Witches Be Burned: A Magic & Mayhem Novel by Stacey Kennedy

Author:Stacey Kennedy [Kennedy, Stacey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2015-05-19T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Three quarters of an hour later, Nexi stood on the grounds of a mansion that made Thalia’s look small in comparison. She inhaled the dry, warm air, with a hint of the garden fertilizer, no doubt. Spotlights beamed, illuminating the mansion’s dark gray brick grandness with the starry sky behind.

As Kyden began striding with his mouthwatering, powerful gait up the cobblestone driveway, passing by a huge fountain, Nexi turned to Zia. “Do you plan on telling me why you were so insistent on joining us to meet Ellery? What don’t I know?” The instant Kyden updated the Council on the discoveries at Thalia’s, Zia was on her way through the portal.

Zia sighed. It sounded somewhat disgruntled as she started walking up the driveway. “To put it simply, Mistress Ellery…she can be…”

A bitch? Nexi offered in her mind, keeping the conversation private, since vampires would be close by. While older vampires held the ability to talk telepathically, they could not hear a conversation that wasn’t meant for them to hear.

Zia’s smile was tight as she tucked her hair behind her ear. That’s an accurate description of her. Ellery may be more willing to discuss this matter if there is the Council’s presence. She hesitated, and as they reached Kyden at the front door she added, Mistress Ellery believes in the old world, even if she follows the rules of the treaty. She prefers not to interact with the Otherworld.

But isn’t that just part of the deal?

Sadly, no. Ellery won’t stop us from killing one of her vampires, but she also provides no help, either. The Otherworld only deals with vampires who take a mortal’s life. Ellery treats her humans that feed her and her guard with impeccable gratitude.

Oh, really? It was hard to believe being a blood bank would be something to be grateful for. Do tell?

She takes homeless people off the street and she pays them for their service to her.

Nexi scrunched her nose. But I thought mortals aren’t supposed to know about supernaturals?

When they live at her house she glamours their mind so they can’t leave. When they do leave, she deposits large amounts of money into their bank accounts and wipes their mind of their time with her. Seeing that she’s, in fact, helping mortals who likely would have lived a hard life, there isn’t much we can do.

Ah, so she’s found a loophole to live as she once did and feed off the living instead of bagged blood.

Zia nodded. Precisely.

Nexi considered that, unable to stop herself from wondering, Is it a coincidence that all Mistress Vampires are female?

No. Zia stopped on the front steps of the house and folded her arms. Back in the seventeen hundreds when the treaty came into force, all of the old and powerful male vampires, except for Zade and the other past Master of Vampires were killed. The reason Zade and the other vampire survived was because they belonged to the Otherworld.

The female vampires killed them, I take it?

Correct. They banded

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