Midlife Vampire Hunter by Shannon Mayer

Author:Shannon Mayer [Mayer, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hijinks Ink Publishing
Published: 2024-05-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

BREE

Alan was pale, even for a ghost, as he spit out his warning. I looked at Robert. “Now, we have to go now!”

He nodded and we started to plunk at the notes. The half an hour or so of practice we’d had would have to be enough. Slowly, the haunting melody filled the room as Robert and I hit each note, the timing just so. If not for the fact that I was fighting for my life and trying not to freak the hell out, I would have wanted to sit and listen to the notes that hovered in the air.

There was a heavy pause as the last note rippled through the air, and then the cages surrounding me and Ivan both dissolved. “Go, go!” Robert all but pushed me over the threshold where the bars had been.

Ivan didn’t move.

“Ivan…please,” I said. “You can still try to reach him, but here...you are at the mercy of not only Remy, but Evangeline too. She could use you against Remy.”

Ivan’s face fell and he took a step over the place his bars had been. “You’re right. I can still reach him.”

“Maybe sooner than you think,” Alan muttered.

Robert scooped up the semi-sharpened stake that Ivan had been making for me. As I took a step toward the stairs, I heard the scrape of the door above opening, followed by footsteps thundering down.

“Bree, who is helping you?” Remy bellowed before he ever hit the bottom of the stairs.

I looked to Ivan, who nodded. This was his chance.

Robert pulled me aside and Remy rushed past us, right into his father’s arms.

“Mon Dieu!” Remy snarled.

“You will listen to me, my boy,” Ivan said.

We didn’t wait to see what happened. We couldn’t. If we were to stop Evangeline, then we had to go, and quickly.

Up the stairs we went, and through a door that led into a shallow pantry. There was no food that I saw, just shelves of wine.

“This way,” Alan ran ahead of us, “toward your fish friend.”

Robert’s hand tightened over mine as we bolted through the castle. My bare feet were at least quiet—but there was no one to hear us. The castle was eerily quiet.

The vampires were all hunkering down for the day.

“This is her.” Alan slid right through a door, disappearing from view. I pulled on the handle.

“Locked,” I whispered.

Robert tried it. “Damn it. Maybe there’s a key⁠—”

“Here.”

We spun to face Richart. He looked…haggard. “I think she knows it was me. You need to flee. There is a place on the island, an old house, one that is…she is afraid of it. It is hidden from her sight, I made sure of that.”

“Why?” I said, I had to know why he wouldn’t just want to kill me now.

“You could have turned me in to her, you didn’t. This is the repayment I give you—a chance to live.”

He shoved a large key into my hands. I took it. “Thank you.”

“Thank me by surviving. Or killing her.” He glanced at the wooden stake in Robert’s hand.

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