Midnight Rising: A Midnight Breed Novel (The Midnight Breed Series Book 4) by Lara Adrian

Author:Lara Adrian [Adrian, Lara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780440337461
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2008-03-24T23:00:00+00:00

Confined within the UV light cell, the Ancient threw his head back and let out a hellish roar. Blood dripped off the huge fangs and onto the broad, naked chest that was livid with the pulsing color of the vampire’s glyphs.

“Lock down those damn restraints,” barked his keeper, speaking to his Minions through a small microphone in the observation room outside the cell. “And for crissake, clean up that mess in there.”

The robotic shackles snaked out sharply and caught the Ancient’s thick arms and legs. With a programmic command, they seized up tight, yanking him nearly off his feet. He struggled against the bonds, but he wasn’t going anywhere. Thrashing futilely, he peeled back his lips and bellowed again. The wordless howl was one of unmistakable fury as his immense body was dominated by industrial-grade titanium and steel.

He was still erect from the breeding that had gone so violently wrong, still lusting for blood and for the body of the lifeless female that was being hastily—and posthumously—evacuated from the cage.

The Breedmate had been savaged. Hard nails and fangs left their mark all over her, and before the Ancient could be pulled off her, the female was dead. She wasn’t the first, not even close. Over the nearly five decades since the Ancient had been awakened from his hibernation and brought under his keeper’s control, feeding him—and breeding him—had proven to be a very costly, frustrating endeavor.

For all the technology and money at his disposal, there was no science in existence that could replace the kind of base rutting that had taken place in the prisoner’s cell a short while ago. Flesh on flesh coupling was the only viable means of conception when it came to the Ancient, and the rest of the Breed as well. But sex was only part of the process. It took ejaculation, along with a simultaneous exchange of blood at that precise moment, for vampire life to take root in a Breedmate female’s body.

Normally, bonded couples looking to conceive reveled in the deliberate, sensual act of creating life. Not so in this place. Down here, with the savage, alien creature rendered insane from starvation, pain, and confinement, conception was a life-and-death gamble. Casualties like the one today were part of the equation. Deaths were to be expected.

But there had been successes, and that made all the risk worthwhile. For every Breedmate killed in this process, two others made it out alive…with the seeds of a powerful new generation planted deep in their wombs.

The Ancient’s keeper smiled privately despite the day’s loss.

That powerful new generation was already growing, coming of age in secret.

And its allegiance belonged entirely to him.

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