Soul of the Shayde: A Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance (The Vampires' Blood Mate Book 3) by Lili Zander

Author:Lili Zander [Zander, Lili]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-29T16:00:00+00:00

After an hour of walking, I'm getting cranky. A few times, I’ve seen groups of people in the distance, but as I near them, they melt away into the shadows. “Why won't anyone talk to us?”

“People saw you with Captain Calorio,” Shadow replies. “Words get around in the Deeps. Nobody will talk to you.”

I heave a sigh of exasperation. She could have said that to me an hour ago. “What do you suggest I do?”

She gives me an indecipherable look. “You could go back upstairs where you belong,” she suggests. “You tried your best.”

She thinks I belong upstairs? I fix her with an icy look. “I haven't done my best. I’m not going to turn back. So, you can either help me do something useful, or we can wander around for hours, getting nowhere.”

“Captain Calorio will not approve of what I’m going to suggest,” she says reluctantly. “But you won’t find a prison in the four-hundreds. If you want to get anywhere, you’ll need to head much lower.”

Zeke’s warning about the Lower Deeps ring in my ears. It’s almost a separate world down there.

“Is it dangerous?” Am I walking into an ambush? I want to make a difference, but I’ll achieve nothing by heedlessly throw myself into danger.

“For a vampire, yes. For a human, less so. The worst that can happen is that someone takes a fancy to you and doesn't like hearing the word no.” Her teeth bare into a feral smile. “I can handle that.”

I have no doubt of her skill. I reach a decision. “Okay. That's where we'll go.”

We cross to the nearest chute. I look at the buttons and see that the lettering on Level 63 is almost worn out. A lot of people go there then. That’s a promising sign. Swallowing my nerves, I hit it. “How do you know so much about the Lower Deeps?” I ask her as we start to move.

“I was born there,” she replies. “Spent my childhood on Level 35 in Nightshade Tower. I go back from time to time.”

“So, you're an expert.”

“There's no such thing. I know my way around Nightshade, but every tower is different.”

She's about my age. I'm curious about her. “You’re a part of Ragnar’s team, aren’t you? How does one go from the Lower Deeps to becoming one of the Prince’s guards?”

Her teeth flash in a grin. “The prince came to the Lower Deeps to fight as a boy. I beat him twice. The third time, he bested me. My master had a large wager riding on me, and I'd let him down. He was ready to kill me. Prince Ragnar got me out.”

Oh wow. “How long ago was this?”

Her forehead wrinkles. “Twenty years, give or take. The Prince was fourteen. I was seven.”

“They let a seven-year-old human girl go up against a fourteen-year-old vampire?”

She chuckles softly. “It wasn't much of a fight. In the early days, Prince Ragnar was untrained. Soft. He foiled his first assassination attempt more by luck than skill.” Her voice turns admiring.

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