Blood Captive (The Blackthorne Vampires Book 1) by Kim Loraine

Author:Kim Loraine [Loraine, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kim Loraine LLC
Published: 2019-06-16T18:30:00+00:00

Cashel

My wrists burned from the silver shackles around them, ankles too. I’d gone to great pains to hide what happened between Olivia and me, but clearly, my father was smarter than I gave him credit for. Days and nights had passed since I brought her back to Blackthorne Manor, and I had been chained in here since before the end of that night.

Lucas had found me, secured the cuffs around my wrists with gloved hands, and muttered, “I don’t know what you did, brother, but Father is very angry.”

I haven’t seen my father since he chained me. All I could do was hope he hadn’t realized she escaped, and I brought her back. It’s likely he smelled her blood on me. That would have been nearly impossible to hide. But I’d thought I could have passed it off as residue from him offering me a drop from her first donation.

I pulled against the chains, my flesh sizzling and burning, but it was no use. I wouldn’t get out of here until my father decided to release me himself. I lay there, staring at the ceiling, listening. I could hear her heartbeat, strong, fast, and terrified. But she wasn’t in her room, she was too far to the east. Unease curled in my gut, sending apprehension racing through my system. This wasn’t somewhere she should be. No one was allowed in the east wing. Not me, not my siblings, not Brenna. If my little bird was in the east wing, there was only one reason. My father had taken her.

The rapid pace of her heartbeat grew slower as I listened and I hoped it was a sign that she was calming, that there was nothing for her to fear, but slow turned to dangerously infrequent, and my instincts screamed that she was dying. I writhed on the bed pulling until blood dripped onto the sheets from my wounds, but I didn’t care. I had to get to her. Everything in me insisted on that.

“Brenna! Lucas! Sorcha! Callie!” I screamed their names not caring if my father heard. I screamed for them over and over, but no one came.

I couldn’t hear her pulse anymore, that siren song she couldn’t tame and my need for her turned frantic. It was my fault we were losing her. I’d done this by not being there to protect her from us.

The jangling of keys clicking together outside my door had hope building in my chest. Brenna’s stricken face was the first thing I saw as the door opened.

“Where is she?” The words left my mouth before I could even register I’d said them.

“Your father took her, he wanted a private audience.” The sorrow in her tone told me everything I needed to know. Brenna had delivered her.

“She wasn’t to be alone with anyone but me and you.”

“I’m sorry. I couldn’t deny the King. I can’t go back to the dungeon again.”

Guilt washed over me. Brenna had done more than her fair share for me over the years.

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