No One Will Believe You (Liars and Vampires Book 1) by Robert J. Crane & Lauren Harper

Author:Robert J. Crane & Lauren Harper [Crane, Robert J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ostiagard Press
Published: 2018-04-16T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

I held the stake out in front of me like a dagger. “Don’t come any closer!”

Mill took a step toward me.

My hands began to tremble in earnest, but I kept the stake pointed in his direction.

“I’m serious!” I said.

Mill lifted his hands in the air. “Listen, Elizabeth … if that’s your real name …” He nodded his head in the direction of Theo’s body. “We aren’t all like him.”

“Oh yeah?” I said. My brain felt like it was thundering along on a freight train, a hundred miles an hour in any direction. Part of me hoped with everything that I had in me that he was telling me the truth. It was too dangerous to hope for that, though. All I could believe in that moment was the power of the stake in my hands.

“Aren’t all like him? So that means that what, ninety-nine percent of you are?”

“No,” he said. “More like ninety percent. “

I rolled my eyes dramatically. “And what, you fall into that ten percent?”

He nodded.

“What makes you think I would trust you?”

Mill lowered his hands slightly, and then shrugged his shoulders. “There is nothing I could say now that is going to convince you. But I know something that might.”

I grimaced. “I’m not in the mood to play mind games. “

“No games, just the truth,” he responded. He took another step toward me.

“There is an entire room of vampires between you and your way out of here. If they catch you having done this … what do you think is going to happen to you?”

I adjusted the stake in my hands, still pointed at him. “So you aren’t going to curse me or swear vengeance for your friend?”

Mill spared the body a short glance. “He was no friend of mine.”

“Really?” I asked. “You looked pretty chummy to me. “

“Do you have any idea what it’s like to live in a world of heartless indifference? To live among a people who kill without conscience, without care? Who feed like locusts on human beings? Whose loyalty is so fickle, so transitory that the alliances change every month or so?” Mill’s gaze burned with intensity. “There can be no friends in this society; only allies of convenience.” He gave the black puddle that was Theo one last look.

Glancing back at the doors, he said, “I’ll guide you back through the room before anyone can come out here and find this. We should hurry, though.”

Right. The fact that so much had gone on, that there had been so much noise, and no one had heard and come investigating—was fortunate. My luck couldn’t hold forever though.

Mill was offering me an exit—

But then, just ten minutes ago he’d been running like Theo’s wingman.

“You don’t have much time to make a decision,” Mill said. “So you’d better come to it quick.”

I glanced back toward the balcony, out over the city sprawled out before me. It was so beautiful.

If Mill was lying, it was likely I was going to die this night, whether by my own hand or by someone else’s.

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