Noc City (Book One) by Penn Cassidy

Author:Penn Cassidy [Cassidy, Penn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-20T22:00:00+00:00

The next day passed in much the same fashion. I spent my time lying on the padded floor, chained there like a dog. My captors must have been watching me closely, because they caught on to my sleeping schedule fast. When I woke up, it was usually to find a fresh plate of food in front of me.

I ate, though reluctantly. They alternated bringing me water and wine. I preferred the wine. As a dhampir, I didn’t actually need much food or drink. In the twelve months since that side of me woke up, I’d realized I was changing. I did a lot of research in the days following the assassination of my brother. When the spray of his blood hit my face and a single drop hit my tongue, it’d woken up the creature in me, and then it was all downhill from there.

I’d become stronger at first, before my body realized I was letting it starve. I was faster, sharper, and even a bit smarter. It was like my entire body was functioning at a level of perfection a human could never achieve. I hated the sun, but didn’t burn in it like a vampire. Dhampirs were abominations in the human world, but I didn’t understand the hatred. Right now though, as I lay on the floor staring at the ceiling, I wondered what would’ve happened to me had I given into the bloodlust. Would I have been strong enough to stop Carson or Ryan? Would I have been so easily captured by these mysterious men?

I didn’t know. The what-ifs were likely going to keep me up at night for the foreseeable future. There were so many things I could’ve done differently, and I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on them. But then how would that help me? What I needed to do was figure out a way to handle these men. I needed to know what it was they thought I knew. Obviously, there was some kind of secret that they believed Ryan told me, even if they were dead wrong.

Ryan Harker was a lot of things—a horrible man, a sadist, a racist, and a liar. Those were just the names that stuck out the most. Even before we found out I wasn’t his, I knew there was something off about him. I still didn’t understand the draw my mother must’ve felt towards him. Sure he was handsome, but it was a plastic sort of charm. None of it was real, and apparently, my mom was too dense to realize that. I wanted to feel bad for her, having to share his bed and smile for his cameras all day, every day. I couldn’t imagine she’d planned for her life to end up like this.

But as bad as I felt, I knew she’d made her own bed. She’d married a wealthy and powerful man, and still made the choice to go behind his back with a vampire and have a child. What the hell was she thinking?

The lights went off, and my whole body locked up.

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