88. Blood Temple

(ELYN)

(A week later…)

It was calm. But the calm wouldn’t last. The whispers were coming once again. The darkness was waiting. And I knew.

We knew it wasn’t over yet, but this time, we didn’t want to wait. We found out from Rebecca that the dark vampires had holed up in the woods of Dorchas.

"Let’s go.” I looked at Zien and he smiled. “It seems like the others have abandoned Lord Coulton.”

“It seems like that. I told you we can trust Rebecca,” I said to him and he gave me a look and rolled his eyes. “And the sexual tension…”

“What sexual tension? Shut up,” he said, but I saw the look in his eyes and smirked to myself and Ares shook his head, poking a finger against my head.

''I am leaving." Rebecca came back from talking with Meli. She stopped as she looked at me. "If you can talk some sense into him... not all of us are bad. Assuming that doesn't make him better than them," she mumbled under her breath as she watched Zien with a frown. "We can't withstand another war."

I did