I am trembling at the agonizing, bleak emotions that I can feel pulsing through the bond now from Lanlin: It is like staring at an abyss but knowing that even the abyss doesn’t want to look back.
I am sobbing. I can’t stop.
I am alone in the dark. I will be alone for eternity.
Is this what dying feels like?
Whatwantingto die feels like?
How does Lanlin keep on living, when it’s like half of his soul has been ripped away?
Dazed, I blink down at a black Ankh symbol that has appeared above Daire’s silver snowflake on my wrist.
A bond mark, a Shadow Vampire one for the House of Sin.
Numb, I watch as a matching one rises on Lanlin’s wrist.
I’ve bonded with King Lanlin, before the Blood Moon.
I’m his Omega.
There is no going back now.
Perhaps, Lanlin’s touch truly does mean death.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Blood Lover’s Guild, Blood Kingdom
Daire
“Hey,I like rough play as much as the next fae, but watch the wings,” I holler over my shoulder, as I am unceremoniously shoved into the circular room, which is painted in red.
The door slams shut behind me.
I ruffle my feathers, resettling my wings agitatedly.
Those High Priestesses who run the Guild are so sensitive. I’d only been taking one of their dancing classes andmighthave been testing how far a Shadow Vampire’s blood lust could be provoked by baring my neck.
After all, wasn’t that what they were teaching me?
If I’d also scratched my nail secretly along my collarbone to reveal the nectar scent of my blood, then no one could prove it wasn’t accidental, aye?
If Lanlin, the fanged bastard, thinks that he can outwitme, then I am going to use this time to work out how to outwithim.
How bloody ironic that he thinks he’s protecting Freya from me.
At least I know that she still has my pinion feather.
Does Lanlin reckon he can part a fae from his soulmate? If he does, then he truly doesn’t know anything about true love.
Or fated mates.
Why did it feel like my heart being wrenched out of my chest to have someone whoIwas meant to be betraying…betray me instead?
To be kicked out of the pack, when I had only just allowed myself to believe after the loss of my family, friends, and kingdom that I could finally have one again?
Shows that I am a thrice devil damned fool.
