Quinn's Lady by Amanda Ashley

Author:Amanda Ashley [Ashley, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Butterfly Kisses Press
Published: 2016-06-22T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Serepta woke with the setting of the sun. For a moment, she laid there, her senses reaching, probing the area surrounding her lair. But there was no one nearby. Rising, she left the cave and transported herself to her castle.

Her father’s scent, along with her mother’s and Quinn’s, now days old, lingered in the air. Foolish of them, to think they would find her here, helplessly trapped in the dark sleep.

In her room, she cast off her gown and stepped into the shower. She smiled faintly as she wondered how Quinn was enjoying prison. But he wouldn’t enjoy it long. She would go there tonight, drive a stake into his heart, and reclaim her magic. Without it, she felt as if she were missing a vital part of herself. The most important part. She hated being a vampire without it. True, she had a vampire’s preternatural powers, but she detested having to drink nothing but blood, living only by night. She could still compel mortals to do her bidding, but it wasn’t the same.

Stepping out of the shower, she changed into a pair of silky black pants and matching shirt, pulled on a pair of high-heeled black boots.

She grimaced as the hunger rose within her, undeniable, insatiable without her magic to control it.

Leaving the castle, she transported herself to Ironntown, where she fed on the first man she saw. She grinned inwardly. She could have made it pleasant for him, but why should she? It wasn’t pleasant for her, feeding like some feral beast. And yet, the blood satisfied her hunger, while killing him satisfied another darker need.

She wiped her mouth with his shirttail, then tossed the body into a ravine. His death meant less nothing to her. She was a vampire, he was prey.

A thought took her to the Bosquetown prison. Outside the gate, she dissolved into mist, then floated over the wall, drifting above the heads of the guards who patrolled the perimeter. She entered through an open window and made her way down to the cells below.

She materialized in the shadows, then followed Quinn’s scent to a cell near the end of the corridor, only to find it empty.

Fury rose within her, as hot as the lava that sometimes spewed from the volcano east of the snow-capped mountains of Brynn Tor.

Hands clenched at her sides, she took a deep, calming breath. He might not be here, but he couldn’t hide from her forever.

Sensing a man coming up behind her, she spun around.

“Here, now!” the guard exclaimed. “How did you get in here?”

“Like this.” Calling upon her preternatural power, she dissolved into mist.

“What the Hel!” Eyes wide with disbelief he stumbled backward.

Serepta quickly resumed her own form. Laughing softly, she trapped him in her embrace and buried her fangs in his throat. He was dead before he hit the ground. Wiping his blood from her lips, she strolled out of the prison.

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