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"May! Craay and hide! Please!" I shoved her away fro back to the Bride

You must join us and feast

"I would rather die," I answered

May was screa me out in the darkness I could not stand the sound of her cries and tears slipped down my cheeks The blond varasp on htened She slid effortlessly into the trunk and pulled me doith her The lid shut with a loud boohtly around ht has come," she whispered in my ear "Our sisters awaken"

May found the trunk and beat at it with her hands "Glynis, Glynis, Glynis, please co? Glynis, Glynis! Let me hide with you!"

I reached out to shove the lid upwards, but I was restrained by the va child You are too weak to defend her against Ariana and Elina Listen They are rising"

I could hear the sound of the lids being shoved open with loud thundering clashes May began to scream in terror and beat on the lid of the coffin

"Glynis! Glynis!"

The soft h the darkness as May pounded on the lid of the trunk

I struggled to free myself, to lift the lid to defend my sister, but I was too weak and the vampire held me firmly

"May, May, hide! May!"

May’s terrified screafor my sister I could taste May’s fear and it was delicious

I wept

"Hide, May, hide!"

But I kneas in vain

She screamed, then there was a loud thuhter of the dark Brides ht the blond vampire, but she easily overwheliven her to us It is his will But I choose not to feed," the blond vampire whispered to me "And you will not bear witness to your sister’s death" She clamped her hands over my ears and covered me with her body It was later, when I saw her dress stained with blood that I realized she had kept h the cracks in the lid In a soft voice, she began to hum to h I cannot explain it, I found comfort in her touch So to protect ely, I accepted this

The sight ofin reat relief I knew May had fainted away and was oblivious of her fate She was so frail her death would coels," I whispered, crying in the arht - Continued

I have locked myself away and will refuse their invitations to join them I shall write until I can write no ht of my sister’s death, the wolves howled and the voices of the eternal night whispered in breathless anticipation as my sister’s life drained away The only sound within the s of an ancient lullaby and theof rich, dark blood

I lay in the ar, for I knew that I had lost my sister I wanted to die and join her

Abruptly, the door of the chamber slammed open I felt Vlad Dracula’s presence fill the rooh a crack in the trunk’s side The torchlight from the hallway illureeted with the gruesoht he had anticipated The frail body of e trunks in the roo as death approached, her blanched face framed by the dark hair of the two dark Brides

"What is this?" he shouted furiously

One of the Brides, the one with the long curly hair, raised her head and hissed at hirabbed hold of the Bride and hurled her across the rooue licking her bloody lips

"Mercy, Master, forgive our wrongs," she said "But we are so hungry Did you not give us the girl?"

"Where is Cneajna? And where is my neife?"

I felt the brush of the blond vary Let er"

"We saw thery, Master," the dark haired Bride said, falling to her knees

The second Bride crawled back into view, hissing softly

"Glynis was to feed froirl This was to be her first kill" His voice was harsh, his eyes cruel I could see that his anger was barely restrained

Cneajna, for I no that to be her na hand and touched the crack Suddenly, she see into vapor, then rapidly solidifying on the other side "I feared for her sanity," she said Her long pale hair fell about her like a golden cloak

Vlad glared at her with harsh eyes "Where is she? Where is Glynis?" His voice had taken on a dark htly "She is not ready for her first kill She is not yet as we are I feared the h explanations! Where is she, Cneajna?"

Cneajna seeht better of it Her eyes slid to the trunk I was hiding within

Clearly furious, Vlad viciously shoved her aside, striding swiftly toward the trunk As he passed May’s body, he flung it aside as if it were nothing rowl, the curly haired vampire scuttled across the floor and hunched over rily

I shrank back into a corner of the trunk, drawingmy face Vlad wrenched the lid off the trunk and peered down atto curlviolently, I tried to avoid his gaze, cowering in the shadows

"You were to feed," he said in a hard voice

I hugged

Cneajna huered husband and knelt before hily "Please, Master, she is yet hued She would not feed And her sister-"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>