From the Darkness (Blackwood Vampires Book 1) by E.J. King

Author:E.J. King [King, E.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-07-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

WILLIAM

When Grace stepped through the door, I felt her before I saw her. Her presence was like electricity filling the air. The blood in my veins began to crackle.

“Did you have a nice walk?” I asked, hating how stiff my voice sounded when I spoke to her. It didn’t soften the same way that my heart did when she was around.

“I ran into your brother,” she said with a frown.

I immediately worried about what Drake might have said. “Drake wasn’t inappropriate, was he?”

“Alex, not Drake,” she clarified. It didn’t necessarily make me feel any better. “And he wasn’t inappropriate, not exactly. He did make some assumptions about us though.”

“I am sure he did.” I was sure that everyone in the Darkness had made those same assumptions. In fact, it was essential that they believe that our relationship was of a typical companion variety. “Are you ready to have a conversation about what happened at the Capitol?”

Grace shrugged and came further into the room. “Sure. Let’s have a conversation.”

“Shall we start with the Guardianship, or the witch?” I asked.

“Actually, I was thinking we could start with me telling you to never speak to me like that again,” she snapped. We were standing close enough to each other that I could see a fire sparking in her eyes.

“I only did that to protect you.” My words had become even more clipped.

She took another step forward until she was close enough to touch. I wanted to reach out and stroke her soft cheek, but instead I clenched my hand into a fist at my side. “I don’t need you to protect me, William.”

It was an argument I was never going to win, even if I told her the full truth. Grace wasn’t safe in the Darkness. She wasn’t safe anywhere. The monsters of the world were hunting for this woman, and I was the only one that could protect her- if she didn’t destroy me first.

“Fine. I will refrain from giving you orders.” If that was all I had to do to keep Grace by my side, I would gladly do it.

“Good.” Her head moved in a perfunctory nod. “Now let’s move onto other matters.”

I convinced her to take a seat as it wasn’t going to be a quick conversation. She perched on the edge of the couch across from me, refusing to make herself comfortable.

“A few weeks ago, we heard that a powerful Soul, Benton Hart, was building an army of Dark Souls. We’ve been spending the last month hunting him and Alexander went on this last mission with the primary goal of killing Benton. A secondary goal was to learn more about a powerful witch that has been using Dark Magic.” I did my best to summarize the mission as quickly as possible.

“So Benton is dead and the witch took off?” Grace said, summarizing my words further. “I don’t understand why you are all so worried about this one witch. She must be pretty special.”

She was clearly digging for more information, but I wasn’t ready to go there yet.

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