Slayers Give Happy Endings by Holly Ryan

Author:Holly Ryan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vampires, vampire slayer, vampire reverse harem, vampire suspense, paranormal reverse harem
Publisher: Holly Ryan
Published: 2018-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Two days until my birthday. We had everything planned out, every detail, right down to the food and drinks I’d bring. No, I wasn’t talking birthday celebrations here, people. I would be carrying groceries to my battle with Paul. A ton of lime juice to kill the maggots—thanks, Google!—extra water to help grow the corpse flower seeds, and about twenty bags of the seeds themselves. With all my plant-growing needs accounted for, you’d think I’d feel ready, primed for action, queued up for a ton of god-killing.

But the truth was I hung on to sanity by my fingernails. The static sound drilled a constant hole in my head so loud that I sometimes literally couldn’t hear myself or my vamps speak. All I said anymore was “Huh?” and “Pass the blood.” My memory didn’t work for shit, and on the few occasions I allowed myself into the house, I was always finding myself in a room with no idea why I was there or how I’d gotten there in the first place. Mom had often joked about that kind of thing, especially since she’d had her fair share of brain farts. We all did. Wait until you get old like me, Mom had said. It turned out I didn’t have to.

According to the Senate’s book written about Roseff, he’d gone through much the same thing. He’d looked into the lake, learned the truth about Paul, and lost his damn mind on his birthday. After that, he’d resorted to torturing Jacek to figure out how to turn a slayer into a vampire and therefore survive Paul. On the days leading up to his birthday, he had huge gaps in his memory and tried to hurt himself. The book even detailed some notes he’d made.

The longer the slayer stays alive, the more magic the dark unknown is able to draw up from the ground, from his dimension, for it is a slow process. The dimension’s magic is almost as powerful as the slayer’s power itself.

And: The dark unknown’s phrase—that phrase—is, I think, what one Senate member said to him in order to distract him when the others stole his power.

I remembered that part in the lake, when Paul’s darkness had been spreading and the Senate had surrounded him. Everything I read in Roseff’s book sounded familiar, like I’d already read the huge tome from start to finish. Maybe I had. I couldn’t be sure of anything anymore.

I was a danger to myself, and my vamps, but I couldn’t not patrol. Soon, if this crazy plan of ours worked, if the corpse flowers took my power again and sealed up the lake portal, I may not have to patrol, but I didn’t know how I felt about that. Too many other variables weighed me down to think much on it, and I’d probably just forget anyway.

“All right, key,” I said to the piece of metal gripped in my fist.

Eddie had put it there for me, along with the word KEY inked to my hand.

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