Chapter 18 AURORA Two days later days during which I did everything I could to keep the twins out of the way of the wolves from the Blue Ridge Pack Trajan and I were on our way to dinner with vampires .

Since Dane was my partner , I hesitantly agreed to contact him about it the morning of the dinner .

His Bela , Archer Fox , informed me that Dane was out of town .

The Mannerings were an old vampire family who had lived on the edge of Atlanta for years in an old , crumbling mansion that dated back to the Civil War .

Trajan and I pulled up the long drive just after sunset .

The vampire home wasnt as isolated as the pack houses wolves preferred , but it was still on its own deep in the woods .

We went to the door .

Before we could knock , it opened .

A voice drifted out it was breathy and old , and I couldnt tell if it belonged to a man or a woman .

Please , come in … I moved to step inside , but Trajan put a hand on my arm and met my eyes .

Let me go first .

I nodded , suddenly tense as he went in .

Chapter 18 2/6 Id had a few dealings with vampires before .

They werent nearly as common as wolves , and they didnt care as much for the modern world .

But what they did have was ancient knowledge .

If you ever needed information about a treasure , a curse , or anything like that , vampires would know .

If you dared enter their lairs and risk being killed , you could learn many things .

That was why I was here because my grandmother had gotten word from some of her own vampire contacts that this family might know more about the power we were after .

All we knew was that it was ancient and buried beneath the Appalachian Mountains .

That it was supposed to bring magic back to the world which would make already magical creatures even more powerful .

Trajan glanced back and nodded to me , and I slowly followed him in .

Theres a certain feel to vampire homes .

Opulent wealth thats decayed .

Ancient knowledge .

swoop out of the shadows and kill you any second

raised scar on my forearm a habit of mine

I forced my hands to

appeared in front

middle aged woman with perfect curls

, her skin was the white of

had her eyes on the floor as she bowed her head

?

have some information for us

around us on all sides ,

dark I couldnt even tell

Violet raised her eyes , and I realized

, except for the graying , death like

dont usually have strange

eyes were black with red irises

also , that she wasnt standing

of the vampires around us hung like puppets on strings

smiled , showing long , needle like

Welcome .

great need of your blood

Chapter 18 There it

heartbeat , said

the

really was

at me , then at the

Atlanta , at the best OBGYN in the city

office blurred in

want

to be happy

felt wrong

my life had gotten out of

off the feeling

put her arm through mine as we walked out a

pouted and wanted to leave through

take pictures of us as a happy couple

for now , which was why Id paid the doctor

suspicions about who sold the story of Aurora being a homewrecker to the tabloids

importance on public

care at all , if scandal didnt

reason the businesses mattered were because they supported the pack

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