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Alexander stood in the ripping hie, he&039;d pictured in his ht the Order, had tried to conjure their i around hie that he had no control over where he flashed and when The Order had connected with hi with him
He felt Sara&039;s small, supple body shake From cold, from desire, from fear? He wasn&039;t certain, but he pulled her closer Yes, he&039;d vowed to protect her, but there was so in him that warned that he needed protection too A shift had occurred back at the lighthouse--his lighthouse, the one that had once been his salvation, had brought him back to life A switch had been flipped when he&039;d heard her speak of her past, her pain, when he&039;d pulled her onto his lap and her body had responded so intuitively, so perfectly
The craving to mark her wasn&039;t out of a desperate need to take her blood--that he could understand, he could deal with-- that he was accusto that pulsed within hi else entirely He wanted her to feed hireater than blood
She eased back then, looked up at him with those lovely blueberry eyes "Any idea where we are, vaht, as his body pulsed with life, with need He ell and truly fucked This woman ruled his heart while the Order ruled his lanced around at the campus, not so very different than it had been a hundred years before "On the grounds of Creglock Academy"
"A school?"
"Lucian went here"
"A vampire school?"
"No Hard-corehuman children
His ht years old, then walked away for good It was a nightreer than the other children"
Sara looked appalled "His row like the other kids, and then never came back? She didn&039;t even check on him?"
Alexander frowned It was little wonder that Lucian distrusted all females as he did "He went froow to this He was broken here, every bit of a young one&039;s softness destroyed"
"Hisa prize as yours"
"Yes"
"Did Nicholas have the same situation?"
"No Nicholas&039;s mother never punished him for his existence He did it for her
Still does" Alexander caught her looking at him with that sahthouse and he pulled the plug on the questions and answers "What tilanced down at her watch "One thirty"
"Shit I need to pulland everyone and concentrate on the Order" Alexander closed his eyes and thrust every ie but one
It was only his perception of thean at his feet, shot upward, and with a rush of wind, they were gone This tiround they were in the woods, outside a cave and it aro, for him and his brothers It here they&039;d learned to use primitive weapons, where Alexander&039;s friend and teacher had gone arowl ru for all eternity for such an event, and even after he was dust they could go fuck thehed, moved away from him, and went to the ainst the rock She looked pale, tired, yet so fragile in her beauty
He went to her and knelt down beside her "Are you okay?"
"A little nauseous"
"I&039; would do to your system"
"It&039;s okay I&039;ll be fine I&039;ve never really been a solid flier"
He grinned
Dropping her head back against the cool rock, she looked out at the brush
"Maybe it&039;s me"
"What do you mean?"
"Maybe they won&039;t see you because you&039;re with"No doubt they&039;re just playing with h to force h morpho before its tiet me"
"Morpho?"
"The time of maturity for a paven, a Pureblood male vampire"
"Is that what happened outside ht and the brands on your skin?"
"Yes"
"Why would they do that?"
"I don&039;t know, but I will--" There was a loud booainst a mile of sky Instinctively, Alexander started toward Sara, but an invisible hook wrapped his waist and pulled He clawed at the air, but it was useless He was sucked into a tunnel, seeing nothing but black, and seconds later, he was standing on sand and Sara was nowhere in sight
"Welco Male"
Alexander dropped into fighting position, his eyes flickering around, looking for the origin of the voice and a weapon he could use against it A sheet of sand whipped up in front of hihts were attached to each grain
Before hi remarkably like a modern version of the Last Supper were the ten ancientlike what he&039;d irown paven: ghostlike, other-worldly, paper thin, yet lethal to the core No doubt the latter was true, but the ruling ten were as solid, as three dimensional as he was They sat in their chairs, hands folded on the glass table, eyes trained on him Each wore a red monklike robe, had a black circle, a perfect O, branded around each of their left eyes, and except for the three veana rowled ly
The Order member at the far left, a paven with electric sky blue eyes and a black beard that tapered into a perfect point at the end, spoke first "She is well Asleep She won&039;t even realize you&039;ve gone"
Alexander&039;s fingers twitched as he i around the neck of eachuntil their eyes popped as wide as their brands
"You&039;d better be right or we&039;re going to have a serious proble his set of brick red fangs--another syer had been co blood was over "Morpho agrees with you, son of the Breeding Male"
"How did you find me?" Alexander snarled
"The human female you nearly devoured"
"Impossible!" Alexander roared "I didn&039;t take her life" Aside fro was the only other way the Order could track either an Impure or a Pureblood outside of the credenti
"No, but the Impure atched you, then drank from the human after you left, did--he stopped her heart in under a minute" The older paven sneered "Sloppy little sacro bastard But his memories did lead us to you"
Alexander&039;s eyes flashed at the black-haired paven Once again, his uncontrolled hunger had imprisoned him "What is it you want?"
"You&039;ve run fro It is time You and your brothers must help your kind"
"Help?" Alexander released a bitter laugh "You&039;re asking me to help the ones who tormented and tortured me? That&039;s why you premorphed me?"
"You speak of one or two in the credenti, not the Eternal Breed as a whole"
"I speak of you"
"You accuse the Order of torture? Tread lightly, son of the Breeding Male"
A growl erupted from Alexander and he warned the ain and you will see how deeply I have morphed!"