Masquerade (Vampires Realm Romance Series Book 10) by Heaton F E

Author:Heaton, F E [Heaton, F E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Rose Publishing
Published: 2012-05-12T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Vivek nursed his flute of blood. It had gone cold thirty minutes ago, around the same time that he had finally managed to locate Sophis. She had disappeared after he had first set eyes on her and he had lost her in the crowd. When he had found her again, she had been with Lord Hyperion’s group, held tight in the Validus vampire’s arms as though he was protecting her from the temper of Lord Valentine. Vivek had taken a step forward, intent on tearing her away from Lord Hyperion, before he had got the better of himself. Hyperion could kill him with a single blow and Sophis was unlikely to thank him for his heroics.

Sophis had escaped the powerful vampire’s grasp shortly after that and the man had said something to her that had changed her expression of anger to one that held a note of sorrow or loneliness. She had stood there alone for a few seconds before turning to watch the dancers with an edge of longing. Did she want to dance too?

She was dancing now, although she didn’t seem to like her partner. Vivek was close enough to the edge of the dance floor that he recognised the man as the Chosen Son of the Nocens bloodline, a vampire of considerable age and power. Sophis was alluring as she spoke to the man, saying things that Vivek couldn’t hear, and he wanted to dance with her too, wanted to cut in and claim her as his partner.

She looked so beautiful and elegant, turning on the dance floor, the long train of her scarlet dress caught up in one hand, revealing enough of her white stockings to make him ache to know how the soft fabric would feel under his fingers. The candlelight played on her hair, highlighting each curl pinned and tumbling from the back of her head with shimmering gold threads.

The music shifted and Vivek was so lost in watching her that he missed his cue. Sophis twirled out of the Nocen vampire’s arms and into those of a tall man wearing black.

Vivek growled.

He knew that man. If he hadn’t recognised him from the years that they had seen each other in this mansion, he would have known him from Sophis’s reaction.

She dipped her head as the man spoke to her, a smile on his face and warmth in his ice-blue eyes, and she nodded, her mouth barely opening as she responded, as though she was too shy to speak loudly in his presence. They turned together in circles, Sophis allowing him to guide her and move near to her, letting him break proper etiquette by coming close enough that their bodies brushed with each step. The man spoke to her again and she didn’t look him in the eye as she answered. Her reaction to him turned Vivek’s stomach and made him feel as though this man had total power over her and she would do whatever he wished.

Her sire.

Why did he have

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