Monsters and Mortals - Blood War Trilogy Book II by Dylan J. Morgan

Author:Dylan J. Morgan [Morgan, Dylan J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: DJM Entertainment
Published: 2013-08-09T19:00:00+00:00

SIX

Santi Quattro Coronati

Rome, Italy

The broadband connection loaded the web page in less than two seconds. Anton guessed the computer’s cache file must be filled with information from this site. He wondered how many times Markus had sat here and gazed through the details and images of his daughter’s autopsy; how often he must have punished himself by looking at these gruesome pages.

Anton himself didn’t know if he could stomach perusing the internet site, but felt he had to in order to get a feel for the atypical prey the coven had now placed under bounty.

Last night’s attempt at bringing the damned mortal to justice had failed. Dante lay in a hospital infirmary, his skull fractured, the internal bleeding thankfully stemmed. Two vampire Enforcers were there now, dressed as police officers, trying to gain his immediate release. The infernal human had not only managed to run from his hometown before being apprehended, but now he’d also eluded one of the coven’s more superior vampires. Anton prayed to the Elders that the man would not be so lucky a third time.

With a clenched fist to his mouth and eternal sorrow tearing at his heart, Anton gazed at the web page.

Anatomia di un vampiro.

The words stained the top of the site in bold red font. Anton almost expected the letters to drip blood. Using smaller font beneath the main heading, the words were translated into English: Anatomy of a vampire. Centralized over a black background was a full length photograph of Gabriella laid flat on a steel dissection table, her body covered by a white sheet. A British flag and an Italian flag were located under the picture, giving the user a choice of two languages.

Anton shifted nervously in his seat, took a sip of cooling water, and clicked on the Italian version.

The dark background remained but the image changed to a full length one of the princess devoid of the covering sheet, her naked flesh exposed to the world. Although at one time he coveted a view of her unclothed form, he never wanted it to be like this. The picture had been taken looking at her left side, dark hair dragged up and away from her face, exposing her neck and the savage laceration disfiguring her throat.

Seeing the wound again pulled horrendous memories from the dark of his subconscious and bathed them in a light as bright as the one streaming through the hotel window on that summer day last year. Anton sat uncomfortably in the eighteenth century baroque chair, gazing at the computer monitor, and relived the anguish of entering the room expecting to see a slain mortal only to find the horrendous visage of Markus’s precious daughter clinging to the last threads of life.

He blinked to sever his gaze from the brutal image, and a tear glided down his cheek.

A menu tree stretched down the left hand side of the web page and Anton glanced at the first heading. Autopsia risultati. He clicked on the banner and the connection downloaded the information.

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