uneasily what these Ancients had told those mortals and if their secrets would soon be outed since they hadn’t known better than to share. They’d discovered quickly that Nyixa was a dead zone for electronics. Any messages in and out of the island would have to be relayed when the sender was back with civilization. But if those messages were already en route…there was no way to stop them now.

Sirius shook his head with a frustrated growl. “She’s always ahead of us. We should’ve killed her while we could.”

“Gwendolyn squashed that plan, remember?” rumbled the big man to his side. Clearing nearly seven feet tall was the largest man in the room, Prince Korin, the Bane. He spoke with slow authority and gentle, languid motions, but Alex wasn’t fooled by the gentle giant act. Korin had all the muscle and easy menace as the ideal warrior of old. Considering he’d survived the war on the Fell species, he must’ve been deadly indeed.

“How could I forget?” Sirius bit off, his lips drawing back in a snarl that’d make Alex’s inner beast quake in fear. “We need a plan. A new plan. I’m sick and tired of cleaning and babysitting fat mortals.”

Violet covered her mouth to conceal a gasp while Alex understood the insult for what it was.

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