“We’re here to see someone.”
I was suddenly remembering that I was kidnapped, and that he said he had ‘plans’ for me. The history of my kind was flashing through my mind.
“I think I’m good in the car. You go and have your visit. I’ll stay put.”
“We’re in a vampire compound. You’ve awakened her, and they’ll smell her. A vehicle won’t stop them from coming in here, and I’d rather not have to declare war on an entire species. You’re coming with me.”
The vehicle had stopped, and his door opened.
He waited.
I glanced out my door. A vampire was there, waiting to open it for me.
I moved across my seat. “I think I’m good going inside with you.”
He made no sound, but I could feel his amusement as he got out first.
I was second, and he had stepped aside, waiting for me.
The driver was standing outside the door, and as we moved ahead, he shut the door behind us.
It was dark outside, but with my new inner creature, I was seeing in the dark as if it were light. The house in front of us looked like a place that’d be in a horror film, though. Vampires were all around us. On the front porch area, standing around the pillars built into the house. Behind us. I glanced around, and they were even on the gate and a wall that surrounded the compound.
Glancing up, Kieran had been watching me.
He did not seem disturbed at all.
Me? I was perturbed. I stayed away from vampires as a general rule. They tended to like my carotid artery a bit too much for me. I could feel their energy, and it never sat right with me.
I mean, I stayed away from most supernatural beings, with a few exceptions like Nikki, whose demonic side was unnaturally happy, except for nights like tonight. Dissension night. And family members like Ralph, because he got it. He understood.
We always felt like prey.
As a whole, we weren’t really aggressive either, which evolution-wise didn’t help us.
A grand black door opened, and we went inside.
A vampire fell in step in front of us, and Kieran followed.
It was an old house, with a ballroom on one side and a room with a fireplace on the other. A grand stairwell wrapped up in front of us. We bypassed pretty much everything, going to the back of the house, which seemed to take forever because I was clocking forty vampires that we passed. They were looking down at us from the second floor, and staring at us as we went past, then coming out to congregate in the hallway.
Creepy as fuck.
The room we were shown into looked like a large hall that had more pillars holding up the ceiling. A podium with three large stairs was at the back of the room, complete with a throne. The chair was big enough to sit four people, and the back of it almost touched the ceiling.
A lone body lounged on the chair. Gee, overkill much?
I couldn’t tell if he or she was a female or male. He had feminine features, so her face looked soft, but the energy was masculine. They rose, and as their eyes saw me, they lit up. “You’ve brought me a gift, Kieran.”
She had a soft, feminine tone, and she clapped her hands together. “I’m so excited. And it’s a newly born energist. Even better.”
Kieran didn’t spare me a look. “For you? I thought she’d been sent from you. I found her in my nightclub.”
She paused, her head cocking to the side. “You own the new demon bar, Bass. Such a trite establishment. I don’t know why you’d want to own that building.”
“Right. Because you wouldn't want to own the opening for where the demon masters submerge? I have a hard time believing that.” He stepped aside and nodded to me. “She came to me in the oddest chain of events, and since at the heart of it was one of yours, I was sure she was a present from you.”
What?
The vampiress still didn’t move. She seemed almost like a statue, and she touched her chest with a dainty hand. “Please, Kieran. I’m riveted. Tell me more.” As she spoke, she turned her hand, and one of her nails cut her own skin. She drew a line down between her breasts, leaning back in her chair. Blood began to pool out, and with a flick of a wrist, she was descended upon by three other vampires. All who sucked from that trail of blood, and as they sank their teeth into her, she gasped, grasping the back of one of the vampires’ heads.
The sexual and hunger-filled energy rolled off all of them, and as the first wave of her energy rolled over me, her eyes were studying my every reaction.
She did that on purpose.
I had to steel myself against how my own creature started stirring, awakening again, but she only wanted Kieran.