Vampire Dating Agency II by Rosette Bolter

Author:Rosette Bolter [Bolter, Rosette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-06-22T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

Kendra Armistice had reached her mind’s end. Her shoes were taken off, and soft socks drifted across the cold and bitter concrete ground. Arianne’s body was lying in the centre of a circle of candles with purple flames. The Count stood outside of it in the shadows of the room.

Kendra stepped over the candles.

“Take all the time you need,” the Count said quietly.

Kendra looked over the body.

Arianne’s eyes were open. Dead. Empty. Lifeless.

Regardless of her transformation, she should still have appeared to be a young woman, but her hair was unnaturally white. Her bones were visible around her shoulders. Her jawline.

Even her eye-sockets.

A diet of blood had thinned her out.

“So much for eternity then,” Kendra remarked.

“She deserved longer,” the Count replied.

Kendra looked up towards him. “I suppose you blame me.”

“I do.”

“Then it is reciprocated.”

“What?”

“This happened under your watch, not mine.”

“My watch…?”

“She chose to follow you, did she not?”

The Count paused. “If Arianne was here I’m sure she’d relay the events differently.”

“How so?”

“I believe the story revolves around her mother. The mother who walked out on her.”

“She could have found a place in my family. Either she, or Annabel. Something could have been worked out. But she chose you. They both did.”

The Count stepped forward. He stood just outside the circle.

“When you look at me,” the Count asked, “who do you see?”

Kendra’s eyes closed a little. His presence merged with the purple light.

“I don’t see anything,” Kendra whispered.

“What happened, that you would hate me so much?”

“I don’t hate you. I don’t ‘anything’ you. You’re not even on my radar.”

“You lie.”

His hand reached for hers over the flames.

“Can’t you feel me? Can’t you recognize I’m here with you?”

“What do you propose?”

Their fingers interlocked.

“Maybe we could get through this,” the Count said. “The truce between us. Maybe we could set our differences aside and work together.”

“As a team?”

“As a family.”

Kendra’s fingers slipped away. She crouched on the floor beside Arianne.

“I have a family,” Kendra said.

“But you don’t love them, do you?”

Kendra stared into the eyes of her dead child. “No. I don’t.”

“Your place is beside me, Kendra,” the Count said. “I have sent for Annabel. She will join us soon. It will be like it was before. Better even. You know in your heart this is your destiny.”

Kendra put her soft hand to Arianne’s cold forehead.

Images flashed in her mind.

She was falling.

Falling away…

The Count stepped over the candles.

“I need you, Kendra. If I am to continue here. If I am to get through this. You’ll make me sane again. You’ll take the venom underneath my lips, and neutralize all.”

Kendra’s hand moved down from the forehead.

“Who do you think the killer is?”

“Killer? Which one?”

“The one who threw that girl over the balcony tonight. Who murdered fifteen others. Who somehow found their way to Haley Watkins’s house, and slaughtered her mother and brother?”

“I don’t know,” the Count said. “Why are you asking me?”

Kendra ripped the stake out from Arianne’s heart. “Because I think it was you.”

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