Mortis Vampire Series by J.C. Diem

Author:J.C. Diem
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dark fantasy series with vampires, vampire books, vampire series, paranormal romance series, urban fantasy series
Publisher: Seize The Night Agency
Published: 2016-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

ISHIDA FLICKED THROUGH the book. Reading rapidly, he frowned heavily. Answering his unspoken question, Kokoro bowed her head and explained. “You have been Emperor for ten thousand years, Ishida, but I was already ancient long before you were born.”

Ten thousand years? This kid has been in charge for ten thousand years? My eyes bulged at the information. I just couldn’t get past it.

“Our first emperor was a cruel and harsh man,” Kokoro explained. She was talking to me, but I believed she was trying to explain herself to her emperor as well. “He brought us to this remote island once we split from the Europeans, and ruled us with an iron fist. He captured humans and kept them as slaves, caring not if they lived in their own filth and died of disease.”

I could picture that quite easily. I’d seen something very like it beneath the prophet’s domain in Romania as well as in my dreams of the cavern of doom. That sort of behaviour alone was reason enough for me to wipe out the damned.

“I was once one of those humans. I was chosen to be a bed mate for the Emperor. Taken with my beauty, he turned me himself before age could ravage me.” She was delicately lovely, if you could overlook her creepy white eyes. “Waking as a vampire, I was instantly stricken blind and beheld a vision of our beginning. I raved of what I saw and of what was to come. I saw that our Emperor was tainted and he would eventually enslave his own kind, just as he did the humans.” Her shoulders shuddered delicately at the ancient memory. Ishida had clearly never heard this story before and was watching the seer intently.

“A guard who had been left to watch me when I woke told a few of his trusted friends about what I’d foreseen,” Kokoro went on to say. “He saw my white eyes and believed my vision would one day come to pass. Our ruler was already evil and the guard couldn’t bear to think that our people could end up as mere chattel. He and his trusted few fought their way into the Emperor’s bedchamber. The Emperor fought like a man possessed and perhaps he was, by our Father’s blood inside him.” She looked up at Ishida with her blind eyes, seeing past his physical body and directly into his dead heart. “They assassinated him by cutting his head off then were overrun by his loyal guards.”

“I was told the Europeans were behind the assassination,” Ishida said with the stirrings of anger. “Why was I lied to?”

“It wasn’t just you who was lied to, Ishida. Our entire nation has been kept in the dark to protect them. I could not afford for the truth to be told for fear it would destroy us as a people.”

“You decided?” The kid’s anger was coming out now. “Who are you to make decisions for our people?”

“I am the one who chose the next four Emperors,” she said proudly and Ishida looked stunned.

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