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A hopeless situation

I give her a long look “Why help h for whatever debt your family owes Rylan”

“Undoubtedly” She shrugs “Honestly, I was going to pay your hotel for a week and then leave today, but now that I know you can summon Azazel—or at least one of those vampires can—you’re stuck with me I need access to that demon”

I don’t tell her that her chances of finding her e and vast and odder things have happened It’s notinshot

I need my men back, I need to kill nancy publicly where no one can refute it to ensure s don’t hunt me until the end of days just like my father planned to I need to essentially crownNone of s are as forerous

The only path to peace is through power, and itmy father’s place as head of the compound…and head of the bloodline

Ironic, that

I hold three sets of bloodline powers inside me, but none of them were passed to me by my father

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I try to eat, knowing I need the calories for the bloodletting that comes next, but I last all of twentymy lunch Hopelessness wells up insideto suck me under

I’ve been in bad spots before I was born into a bad spot, a powerless dhampir in the compound my father rules Normally, dhampir children—those who are half human and half vampire—inherit powers from their vampire parent, at least if said vah Up until I ht I was defective

Turns out, in with

I brush y mirror I look like shit Dark circles stain the skin beneath reasy and lank I’ve lost weight, too; weight I can’t afford to lose I was hardly at peak health when all this started, though the blood the vampires shared with me seemed to do just as much as…