Found, a Vampire Romance by Lori Devoti

Author:Lori Devoti [Devoti, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Fire and Fangs
Published: 2011-02-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Dorian stared at his brother, his outward demeanor calm but his mind whirring. Nancy wasn’t far ahead. He could catch her, but first he needed to shake his brother.

But how?

The stake was twenty feet away. Dorian knew exactly where he had tossed it. Did Cameron? Would he realize Dorian’s plan?

Only one way to find out.

Dorian lowered his head and began to pace. He mumbled to himself as he did, talked about their father and what Dorian had done for him. He gave Cameron information he knew his brother wouldn’t be able to resist.

It worked. As Dorian moved closer to the stake, Cameron moved too, but slowly and without speaking. He was listening, believing that Dorian was slipping again and, for the first time, hearing the truths that Dorian had kept hidden from him.

Dorian was over trying to please his father and his cronies. He was over hiding their messed-up deeds. Cameron needed to know the truth too. He deserved to know it, and this was the easiest, least painful way for Dorian to share it.

But Dorian wasn’t talking, his monster was— or at least that is what he hoped Cameron saw.

When the stake was at his feet, Dorian knelt and picked it up. His head bowed, he pointed the tip at his chest.

Then he looked up. “Help me. I can’t live like this. Not any longer.” He knew he looked pathetic, hair disheveled and his face strained. And he knew his brother would be unable to resist his plea.

Cameron moved closer, his eyes wary but also filled with regret. He was going to do what he thought he had to do, put down his brother as he would put down any creature in pain and at risk of damaging others.

Except this was one noble deed Dorian was going to stop his brother from completing.

As Cameron approached, Dorian held out the stake flat on his palm, handle out. Cameron reached for it, and Dorian moved. He closed his fingers around the blade, ignoring the pain as the metal sliced into his hand, and, shifting his body to the side, he kicked his brother in the back of the knees.

As Cameron fell, Dorian did to him what his brother had planned to do to Dorian. He slammed the stake into Cameron’s chest. Then he pushed his brother down and the stake forward until Cameron was flat on the ground and the stake was shoved through his body and into the earth beneath him.

Releasing his hold on the weapon, Dorian jumped back. Cameron, realizing what was happening, reached for him, but, for once, Dorian had the upper hand. As his brother’s fingertips brushed his arm, Dorian spun and raced after Nancy.

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It felt as if they had been walking for hours. Nancy had stopped looking at her companions a while back, and they seemed to have almost forgotten her existence. The pair chatted with each other as if she didn’t exist or perhaps as if she was too dim-witted to comprehend what they were saying.

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