Dark Heiress: A Vampire Urban Fantasy (An Ema Marx Novel Book 5) by J.D. Brown

Author:J.D. Brown [Brown, J.D.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: vampire series for adults, urban fantasy for adults, vampire, dark fantasy, urban fantasy
Publisher: J.D. Brown
Published: 2019-10-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

The splintering of wood echoed across the forest as oaks, elms, and hornbeams rose twenty feet high. Their branches reached out to receive Jesu like a magical drawbridge bending to his will. I flew beside him, holding Mom’s invisible essence in one hand, and Jesu’s tightly threaded fingers in the other. He stepped from branch to branch without taking his eyes off me, completely confident that the trees would not allow him to fall. If any of the sparrows or chipmunks scurrying from his path were Alpans in disguise, they did not stop us. More likely, all the loyal soldiers were inside the castle fighting off Rebels.

We crossed the forest canopy with ease and in a matter of minutes we reached the main road that stretched along the sleepy German countryside. The sounds of battle faded behind us, but the screams could still be heard if I listened for them.

Brinnon. Sara. Cecelia. Lupa. Rudo. Snow and Rick. All the maids and butlers and grounds folk. They were still back there, fighting for their lives or perhaps already dead.

Jesu clung to the trunk of the final tree, an aged maple. I lowered with him as the tree shrank down to the size of a footstool, and Jesu stepped off. Dad emerged from behind a thick shrub, sporting a single-handed sword.

“How many of those do you have?” I asked while pulling Mom’s molecules back together. I rested her unconscious body against the summer-sweetened grass and checked to make sure she was still breathing. She was.

“Grabbed this one off a body,” said Dad, his brow furrowed in concern as he watched Mom. “What happened?”

“She fainted. I think being attacked by shape-shifting vampires and traveling while phased was too much for her.”

Dad crouched and lifted Mom’s upper body to lean against him. He patted her cheeks. “Come on, Helena. Wake up, my beauty.”

Leaving Mom in Dad’s capable hands, I sidestepped over to Jesu. He stared in the direction of the castle, and I knew he listened to the battle we’d just left. I flattened one hand against his upper arm to get his attention and then peered into those grim green eyes that had depicted a hurricane on the warpath a moment ago, but were now just the windows to a troubled man. My heart broke knowing what I was about to do next.

“Go,” I said. “Help as many as you can. But come back to me, Jesu.”

He touched the side of my neck and cupped my jaw before kissing me. Overhead, a dark shadow blotted out the moonlight and thunder cracked. The unexpected sound shook me, and I gasped up at him. A storm raged in his dark gaze, and the flash of lightning reflected in the green embers of his irises. “Stay safe.”

My love shot into the sky, propelled by the very ground he stood on. Clumps of dirt rained down two seconds before the clouds ripped open and the real storm drenched my clothes and hair in seconds. I didn’t turn away from the pebbles or the rain.

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