Between Bloode and Water: Between the Shadows by Harte Marie

Author:Harte, Marie
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642920680
Publisher: No Box Books
Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

“I’ve been taking care of your kid’s meal,” Kraft was telling him, and it took Orion a moment to realize the vampire was referring to his kitten. “Smoky’s been crying a lot, and he started sucking up to me. I think he misses you, and since I’m the only one close to your size, he’s tolerating me. Even sleeps on my bed.”

Orion grunted. He sat in the back, letting Kraft take the front passenger seat while Duncan drove with a smooth confidence. Then again, the revenant did everything smoothly, Mr. Sophisticated with fangs.

Kraft continued, “Varu and Fara have been working hard with the third stone. It’s different than the first one. The second one has been pretty quiet. But this third one talks to Varu all the same.”

He had nothing to say to that and out of the corner of his eye watched Duncan and Kraft exchange a look.

Duncan said, “Every now and then, it talks to me too. It’s weird. It actually has a decent accent.”

“He means it sounds like a Londoner.” Kraft snorted. “Not like a red-blooded Bavarian.” He mouthed off in German.

The two vampires exchanged quips before devolving into a discussion about pantheons and who had more strength during battle.

They drove in the SUV he’d stolen while Kaia rode with Macy in one of the Night Bloode’s vehicles. He didn’t like the separation from the sad sea nymph. Though pleased to be free of witchy influence, no longer bewitched, now he felt empty, as if a part of himself had gone missing.

Perhaps Macy had screwed up and taken a piece of his non-existent soul, giving it to Kaia. Wouldn’t that suck goblin balls.

“Why so quiet, Orion?” Kraft asked.

“Leave him be, Kraft. He’s been under the spell of a witch for days. Trust me, I know how that feels. It’s not pleasant, even if you do end up mating her.” Duncan chuckled. “Though I have to admit it was fun making Macy pay.”

Kraft asked him about bloode magic—in particular, what it felt like to be Macy’s bitch since Duncan had to provide her bloode.

“I’ll give you a bitch, you bloody wanker,” Duncan shot back.

“I do like to be bloody, lightweight.”

Orion didn’t listen, focused on his own befuddled discomfort.

Of course he had every right to be angry. Yet when he directed that anger at the dark-haired nymph, he felt echoes of hurt and bewilderment, disappointment with himself.

Why should he be disappointed with himself? Because he’d been bespelled? Vampires could withstand a hell of a lot from their kind and most magir. But demons were a whole other level of fuckery. Of course he hadn’t been able to protect himself against demon magic.

Kaia might not have put the spell on him to steal his will, but she’d been there to take advantage of it. Hadn’t she?

The past six nights with her seemed a dream, snippets coming to him of her smile, of him doing all manner of things from making her food to protecting her while she slept, and even once or twice of swimming with her.

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