Marrying Dracula by Kinsley Adams

Author:Kinsley Adams [Adams, Kinsley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781989308189
Publisher: Library and Archives Canada

Chapter

Fourteen

My mother had always told me the secret to a successful marriage was never going to bed angry. Then she’d laugh and say maybe that was why my father had a mistress. I didn’t want that sort of relationship for me and Vlad. Which was why it broke my heart when he didn’t return that night. It was five minutes to sunrise, and all us vamps were accounted for, standing next to our coffins. Except him.

Camilla shot me a wary glance, her face twisted with sympathy. Thank goodness she didn’t say anything. I couldn’t face the comments right now. I just wanted Vlad to walk through that door so I could kiss him good morning before we all tucked ourselves into our coffins.

The minutes ticked down and he didn’t show. A kernel of fear bloomed in my chest. What if something had happened to him? What if the queen’s men found him? What if the queen had him again? She would kill him just to spite me. And with the sun this close to rising, I certainly couldn’t go look for him! We were in a foreign country. Every friend or ally we possessed was currently in this cellar with me. Where the hell was Vlad?

I must have made a panicked noise because Camilla reached out and grasped my hand before giving it a squeeze. “I’m sure he’s fine.”

Anger flared like the sun within me. I didn’t want to hear any silly platitudes or stupid promises.

“Anna.” Camilla pushed me into my coffin. “You two will wake tonight and sort all your problems out.”

Except, I would wake before him. Meaning, I’d have to wait hours to see if he returned home tonight. If he wasn’t dead, I sure as hell was going to kill him. If this was some lesson he meant to teach me, now wasn’t the time. This was completely inappropriate.

I ground my teeth and laid back in my coffin, thinking of all the ways I’d kill him tonight. The only upside to sunrise was that it would knock me out cold. No way of fretting when you were dead to the world.

Camilla’s head hovered over my coffin. She tapped the wooden side, then offered me a sickly smile. I could see the concern in her eyes. Just fantastic. Her worry only amplified mine. I swear, my stomach felt like it’d been infested by the tower rats, all gnawing on my innards.

Before I could say anything, the sun flared to life, and I dropped dead.

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