Hunted by the Vampire by Miranda Thorn

Author:Miranda Thorn [Miranda Thorn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Miranda Thorn
Published: 2024-10-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

When we settled in the car, we both sat back with a sigh of relief. We hadn’t died tonight, but calling the evening a win would take it too far. After a minute, Jasper started the car, and it was only when we were rolling down the road that my shoulders unclenched.

Jasper broke the silence first. “Well, Priscilla has no self-awareness.”

I scowled at him. “You’re joking about this?”

He sighed and shifted in his seat. “Of course not... Trying to, maybe? Shit. It’s too fucked up to do much else. I don’t think much of vampire hunters, but how does a vampire hunter become… that?”

I wasn’t sure. Priscilla had always been cruel, but she at least hadn’t been working with vampires watching them murder people. I’d done some shady shit in my career as a vampire hunter, but that particular line had never been blurry.

Or had it? I’d watched as they’d killed tonight. From the outside, did I look any better than Priscilla? I thought I had my reasons, but maybe I was just as bad. Maybe she intended to kill Cyrus? Was she secretly hunting big game at this party?

There was something about it that didn’t ring true to me.

“Do you think she’s planning to kill Cyrus?”

His jaw tightened. “I think she’s lost her fucking mind. She tried to kill her daughters.”

“That’s different.” To a witch from Priscilla’s line, becoming a vampire was the height of disgrace. The fact that Kori couldn’t kill her sister was also a black mark.

Jasper snorted. “It really isn’t. You’ve been in with these witches for too long. All their bullshit made-up rules. Love for her children should have trumped that. I don’t know if she was always unstable or if being inhabited by a demon left its mark.”

He was silent for a second. “I don’t like that Cyrus wants you at this party. He was very deliberate about that.”

“Which likely means he has something unpleasant planned.”

“My thoughts exactly.” He licked his lips. “I don’t think you should go with me.”

I scowled at him. “Why the hell not?”

“It’s going to be fucking dangerous? Cyrus kills who he wants when he wants. Benny might find his parties amusing, but I know better. If Benny had said one thing to even slightly inconvenience Cyrus, he would have killed him with his bare hands and had no problem sitting through dinner covered in his entrails. This is a purebred psycho we’re dealing with. I could never keep you safe. Hell, I won’t be safe.”

I leaned over the center console. “He has my sister, Jasper.”

“What if she’s already dead? He could be playing us.”

I shook my head. “No, I’d feel it if she were dead.”

The look he gave me was pitying. His words were soft when he said, “You’re not a witch or a psychic, hummingbird.”

I didn’t want his sympathy. Not now. Not yet. Too much of it, and I might cry. I stayed rooted in determination. “Sometimes regular ole’ humans know things too, and I know she’s not dead.

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