Death Embraces
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“Four of us have the ability to remain conscious during the day,” Gregor said to Geordie to soothe his fears. “We’ll take turns to stand guard.”
That meant Igor had to be at least several hundred years old if he could resist the compulsion of dying when the sun came up. It was unnerving to be awake one moment then dead to the world once the first rays of sun hit the ground. Due to the truly crappy things that had happened to me since becoming the walking dead, I was far from being a normal vampire. I now slept like a human again, which meant I could stay awake if I wanted to. Most old vampires could resist the dark magic that took us down for the day but they eventually had to succumb to it again. I could stay awake for days if I wanted to, but it made me very cranky when I did.
Luc crossed his legs and made a graceful gesture with his hand. “I suggest we launch our plan as quickly as possible and track down the First before he can send more of his offspring after us.”
Gregor lifted an eyebrow while Igor took out a knife and began sharpening it. “We didn’t get a chance to discuss your plan in detail earlier. What did you have in mind?” Gregor was referring to the meeting we’d tried to have a couple of hours ago. We’d gathered on the top of a hill to decide what we were going to do and had ended up being attacked by a bunch of imps instead. We hadn’t even known they were there until they’d come boiling out of the night to attack us. Usually, I could sense imps when they were close. As Geordie had said, the First could somehow block this ability and mask his offspring from me.
Our small group of vampires was all that stood between the imp army and an unsuspecting humanity. I couldn’t help but have serious doubts about our chances of saving them, or ourselves.
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four