Vampiress Unleashed (Unliving Queen Book 1) by Thomas Green

Author:Thomas Green [Green, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

I ALWAYS LIKED TO THINK ABOUT HER AS ABOUT TWO PEOPLE. The kind Mother who raised me, who taught me everything I knew, who spent almost every minute of my life with me. She got me almost everything I ever wanted, and never failed to be there for me.

And the evil side of her, I called the Monster. This part of her murdered whoever she pleased, kept me locked up in the golden cage of our home, and ruthlessly enforced her will through overwhelming power and factual immortality.

But looking at my mother, as she slowly turned while dropping Marius’s teeth from her palm, I had to face the reality of the Mother and the Monster being one person.

Marius hung in the chains of blood, panting, exhausted, while Crystal tried to struggle in her bindings.

My mother smiled pleasantly. “I seem to have finally managed to draw your attention, Darling.”

“Let them go,” I ordered not nearly as sharply as I had intended to.

“No.” She chuckled, flicked her wrist, a whip of blood burst from her hand, and hit Crystal’s back.

Crystal screamed out her lungs, shaking in the bindings.

I gritted my teeth, glowering. I didn’t free Crystal from the demons only to watch my mother torture her to death. But fighting was pointless. I just had to buy enough time for the Priest to arrive. Hopefully, he would distract my mother enough for me to free Marius and Crystal and to escape together. “Come on, Mom,” I said sweetly. “You know I will come back home.”

“Do I?” Mother asked back. “Because you do not look like you are planning to return home.”

“I only need to do something before I can do that,” I pleaded. “You can wait for a week.”

“Oh, my sweet child, you know I would let you do anything you desire. But not when you are being manipulated into it.”

“No one is manipulating me.”

She shook her head, sadness flashing over her face. “Your supposed friend is not who you think she is, and she is not your friend.”

I raised my chin. “You don’t get to decide who I have as my friends.”

“When a child goes astray, it is mother’s duty to correct her course,” Mother said and stretched out her arm toward me. But blood didn’t shoot from her palm as I had expected it to. Instead, Mother’s face formed a broad, satisfied smile and she lowered her hand.

I glanced over my shoulder, and saw the Priest leaning against the wall behind me. Except that he looked nothing like before. He wore a tailored suit, a shirt, a tie, leather shoes, and a long, winter coat, all jet black. He had a fresh haircut, and a clean-shave, perfectly handsome while looking like he has barely managed to escape his teenage years.

“You just don’t know how to die, do you, Lucas?” Mother asked playfully.

What was with that tone? Mother never spoke in such a lighthearted, playful tone.

“Not for the lack of effort on your side, Vivian,” Lucas replied and straightened. He motioned with his arms over the hundreds of corpses scattered through the dome.

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