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Murderous

Lusian pushed away from the library doors and released an irritated breath He could taste the scent of Charlotte&039;s blood hanging in the air; it had slipped under the crack between the door and the floorboards while Valek fed The aroh his hair, the pain of the thirst er The s at the back of his throat would not quit Heabout the foyer

"I&039;ainst the library door The truth was, it wasn&039;t just the thirst His frustration was out of being here, in that house-in that godforsaken little village He missed the city The air filled with the perfume of thousands of war and nowhere, there was only the sh to drive hi he was the leader around here and holding them all under his thumb Sick of the way Charlotte played daht Needed the pulses of five women around him at one time He bit his lower lip and shook the fury away froroup with his arms folded neatly over his chest, snorted "We all are, Lusian Patience Valek will be done soon and then maybe he&039;ll let us back out to hunt our own hu back and forth in front of the library doors His throat, drier than the deserts of South Africa, which he&039;d called ho his mortal lifetime, seemed to burn worse with every throb He needed to s a living person&039;s warue He s at them with the back of his hand "I can&039;t take this I&039; with rinned siue coven only a feeeks back-escapees from an Occult in Slovakia Prisoners of war It had been one of the first outside of the Czech Republic invaded by the Regihetto Valek had accepted them out of mercy when he&039;d seen their abused, eh they hadn&039;t fed in weeks Valek always seeht, which htly odd, he was glad to see new facessteadily exhausted of looking at Plus, it didn&039;t hurt that they were, in fact, twins The thought rin in their direction, which they instantly returned, causing vengeful thoughts to sweep over the group frorinned at her, happy to see his ex-partner squirether after the coven had taken in the twins, and she noticed Lusian&039;s lustful thoughts She had always been the jealous type She sneered at hie continued, trying to reason with him "Valek will be done with her soon We just ca-"

"Elven blood doesn&039;t fix this!" Lusian pointed a jagged finger to the center of his throat and clutched at his chest

Dusana balled her hands up into fists at her sides She whipped her head toward Sasha, frowning, the pewter piercings on either side of her lips pulling down in a judgmental frown

"I&039;ll go," Sasha said toward her, his voice baritone and booe&039;s trilly one His thirsty, black eyes seemed only a shade darker than his ebony skin

"It is not sime are still out there? Every time one of us crosses that border, it&039;s another risk," Jorge argued again

He was edging on Lusian&039;s last nerve

"Then what&039;s the point of us calling ourselves liberated?" Lusian formed air quotes around his head has he muttered the last word He threw his arms up in the air "We are free, aren&039;t we?"

"That is not the reality yet, and you know it! Valek insists we rerumbled Dusana She crossed her tattooed arms over her s for hu only rats because we&039;ve sucked this countryside dry If the surviving ladly hand theain"

"We are free, but it is true There e out there! I don&039;t want to risk my neck for a meal when there&039;s an easy one just on the other side of these doors" With an extended talon, Jorge indicated the barred entrance to the library

Jorge was older than Lusian, and was able to maintain a little ht that to be a commendable attribute-al

"We need to convince Valek to let us at her again We&039;ll keep her safe Just like last ti, beginning to crawl up Lusian&039;s throat and burn in his nose The sloshy, thick sound of Charlotte&039;s heart throbbing just behind her rib cage, from the other side of the double doors, drove hiree," voiced the twins in quiet synchronization in response to his s once ht about her throbbing heart Lusian thought of it again and sed thickly

"Maybe it would be better of Valek allowed her as our ain," Dusana continued "When we can ensure that the rest of the Regi out in the open, again"

Behind closed eyes, Lusian iirl&039;s chest, just to taste it Hoarm and wonderful it would be as it filled his frozen veins He couldn&039;t bear it any longer and arguing about it was only oing to give over his precious little Lottie again Whoever is afraid can stay here I ah the front door and out into the night

The winter air barely stung at his skin as he raced down the cobblestone pathway and into the Occult town square The night wasn&039;t cold to him There was just a small shift in the way the air sainst the skin of his face when he ran Back in South Africa, there was never any sort of shift in the air It smelled the same three hundred sixty five days a year

Snodery and freshly fallen, flew up in little parting waves around his feet as he sped through it He sensed Sasha, who caught up easily alongside of hi at the exact sah theirone He recalled their first night in the house as Valek and the rest of the coven listened to theirbeen raised in an orphanage in their poor village because their biological parents probably didn&039;t knohat to do with thee saht by a man they referred to as "the scientist" The truth was, he was nothing one mad, curious about what it would be like to transfory worked through their systeh forever ?" Sasha&039;s voice was like a sonic boom over the rush of speed

"Kojakovice is the next hulanced behind to see that the rest of the coven had resolved to join theood hunt was ihteous little know-it-all Lusian grinned to hih the tunnel of trees Finally, he felt like the coven leader It was the way things should have been

It was a ht in a sky blanketed by thick clouds that held the proo and navy detail of the forest around hie Sasha roared behind hi to any other Va territory as their own The sound of it sent a jolt of excite the tone for what they were about to do