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Close to the surface, his skin prickled in alarotten and the ht He rarely rose right at sunset, knowing just being touched by the rays of the sun, as weak as they ht be at that tis after He had no choice; the moment he could, he would have to rise to counteract whatever plan Vadi for just such an event, working to make it happen, and that meant Vadim ell prepared
He waited just inches fro his toes and then his feet, all the while cognizant of countering the activity so the evil spreading so round wouldn’t detect his movement He was part of the earth itself and the soil would never betray hiot too close to hih to carry it away
He didn’t know ianeach person above the ground, needing to knohere they were Five children Two adult females All were huhing, unaware of the danger to the deeply, put under by the corruption of the child’s sleeping spell It wouldn’t be so easy to wake her now The other fe to wake She had to be unbelievably strong to fight that spell She was the target – Emeline Of course When Vadim had taken her captive, he’d taken her blood, and nohispered to her day and night, trying to wear her down and force her to come to him, or at least that hat she had told Blaze Why would Vadim want this particular psychic woo close to hu an exception for the security tea the information from her head Tariq, Maksim and the others had beco vae They didn’t make decisions based on safety, but rather what the humans would accept in their new, modern world That made no sense to him, and it never would One used any and all means possible to defeat evil There wasn’t worry about sensibilities or wording a request correctly so it didn’t cohed He didn’t fit and never would He defeated evil, and new rules of etiquette be damned
He sent E her a small boost of power had to be done with a delicate touch He couldn’t nature, Vadim would be able to read his He wasn’t certain as important about the woman, but h to try to fight it, that she recognized the darkness woven into the child’s spell, ht Vadi, whichIn his opinion, Tariq and the others should have taken the th and power It didn’t ive her aid They should have healed her She endangered the entire coomir didn’t stop him, the vampire would reacquire the woman and perhaps destroy everyone else in the compound
He waited just beneath the surface, rich loanals that told hi for the sun to set Even before the last rays had faded, he heard the opening attack The laughter of children turned to screaround all around the play yard He couldn’t wait The sounds of children crying and screa in alarm drove him from the safety of the earth He couldn’t leave theet your men in position to aid those in the play yard I’ll tell you when I want you to open up
Copy that Matt’s voice was devoid of eo into battle
Dragomir’s skin smoked and blistered as he rushed toward the sky and the two injured dragons tu on, he didn’t know The dragons, one orange and one broere large and they fell end over end, and then rolled like barrels, leaving a trail of blood in the sky He saw everything on a dull grayish canvas, so that the various colors were identified only froray over the centuries
On the Carpathian telepathic pathway, he sent out the distress call Rise The battle is on us Come to us now
The clouds flickered dark and then flashed, illu forked through thehter, turned a fiery red, and adown on the play yard One oently toward the ground He caught the orange dragon, reirl froround beside the brown dragon He threw a shield over the boy and girl and their beasts
"Don’t put your dragons away until I give the colare "Get to the sleeping woet her under cover" He caught the girl by her hair and forced her to look hiive the coons"
She nodded She looked terrified, her face white Her gaze left his face and went to the children above theet them," he promised
"Please," she whispered
For some odd reason that little breathless plea affected hi usually did He didn’t feel emotion He didn’t even hear the whispers of temptation to kill for the rush, but that soft entreaty stirred sonize, nor did he have tined all around hiher toward the dangerous clouds, below hi out over and over, her voice penetrating right to his soul
All around hied one and realized by the trajectories that they were ai to kill five huirl so that she stu woround almost at the feet of Emeline Vadiomir was anywhere close Either that or it didn’t matter to him, in which case, the entire lot of the in horror at the vampire He appeared to be perfect by human standards, lean and fit, with flawless pale skin and white teeth His hair was cropped short and he wore theon him as if made for him – and of course it had been
"At last, my dear You should have come to me when I called you Now you’ve left one and he took one step and caught her by the hair, bunching the long tangles in his fist and jerking her head close to his "You will pay for your disobedience Every one of those children will die"
Eoo with you Just don’t hurt theo fiercely as a kaleidoscope of colors burst in front of hihtness that nearly blinded him Instantly he was sick and disoriented, his balance off For a ht out, and he stopped in ain now Had you come to me any of the thousands of times I commanded you, I would have spared them Not no you need a lesson"
She kicked the va it with an elbow to his ribs It had to hurt Vadim held her by her hair, but she didn’t stop "I won’t let you," she bit out, still fighting