I spun it away. “Let him down.”
“I said no!I will watch him suffer! I will make him bleed! I will drain him again and again!”
Savion was in front of me in a heartbeat—vampire speed right into my face.There it was. “And I will kill you, dear daughter because you were fucked by that demon.”
“What did he do to you?” I asked, quietly.
“He judged me guilty!” the words were roared. “He would have put me to death when there was no death penalty in S’Kir. He would have me killed just like his wife!”
Roran spoke from the stairs. “He had Stone Castle prison built for both of you.”
I maneuvered our swords so I could see the top of the stairs. I didn’t know how they did it, but the twins waited there.
Aiko was below, leading a handful of soldiers.
Vampire soldiers.
Savion pointed to Roran. “S’Kir has no death penalty!”
“That’s why he built Stone Castle!” Rilen answered.
“Then why did he kill Violet?!”
Dorian growled. “…selling children…”
I gasped and stared at Savion. Sellingchildren.
“He hadn’t realized you all were stealingandselling the children into slavery,” Rilen finished. “None of you were innocent.”
“Violet and Niallan only brought me the children!”
Roran was suddenly in his face in a burst of speed. “And you turned the girls into sex slaves.”
My breath rushed out of my lungs. “Oh, my gods…”
Rilen quirked an eyebrow. “Do you really think they didn’t know that?”
“You can’t sentence someone to death when there is no penalty like that!”
It hit me like a rock—he didn’t deny what he did.
He and two other people had stolen children and sold them into sex slavery.
Savion was arguing a technicality.
He sold children.
I roared and shot forward. “You stole my mother! You kept her for your own perversions!”
He was barely able to stop my sword. I was driving the blade at him, over and over, mindless and pissed.
He was laughing at me.
Why was he laughing? I was going to kill him.
Savion’s blade sliced my side.
“Kimber!” Four voices.
