Thrall of the Vampire King (Blood Fire Saga Book 4) by Bella Klaus

Author:Bella Klaus [Klaus, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-08T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

I grabbed a glass and gulped mouthfuls of water, letting the cool liquid slide down my throat. Aurora couldn’t be injured—she was probably sitting cross-legged in a ritual room, meditating in another plane. Hades had to be saying that to get my attention.

The chatter around the table stopped, and everyone paused to stare at me. Even Gail, who had been pretending to have a conversation with Clarence and Leman, turned her head in my direction, risking eye contact with Racon.

Coral leaned across the table, her eyes wide. “Mera, are you alright?”

“Fine.” I held up a palm and rose off my seat. “It’s just a bit of food that went down the wrong passage.”

Coral frowned but didn’t speak. I snatched my gaze away from hers, hoping she didn’t link the demonic presence she’d sensed with my choking. While I trusted Coral to remain silent about any attempts to sabotage Kresnik, I wasn’t sure about the others’ states of mind.

Gail stared up at me with red-rimmed eyes. She was still distraught about discovering she was related to Racon, but instead of being furious with the people who had allowed their relationship to blossom, it looked like she’d turned her anger toward him.

“Come along,” Hades said, sounding like he’d waited an eternity for me to come to my senses and help him on his quest.

I picked up an uneaten dumpling and slipped the bar of supermarket-brand chocolate into my pocket, pulled back my chair, and muttered, “I’m running low on blood stabilizers.”

Coral rose. “Do you need me to come with you?”

“No,” Hades hissed.

I shook my head and smiled. “I’m going to walk for a bit and clear my head. See you guys later?”

Her gaze swept down my outfit as though it held a clue to my peculiar behavior. I offered the older woman a tight smile, hoping to convey that I would confide in her later… After I’d worked out a truce with Hades.

By now, a few more residents of the Flame sat around the tables, but the place wasn’t even close to being a quarter-full. More people crowded around the refectory’s serving hatch, but there were no signs of Roman, Martika, or the others who had tested positive for magic.

As I walked toward the exit, I passed a group of little children sitting with four women I recognized from around the Flame. Petra sat between a pair of twins with hair as red as hers, and my heart sank. Would Kresnik move on to them as an energy source now, or later?

“Where are we going?” I muttered under my breath.

“Infirmary,” he said back.

The hallways were deserted, and I jogged past the closed doors, feeling for the familiar thrum of Healer Calla’s magic. Hades had almost certainly lied about Aurora, but I was only going along for the opportunity to speak to him alone.

I needed to discover the location of Valentine’s heart, because his soul was the only one in this situation who might be able to explain how to navigate this situation without falling prey to the machinations of the Demon King.

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