Turned by Blood by Holly Hook

Author:Holly Hook [Hook, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Holly Hook
Published: 2018-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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“Would you like to know the part you've played?”

I stood in the cave, arms bound by a pair of imps in combat fatigues. The demon mayor, Thoreau, paced before me in human form. He wore his sunglasses to hide his black eyes as he always did. Those eyes were always full of dancing flames as if the Infernal Dimension itself were burning inside of him.

I pulled against the imps. The cave was full of them, and they also held Liliana's arms. Another pair of them wrapped silver chains around George, who struggled and growled. The full moon was tonight, and he was due to shift.

No imps needed to hold onto Xavier. A pair of thick manacles held him against the wall. The ashes of the War God sat on the floor. They were all that remained when the War God broke his demonic contract by helping us only minutes ago. Since getting chained to the wall, Xavier's eyes had turned violet, just like the War God's had been. He was in the position to help fuel the rite.

The mayor was due to merge the worlds tonight. He needed five dark beings in position, and Xavier had just taken the place of the fifth.

And he needed Alyssa.

He had taken her away already and then returned. I did not understand where she was, but Bathory was guarding her until midnight.

“What part?” I asked. The fever I'd suffered for the past few days was fading, and as I spoke, my teeth felt strange.

The fangs were coming in.

It was the last step. I'd Turn completely by nightfall.

“It was part of my plan,” Thoreau said. “I needed to break her, and you helped me with that.” He smiled as he paced in the other direction. I could smell all the gross demon blood in the room. It was like standing in a room full of industrial waste. “I knew Turning her best friend by mistake would probably happen, and lo-and-behold. She didn't want to bite her idiot boyfriend.”

Xavier pulled against his chains. They held tight. He leveled his violet glare at the mayor. The air in the room remained hot. This place was full of War Magic. It had imprisoned the War God for who knew how long.

No one needed to say why. Alyssa had avoided biting Xavier as long as possible because she would become the Dark Pentagram, the being the mayor would use to merge the worlds. One by one, Alyssa had gotten forced to wake up new, more terrifying parts of herself. Getting full access to Xavier's magic had completed the fourth step.

And the fifth—

“Alyssa had to feel bad about herself in order to—”

“It was a good plan, wasn't it?” The mayor smiled.

I thought of the awful changes she'd gone through. Were they possible to reverse?

“So you knew I could Turn?” I asked. I thought of my father, the only parent who could have passed on Bathory's blood. “You invaded my privacy? Did you have a test done

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