Prince of Midnight (Dracula's Bloodline Book 1) by Ana Calin

Author:Ana Calin [Calin, Ana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dracula, angels, Blood, shifters, Vampires
Publisher: Ana Calin
Published: 2018-12-17T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER X

Juliet

A pile it is indeed, but of women inside a cell. A group of women in rags, tangled hair over their faces, holding on to each other. They move around with twisted bodies like possessed creatures, but I can’t see any of their faces.

Victoria seems frozen in time, simply holding up her torch so that I can see, but not making another move. The only thing moving is this slimy ball of women tangling with each other like snakes, making hissing and piping sounds.

Exactly like with horror movies, I don’t want to see, but I can’t look away either. Curiosity pushes me closer and closer to the cell, hoping to get a glimpse of at least one face.

One of the women rips from the slimy ball and throws herself like a furious orangutan against the grate, banging hard against the iron. I scream and fall on my butt.

My heart hammers crazily against my ribcage. My eyes widen gradually as the woman trickles down along the grate, holding to two bars. Between them, I can see her face clearly, framed by dull black hair. It’s the scariest thing I’ve seen in my life.

Her skin is porous and reddish like the skin I’ve glimpsed around Radek’s eyes, her irises washed-out as if they’re one with her eyeballs. Her nose is caved in as if only the skeleton holes are left, and the lips...

She jerks forward and spits at me, black slime bolting straight to my face. Just a split second before it hits me, Victoria kicks me out of the way, and blocks the black slime with the handle of her torch. Wow, she wields it like she would a sword.

“Okay, you’ve seen enough,” she says, helping me up and dragging me in the direction opposite from the cell, towards a tunnel so dark it seems a black a hole. Panic engulfs me as I glance behind, feeling like there’s no escape—impenetrable darkness ahead, monster women behind.

“What the fuck was that?” I squeal, compulsively checking the darkness that closes in behind us as we head deeper inside the dark tunnel. Victoria’s torch becomes weaker and weaker, barely illuminating a few inches in front of us, as if we’re advancing through a black blizzard.

“You wanted to know, right?” she whispers breathlessly. “Would you have believed me if I’d only just told you he keeps all his former mistresses locked in an underground dungeon?”

A new feeling accompanies the horror that creased every inch of my skin—disgust. Radek is indeed a monster, inside and out.

“Did those women end up like this because they slept with him?”

“Yes. He drained them of youth and beauty. It’s what will happen to you as well if you stay within his power.”

“Fuck, that black thing she spat at me... what was it?”

“Foul body liquid. Those women are living corpses.”

“Sort of like zombies?”

“Sort of. But worse.”

“Hell, how do you know your way so well in this darkness?” Victoria keeps her grip firm on my elbow as she leads the way,

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