Betrayed by her Blood. Claimed by the Night.

PE POV: Fire

said, the word a

ely from my desperate face down to my comfortab

e, considering the solemnity of the occasion?" he

to engage. I'm about to be hunted for my

rged, wearing her usual crimson ceremonial robes. "Go, Daug

three of the most massive, towering vampire forms I had ever witnessed. Their presence didn't just comman

ifying, each i

silvery-white glamour, a deceptive

an-gray, a deep shadow moving with t

lver, pulsating like moonlight-b

in my direction. They were too far to discern their faces clearly, yet the concentrated attention was a physical wei

right. I wasn't just going to collapse and make it easy for

off my clothes. My skin felt shockingly exposed in the cool night air, made even colder by the sheer, crushing p

naked,

in crimson light. It illuminated a circle cut into the grass-the Sanguine Circle, gl

rives," the Priest

enaline a burning fuse in my chest. When I reached the circle, I didn't pa

t tingle-it burst through my veins. It was a roaring, ag

swallowed by the roar in my ears. I felt something tearing inside my head, trying to break thr

cut through the searing noise. "Princes! Th

ic. The three colossal auras were no longer patient. They

ly fractured. And in that instant, a single, sharp command tore th

UN

read of real, white-hot concern that immediately fractured my

Sanguine Circle, leaving behind the warm, terrible slick on the earth, a