The Legacy of a Vampire Witch: The Complete Urban Fantasy Boxset by Theophilus Monroe

Author:Theophilus Monroe [Monroe, Theophilus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-20T22:00:00+00:00

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So much for bringing Hailey back to Casa do Diabo. Instead, I’d have to crash with her and Annabelle. We didn’t have many options. At the very least, since Vilokan was underground, we’d have more or less free reign no matter the hour of the day. Truthfully, most vampires were welcome in Vilokan provided we knew how to behave ourselves and didn’t make a meal of any of the citizens of the underground city. It was too good a deal for many vampires to pass up. But I’d lived in Casa do Diabo with Ramon and, until recently, Nico for more than a century. It was home. Besides, I couldn’t exactly guarantee that Ramon would be able to resist sampling from the population.

Moll didn’t join us there, though. Even when I’d known her before I’d been turned, she lived alone. Apparently she’d had children at some point. But when I met her, they’d all long left the nest. Living in a shared house in an underground community just wasn’t her style. I was reasonably sure she’d managed to find a barely standing abandoned house somewhere in the woods.

It wasn’t the first time I’d been to Vilokan since I left the asylum. I’d been back a few times to visit with Cain. The world’s first murderer (yes, he was that Cain) was also an accomplished psychologist. While he’d rightly identified that I had unresolved “daddy” issues to sort through, that wasn’t why I kept going back to see him. It was Edwin. My brother was still something of a recluse in my head. While he’d occasionally speak up about something casual, for the most part he stayed silent—unless we were on the hunt. Edwin craved torture—not so much that he wanted to be tortured, though it wouldn’t be surprising if he dug that, too, but he enjoyed seeing people suffer. His time in hell had turned him into something of a suffering junkie. And when I was on a hunt, it was like he saw an opportunity to indulge in his obsessions. If only there was a way to transfer his spirit to Ramon… the two would be a match made in hell. Ramon’s penchant for dismemberment and Edwin’s obsession with disembowelment would go together like bread and butter. I was averse to both behaviors—mostly because the thrill of either just wasn’t worth the risk that invariably accompanied such barbarism. There were ways to experience the thrill of a hunt without leaving bodies behind.

I wasn’t bringing Edwin to see Cain just so he could come to grips with his trauma and get over it. I was taking him there because, according to Cain, Edwin’s time in hell had given him something called PTSD. It’s what, back in the day, they used to call nostalgia, or soldier’s heart, and a bit later, shell shock. According to Cain, seeing other people suffer was a defense mechanism Edwin used to try and externalize his own memories of hell. He’d suffered so much that he’d

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