Blood Wars (The Bloodborn Series Book 2) by Iris Walker

Author:Iris Walker [Walker, Iris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10 Loyalties

Lucidia

It took her a while to make it back through Cain-infested waters, only sticking to main highways and zooming over a hundred on the stolen motorcycle.

Why, exactly, after declaring independence, was she zipping back to Darian like a well-trained puppy?

Good question.

Loyalty, she supposed. Not to him, though, to the hundreds of thousands of refugees from their house. Darian was a snake, but he had an impeccable talent when it came to wading through treacherous situations, and a proclivity for making order out of chaos. Despite her past treason and her animosity born from what he’d done to Kenzo, in the current situation, he was certainly the lesser of two evils, although the actual count seemed to be looking more like four, or even five evils. And if Lucidia was being entirely honest, this whole thing was above her paygrade.

That was one of the (rare) positives in their world; although there was a great deal of slavery, when crap hit the turbine, it was the responsibility of the eldest creatures to take care of it, not the little guys. Which meant Darian had some catching up to do.

But for all his infinite wisdom, after hearing what Reykon had to say, she knew that Darian didn’t have the full story.

It was very, very difficult to pull one over on the ancient vampire, which meant whoever orchestrated this whole conspiracy went to a great deal to make it happen, and to do it well.

It was 7:30 p.m. when she pulled into the address that he’d sent to her phone. A Chinese restaurant? she thought, scowling at the sleepy hole in the wall. The sign was white with red lettering from the nineties (at least) and a crack in the display gave it a triangle of creepy darkness, like cracked porcelain.

She walked in, glancing upward as the bell rang out in a tinny ding. The box of a restaurant smelled like bok choy and teriyaki, mixed with vinyl banquet seats and Formica tables. She peered through the dim light, glancing around, not that she could picture the vampire master Darian Xander sitting in a low-ceilinged, mom-and-pop restaurant on the outskirts of Medford, Oregon.

An older Asian woman, even shorter than Lucidia, came up to her with a wide smile, and held her hand out to a door on the back wall, covered with hanging beads. Lucidia tried her best to return the smile and stalked through the tables, shooting the wooden beads an irritated glance as she parted them.

The back room was small, with a single table in the middle and pictures of families from Asia hanging around with no particular organization. A fountain sat in the corner, and three tall bamboo trees reached all the way up, their leaves fanning out across water-stained ceiling tiles.

At the head of the table?

Someone she barely even recognized.

Darian Xander sat, wearing a simple, cream button up shirt and dark jeans.

Jeans? she balked. How does he even know what those are?

As shocking as that bit was, she just about did a double take at his face.

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