Chapter 59

Simone's POV

Outside the hotel, a battle wages as Knut breaks the protection spells place around me. I don't know who is fighting whom, but they're all very young neophytes, one dying after the other and falling from the sky as they do. "Where is Asmodeus?" I ask as I watch the battle rage on all sides.

"Left to kill more humans, I suspect," Knut said.

At last, he manages to break the final spell, but as I step through the window, a loud alarm starts to scream. alerting every vampire within earshot that Asmodeus's prize is about to escape.

Knut ignores the attack on us, but grabs me mid-air, tightly holding on to my waist as he easily outflies the much younger vampires that try to stop us.

He doesn't let me go as he flies us deep into the mountains where we rest in a cave for the day. We don’t speak, but he does give me blood when I wake the next morning.

We leave the mountains and fly across the dark ocean, landing on a deserted island out in the middle of nowhere. It reminds me a li