The Salvation: A Dark Vampire Fantasy Romance by Emily Shore

Author:Emily Shore [Shore, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

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"I'll take her lovely blood this time..."

MERIKH

I’m a fucking fool.

Goddamn me for playing into Reaver’s ruse and not leaving Mayce to defend Quintessa. Any time my wrath stokes my blood, I have no choice but to sink it, drown it. With the goddamned seal from Kronos carved into his flesh, it forbids me from using my powers upon him. But it doesn’t mean I can’t make him bleed.

My bloodthirst is sharp and sick.

Quintessa must never know of the other horror blackening my vision. How my doom will happen after she collects the objects. It would only lead her to fear and doubt, and I won’t allow her or Aislynn to become a sacrifice on my fucking altar.

The fear and the doubt already grow ice in my damned blood. Because once Malachor rises in my stead, he will not need any of them alive. I have no choice. Once she collects the objects, and Reaver frees Aislynn of the blood-tie, my brothers will take them. Before Malachor can rise, Drago, Mayce, and Kyan will take Quintessa and Aislynn and run.

They won’t stop running until they are beyond Malachor’s reach—even if they need to flee into the Underworld itself and seek favor from the Unseen.

Gods, I need a fix soon, or I’ll start tearing into throats. As it is, I can’t stop fixating on Reaver’s jugular and fantasizing about unleashing my slow-tortuous powers.

“When would I have to go?” Quintessa asks softly. I flick my eyes to the side, but her eyes are solely for Aislynn, and she’s swallowing hard. Fuck. My spine hardens. She purses her lips, already playing out failure in her mind and picturing the consequences.

Soon, I’ll banish any fears or doubts she may have. I’ll fucking obliterate whatever perilous thoughts I know she’s dwelling on. All three of us will.

Reaver regards her with a smile, one I wish to take a blade to and carve away those lips until just his bloody teeth remain.

“In three nights’ time, it will be half-Hollows night,” he tells her with a too-courteous nod. “Unlike full Hollow night when the Veil is thinnest between the Underworld, allowing the dead to rise and the monsters of the Waste to unleash, the Hollows will be thinner.”

“Three days...” she whispers weakly before her glassy eyes lift to mine. “I love you, Merikh.”

Fuck. I snap.

Pumping my wings, I charge for Reaver and slam him against the nearest wall. The shouting voices of my brothers blur. Blood and darkness scrawl my vision, and all I feel are those goddamned serpents biting me, releasing their burning poison into my blood.

I can’t use my power. But I will make him bleed.

As soon as he presses his lips into a mocking grin, I throw my fist at his jaw and knock him to the floor. Driven by my hatred and sadism and propelled by my wings, I beat my fists against his face. My claws become a thrashing scourge, lashing through his skin and stripping flesh down to the muscle until Mayce and Drago finally haul me off the bastard.

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