Seduced by Death (Vegas Immortals: Death and the Last Vampire Book 3) by Holly Roberds

Author:Holly Roberds [Roberds, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-06-08T16:00:00+00:00

14

Vivien

“We’ll both feel better once we have a little caffeine.” Miranda sat me down at Perkatory.

I said nothing. Grief vibrated through my being as my ass hit the hard chair. All I could think was I needed to get Grim back.

The thought of waiting a hundred years or more to see him again made my insides ache. But if I could be with him, I’d wait forever.

Raise hell in the meantime, of course, but I belonged with him as he did with me.

Still, my fingers curled into my palms, digging in against the arduous inching of time between me and him.

I understood now. Grim explained forever meant having that much more time to experience the pain. And I kept him hanging on that edge of uncertainty, straining to know the depths of my feelings. Did the moments crawl along like this for him in between my weak excuses that I needed more time? I’d been a coward. And I was disgusted with myself.

Miranda disappeared over to the café line, and I sat there growing colder by the second. Timothy went to retrieve blood for me, but the thought of drinking blood, anyone else’s blood, made me positively ill.

My arms curled into my stomach as I became a small ball in my seat.

I kept trying to remind myself Grim wasn’t really dead. He was asleep in some place called the cradle? And no one was going to help me find the cradle, or Grim. They’d all said it was too dangerous, and that Grim would have to choose when and if he would return.

I knew in my heart that he would come back. Grim didn’t want to go. We were forever, and if that meant waiting a hundred years until he rose again, so be it. I had faith that he would return and when he did, I’d tell him I love him. That I was sorry I couldn’t say it until he’d gone.

I shut my eyes hard, willing myself to believe I could wait and trust like that.

The hairs along the back of my neck and arms rose, and my blood rushed faster.

Before I knew why, I stood up and turned around in time to see five vampires stride into the lobby. Their eyes were crimson, and they all suffered from fruit punch mouth. More than that, they were all showgirls, scantily clad in rhinestones, and decorated in big, brightly-colored feathers.

The one dressed in sapphire blue grabbed a doorman and sunk her teeth into his neck. Blood spurted as he cried out.

The rest of the vampires fanned out, grabbing people and biting as if they’d stumbled upon an all-you-can-eat buffet.

In a blink, I leapt over the foliage separating Perkatory from the lobby.

“Hey,” I shouted at Sapphire. “Put Raphael down.”

The doorman had already passed out, but I could still hear his heart thrumming faintly.

Sapphire’s head reared up from her snack, staring at me with a strange, almost alien expression.

I recognized that look.

Being turned into a vampire didn’t make a person evil, and what I saw in her eyes wasn’t hunger.

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