Heiress of Lies by Smith Cege

Author:Smith, Cege [Smith, Cege]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-02-11T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

Connor felt the waves of heat coming off of Angeline’s skin, but she was shivering violently nonetheless. Her anxiety level was high, and he could tell that she was barely holding on against whatever her internal demon was pressuring her with. He was amazed at how much control she had at such an early stage. The stories said that most often, newly born wraiths had no sense of their previous lives or memories for days or even weeks. They had no motivations at all other than to feed.

“Talk to me,” Angeline said through chattering teeth.

“What do you want me to talk about?” he asked.

“Tell me about what you have done with your afterlife,” she said. “Is it as wonderful as you thought it would be?”

The comment rankled Connor, but he knew that part of what he was hearing in her voice was the other one, the one that would taunt him so that he would get angry at her, and give it a reason to take over.

“My sire is the Chief Deputy to the Master,” he said. “He made me when he was creating a private guard for the Master’s safety.”

“You’re the Master’s bodyguard?” she said, looking at him in surprise.

“Not anymore. Not for a long time actually. I wasn’t very good at it,” he said. He had been terrible at it. His anger at Monroe meant that he had gone out of his way in his early days to do the opposite of whatever Monroe told him to do. He was constantly getting thrown in the seclusion chamber and was regularly denied blood until he was so weak from hunger that he couldn’t stand. But he didn’t bend. He didn’t want to be what he was, and he certainly had no desire to guard the one that ruled his afterlife.

Luckily, or unluckily, however you looked at it, the Master had found his insolence more of an amusement than anything.

“The Master finally told Monroe that clearly my interests lay elsewhere, and he released me from his service,” Connor said. “Monroe said that I had to make myself useful to the coven somehow. So I tended to the library and read everything I could get my hands on about how the vampires came to be.”

“If you hated what you had become so much, why would you go through the trouble to learn something like that?” Angeline asked.

“Know thy enemy,” Connor said with a wry grin. “And I wanted to know if there was any chance that I could be cured.”

He felt Angeline move against him and he looked down. She was staring up at him with gaunt eyes. She was there and she was in control, but something else lurked behind her gaze.

“A cure?” she said.

“Sure,” he said lightly. He didn’t want to say too much, but his story seemed to be helping her stay focused. “Just because this is the way I am, I refused to believe that this is how I had to be forever.”

“Did you find one?” she asked.

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