Day Dreamer (Undeadly Secrets Book 2) by Aaron L Speer

Author:Aaron L Speer [Speer, Aaron L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Create Space
Published: 2016-05-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

Help Me

“I demand carnage!” Julian screamed, indicating the broken cell door. “It is impossible for anyone to break out of here from the inside. She had help. I know it!”

Vincent was bored with his son already. He had been for several hundred years, at least. He might have done away with him already, but from time to time, he could prove…useful. “Oh, for fuck’s sake. Calm yourself. You sound like the toddler I ate last night…screaming for her mother.” He examined the lock and handle. “Did you not follow her advice on how to make these things?”

“Yes. What of it?”

“So did you consider she may have always known of a weakness in the manufacturing? Nothing is foolproof. Especially around you, my dear boy.”

Julian’s eyes widened, suddenly changing his argument. “I was played. She never loved me. I want her head!”

“No,” Vincent growled.

Julian took a breath at this signal and quietened. “She really was waking up in the day, then, wasn’t she?”

“Indeed, and getting far too close to our guests upstairs. I should’ve known her power would draw her to them and vice versa. If she uncovered what we are doing…” Vincent shook his head.

“What harm could she have possibly done?”

“It is imperative that only you, I and Hershel know we are using werewolf blood to make Dream State. The consequences would be diabolical.”

These were not just empty words. On the contrary, Vincent truly felt them. His stance on werewolves had prompted an enormous amount of resentment in the greater vampire population. The rest of the world had to put up with them, so why not Australia? Though surprisingly, his actions had gained him an equal measure of respect from the one place he needed it: The Messengers of Osiris, the overseers of the vampire world. They preferred to remain unseen, communicating only through letters sent by falcons that they had imbued with special strength and endurance. Although Vincent had indeed received notification of their approval—or perhaps it was merely tolerance; that was enough for Vincent—via such a falcon, the fact was, he had always doubted the supposed, almost omnipotent aura they commanded. Vincent had long had the view that a vampire’s only power was that which was given to them, and further, one could not challenge thin air. But then perhaps it was indeed this distinct absence that made The Messengers of Osiris nigh on invulnerable.

Vincent’s position as king was untouchable due to the fact he had been a formidable ally in the war against the wolves. His strength had saved many of his kind back in Innisfree in the late 1600s. Once king of Sydney, he made his choice and stuck to his word against werewolves. Other vampire leaders felt as he did, but due to the hangover from centuries of war all over Europe and the Americas, they relented somewhat and conceded to an uneasy peace in the early 1800s. Vincent, however, had declared that Australia was a free country for vampires only. He would recognise the peace with the werewolves only if they remained out of the country.

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