Leman by Serena Akeroyd

Author:Serena Akeroyd [Akeroyd, Serena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Serena Akeroyd Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2020-01-05T06:00:00+00:00

Eight

“Where the hell have you been, Sanguenna?” a stranger asked, striding toward the table at the head of the room where Lara was sitting.

It was hard for Georgios not to tense up at the accusation in the male’s voice, but Lara didn’t react, so he decided that was the best option for him too.

They were in the council chambers of her coven. A novel concept to him.

Though covens answered to the Emperor and his court, individual covens didn’t usually allow their members to question their leaders.

Lara’s diplomacy shouldn’t have come as a surprise, not after watching her interact with her staff at the coffee shop for all this time, but it did.

The room was huge. Large enough for the eight-hundred strong coven to congregate in and with comfort. The coven’s chambers were, ironically enough, in an old Presbyterian church. Lara was currently seated at a table beside the pulpit, while the members of her coven were in the pews.

He had to hide a smirk at what humans from Lara’s time would make of this. Vampires in a church.

Considering they’d believed holy water and sacred grounds to be sacrosanct, weapons against Vampires even, this was proof positive that wasn’t the case. He wondered if that was why she’d chosen this place for their meeting grounds… Thumbing her nose with the cosmic joke.

Knowing her, probably. His lips twisted ruefully at the thought.

The church was Methodist plain. As in, there was little comfort, barely any decoration. Color came from a rather plain stained glass window behind Lara, but in the dark of night, none of the hues came through obviously. The prayer cushions for people to lean on were embroidered with religious scenery, but the pews weren’t carved or embellished at all, and the pulpit wasn’t either.

All in all, he decided that Catholics knew best when it came to the interior decoration of a holy temple.

Not that it mattered, of course.

Especially not for a Vampire’s purposes. They didn’t even believe in a deity, unlike his kind who believed in the Mother of All.

Using this place as a meeting ground was definitely a thumb at the nose at humans.

Though the man had accused his leman, Lara just flicked a glance at him, and he stuttered in his tracks, plunking down in the pew nearest him.

From what had happened to Megan and Lara’s own surprise at how well she’d forced the compulsion on the girl, he could sense this was a new gift. For certain, she’d been able to compel daywalkers before, all supes knew about that talent, and throw in the daywalker’s venom that he’d only learned of recently, it was all starting to fit why they’d need such a thing to even the balance between the two walkers. But Lara’s ability to compel had been incredibly strong tonight. To the point where he, even with his many years, had never seen the like.

Did this new gift come from all the blood of the ancient Sanguenna she’d supped?

What with that and her immediate desire for hot chocolate and a panini, he thought Lara was far more powerful than she’d ever been.

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