Balancing the Scales (The Twenty-Sided Sorceress Book 10) by Annie Bellet

Balancing the Scales (The Twenty-Sided Sorceress Book 10) by Annie Bellet

Author:Annie Bellet [Bellet, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Doomed Muse Press
Published: 2020-03-08T16:00:00+00:00


Lilith sat on the edge of the platform, looking like an actress or a model arrayed for a photoshoot more than a vampire awakened after nearly a century of magic sleep. She was wearing a dark purple dressing gown straight out of a Jane Austen movie, and little else from what I could see. Her skin was a very light golden-hued brown, which shouldn’t have surprised me, but I still thought of vampires as super-pale creatures of darkness, I guess. Her hair fell in rich brown waves over her shoulders and drifted across her nearly revealed full breasts, but it was her glinting golden eyes and the deceptively mild smile on her wide red lips that drew my attention. Her tone had been questioning, and her eyebrows were raised as though she expected some kind of answer.

“No,” I said, gathering my wits. “I’m here about one of your children though. In a way.”

Lilith rose and tried to step off the dais. She hissed and pulled back as the inner circle flared with power, but thankfully held.

“This is unnecessary,” she said. She had none of the stillness I’d come to associate with vampires. Whatever she was, I had a feeling she was either way better at pretending to be alive than her children, or perhaps she was not undead at all.

“Better safe than sorry. Someone once told me never to trust a vampire, and I’ve learned the hard way to listen to that advice,” I said. So many questions raced through my head. The first was why had her children locked her away down here? She’d been here since the eighteen hundreds, if the necromancer’s information was correct.

“It’s almost eleven,” Ezee said very quietly in an apologetic tone behind me. I had told him to warn me when it got to the eleventh hour, literally and figuratively.

“Now there is one I could work with,” Lilith said, smiling at Ezee. “Come here, gorgeous.”

“He’s taken,” Levi said.

“We’re all taken,” Harper said.

“Have you ever truly been taken, fox? I think not from your reaction to me.”

“Okay, hey, nobody is doing any taking,” I said before I had to stop Harper from running the Mother of All Vampires through with a magic sword.

“Then why wake me up?” Lilith’s attention snapped back to me, and I almost took a step back from the power of her gaze. Her question and Ezee’s warning snapped me out of my thoughts. We were here for one reason, and curiosity about anything else just might kill the only cat that truly mattered to me.

“It’s a long story, but the short version is that Noah Grey,” —I saw from the lift of her chin that she knew that name— “is holding my mate hostage until I give him something he wants. Which I don’t have to give him. So instead you and I are going to make a deal. Your freedom for my mate’s freedom.”

Lilith studied me a long moment and then her smile returned, but this time it touched her eyes.



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