Joey W. Hill - Vampire Queen 5 - Vampire Mistress by Joey W. Hill

Author:Joey W. Hill [Hill, Joey W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0100-12-31T14:00:00+00:00

you wish, you may go now,” Daegan continued, turning away. “In fact, I think that’s best, so her dependence upon you

doesn’t increase. I’ll administer the sire’s blood and care for her from here forward. We can achieve the balance she needs

without your presence.”

“If anyone’s going to dismiss me like I’m some kind of bellboy, it’s not going to be you. She can—”

Daegan spun back around. What Gideon had taken for an indifferent tone was revealed as something else altogether as he

saw the tips of fangs and that deadly trace of crimson in the vampire’s eyes.

“I will not allow you to work out your personal shit at her expense. She gave you a taste of something you were seeking, but, as you pointed out, she is a vampire now. You loathe everything she will have to become to survive. If you cannot set that

aside, you are just prolonging a bond that will hurt her far worse when you hack it free with that dull-blade mentality of yours.”

“It’s not all or nothing. I don’t have to become her servant to prove anything to her. And I sure as hell don’t need to prove anything to you.”

“No, you don’t. But you have something to prove to yourself. That is what I will not tolerate, not here. I will not allow you to make this—make her—that battleground. Go back to your life, such that it is.”

“Fuck you.” Gideon spun on his heel, strode into the reading room. His intent was just to move away from the conversation

before it got really nasty, but his gaze fell on his weapons. Daegan had left them in a chair hours ago, out of his reach as

requested. Out of habit, a calming ritual, he began to strap them on, slide them into their proper places.

As he did, he imagined the day hewould walk out of here and not look back. Headed to the next job, as Daegan had said.

There was a vampire in Georgia, one that took his annual quota of twelve human lives, plus a few more. It would probably take a month to set it up, do the legwork, get the jump on him. If Lyssa and Jacob were back in Atlanta then, maybe he could visit them. And his new nephew, the one with tiny fangs and Jacob’s laughing eyes.

He kept his gaze fixed on the easy chair as he put the weapons on. The more he thought about leaving, the worse the

burning sensation in his chest got. The greater the desire grew to go back down the hall, steal a look at the woman curled on the couch in her cell, surrounded by a coil of chains. To see if she was waking. If she needed him.

Fate lets you run from nothing. Run as fast as you wish, and she’ll throw a brick wall right in front of you, smash that pretty face. Lyssa had said that to him, on a recent phone call where he’d evaded an invitation to come spend Christmas with them.

If

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