Because Your Vampire Said So by Michele Bardsley

Author:Michele Bardsley [Michele Bardsley]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Paranormal, General
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-05-06T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

I pulled out of Gabriel’s grip, then walked to a nearby couch and dropped into it. "I feel like I’ve been cast in an episode of Supernatural.”

"We have a lot to explain,” said Arin. He had abandoned his search for whatever demon-related information he’d wanted.

“Why don’t you start with the prophecy and go from there?” I asked.

I wasn’t sure how to feel. I was really good at shoving down my emotions, but the information being lobbed at me was hard to bury. I needed to sort it all out before I did anything. Like freak the fuck out.

“If Hua Mu Lan has her way, everything in Broken Heart will be toast,” said Terran. “Father, I think we should help the Consortium. If Koschei wins, he will”—her gaze slid to me— “make sure the prophecy never comes true.”

“If it’s a prophecy, doesn’t that sorta mean there’s no getting around it?” I asked.

“Free will often interferes with the forecasts of seers,” said Arin, smiling. “But this prediction seems on course. However, we would be wise not to underestimate Koschei’s powers.”

“Or Lia’s.” I wondered what else in Broken Heart had gotten fried thanks to Miss Magnolia Blossom.

Terran planted her butt on the couch next to me. “Koschei can be a very convincing man. Chances are good he’s recruited a number of powerful vampires to his side.”

Most vampires could bend the wills of humans, but it wasn’t the same as having the mind power to control others. Vampires from the Family Koschei could make you think you were in Hawaii when you were really sitting on a glacier.

Arin pulled out a single sheet of paper from a messy stack. He returned to us and sat on the edge of the fountain.

" ’A vampire queen shall come forth from the place of broken hearts. The seven powers of the Ancients will be hers to command,’ ” read Arin. " ’She shall bind with the outcast, and with this union, she will save the dual-natured. With her consort, she will rule vampires and lycanthropes as one.’ ”

“None of that says a damned thing about me.”

“Astria Vedere’s prediction is one in a long line of predictions about the vampires and lycans, ” said Terran. “They even predicted that you and your friends would be turned into vampires. ‘Eleven will Turn; one will burn.’ ”

Okay, that was scary. Eleven of us single parents had been Turned. I thought about poor Charlene, who’d been Turned with the rest of us. She was the mistress of Jessica’s late husband and the mother of Rich, Jr. Rich, Sr., had died because Charlene messed with his car, which led to his fatal accident. She’d burned, all right. She sat on Rich’s grave until the sun came up and fried her.

Hysteria welled, but I managed to hang on to my wits. Just because I’d touched two Ancients and might’ve gotten their powers was no reason to panic. “Unless the oracle gave y’all my name and address, you don’t know if I’m the one.

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