Time to set out and put an end to the nightmares and father drama these two have.
Traveling long distances is never easy for a vampire. First, there is the issue of sunlight. How much exposure will there be in your mode of travel, not to mention when traveling between countries or continents? Then there is the food factor. How long will you be traveling? Can you bring blood bags? If you can’t, how much control over your hunger do you have? So much goes into traveling. Probably why, unless forced to leave by hunters, food becoming scarce, or our secret being discovered, vampires will settle in one place. I suppose I should count myself lucky that Khalid is now related to some very wealthy and connected people. Not saying I don’t have money. I’ve been alive long enough to have plenty. But we can’t travel using any means that would be connected to me. It would be too obvious. So I suppose we owe thanks to John for letting us use a Kinsley private jet to fly to Cairo. It has a bedroom so I can sleep in the darkness with all the windows closed while the sun is out, and
I knew arriving in Cairo was going to come with dangers. I didn’t want the guild to know in advance that we had arrived, and I certainly wasn’t going to take any chances with Dani’s safety. I’d even taken measures to try and be proactive against the anti-vampire warding the guild has posted. I was confident I took every precaution. Yet we are being tailed by the guild. Someone must have told the guild that Dani is my mate. It’s the only thing I didn’t account for. All my safety measures were based on the base level anti-vampire protection the guild uses. But if they knew about Dani and me, they could have, and obviously must have, either added another layer to the warding to account for me or outright put up a warding to alert me when I arrived. Both are possible, and it isn’t like the guild doesn’t have my blood sample somewhere or couldn’t use my dad’s. It’s my fault for not thinking about that. I should have been prepared for them to be lying in wait for my return. And I’ll take t
I knew we should have gone after Toño first. I had a sinking feeling that coming to his father would be more trouble than he expected. I love Khalid… wait, did I admit that? Ignore that. I said nothing. Anyways Khalid is still young and STUPID! He still sees his dad as a loving parent. He should have learned from his mistakes with his mother to realize his dad would be a monster too. A prime example is I’m hanging from a ceiling in what appears to be a windowless cell by chains soaked in vervain. It burns like a son of a bitch, and I’m going to have to drain a couple of bastards to recover from the burns it’s leaving on my skin. But I’m willing to do that. I’ll drink the guild fucking dry and feel no remorse. “So you’re the bloodsucking whore that brainwashed my son.” A man scoffed, making his presence known. He’d been sitting, observing me from a chair, thinking himself invisible. Right, because I didn’t know his dumbass was sitting there like some creep. I narrowed my eyes at the
Shit, my head hurts. I’ve gotten too complacent living among wolves. Hunter me would never have let this happen. Then again, This all comes back to me not making sure Blaine was dead that night in Mexico. Stupid mistake, and now it’s going to cost me. Worse, it’s going to cost Dani. Oh fuck… Dani! I groaned, forcing my eyes to open as far as they could. While I was out because of the tranquilizer, someone decided to use me as a punching bag. Oh, look, I’m even hung from the ceiling like one. One guess who that was. “Look who’s finally waking up. I was starting to get bored beating you while you were unconscious. If you didn’t come around in the next ten minutes, I was going to check on your bloodsucker whore. Maybe see about getting some alone time with her. I mean, her standards must be low to have marked you.” Blaine scoffed. I could feel the anger bubbling over in my gut at his implication of even touching Daniela. “Blaine….” I huffed, keeping my voice a whisper. “I need to t
“He’s down here,” I called, waving the others after me as I followed the tether of the mate bond. He was hurt. That much was a given. But I can also feel his emotions. He’s pissed and… surprised? What about any of this is surprising? Blaine got turned in Mexico, so he’s working for Toño, so he must have brokered the deal between the clan at the guild. It makes perfect sense. The enemy of my enemy, not to mention if there was any hesitation from the guild, Toño would have used his powers to make them compliant. “So that we understand the situation. Your human mate is the heir to the Adio hunter guild.” Aidan arched his brow. “And he’s currently being held by your sire, who is working with the guild to try and capture you because he has a twisted obsession with bringing you to his side.” Isak nodded. “Let’s not forget the part where you are both the Deltas for a werewolf pack. How does that even work? Here I thought the three of us being friends was an oddity in the supernatural worl
This cannot be happening. Toño is one twisted son of a bitch working this angle for decades. Why now, though? Why bring her son out now? Why not leverage him years ago? What makes now the right time to play this trump card? Is he that desperate? He must be. He’s had Agustín all this time. He even managed to keep his existence from Dani. He was waiting for the best moment to hit her with this. When the room filled with smoke and the door slammed open, I knew exactly what the source was. Odd that Agustín and more so Toño were taken by surprise. Have they never encountered a demon before? It seems they don’t venture very far from home if that’s the case. Even I took down a demon when I was fourteen. It was my rite of passage to be a full-fledged hunter. My mother chose my target. Of course, she’d chosen one of the most difficult supernatural beings to face. It nearly killed me, but I killed the demon before he managed to kill me. I remember how proud mom was when I returned with the
This is my worst nightmare coming to life. Toño is holding Khalid by the throat, his hand ready and itching to rip his heart out. He takes pleasure in killing people I care about, especially in front of me. I can’t let this happen! I can’t lose Khalid. Of course, the damn asshole would choose NOW to tell me he loves me. I haven’t heard those words since I was human. My backstabbing piece of trash boyfriend whispered them along with promises of marrying me and starting a family in America. Cirilo may not have meant it, or at least not unconditionally, but Khalid does. I can feel it through our bond. I started to move, hoping to get there fast enough. I won’t let Khalid die. I will not let my nightmare become a reality. I can’t just wake up and reach for his half of the bed to be sure he’s safe. This is happening, and if I don’t stop Toño, I will lose the man I love. Now I, like most vampires, can move very fast. But I’m not as fast as Caleb or apparently as fast as my son. All the co
I don’t know what’s harder to believe. That Diana is here simply because she was Toño’s prisoner or Sameer supporting me had created a domino effect within the others from the guild down here. I’m going to go with the latter. It isn’t that I find Sameer believing me a hard pill to swallow. He’s been my best friend since we were in diapers. He is to me what Silvercloud is to Kurt. The person will always have your back, even if you lead them down stupid paths. “Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for the support. But other than Sameer, I find it hard to believe that you believe my words. We’ve all worked together as hunters, and while your dislike of me was never as apparent as Blaine’s, I still knew most of you didn’t like me because I was the Adio heir. So why believe me? Or is it more than you believe Sameer?” I questioned. “Khalid, my dear friend, have some more faith in your brethren than that. No one ever disliked you.” Sameer sighed, stepping closer. I arched an eyebrow because we kno