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“Prisoner?”
“Guest,” he corrected, casually leaning against the doorframe.
My eyes narrowed. “If that’s true, then I will be leaving.”
He sidestepped, extending his arm. “Go. You won’t make it far.”
I hated that he was right. I wouldn’t make it a minute down the road before being killed. “You need to fly me back to Baldoria.”
“That I can’t do,” he said nonchalantly. “However, I’m sure you have a hundred questions for me. Now that you’re awake and not crying, ask away.”
Asshole,I thought but didn’t say aloud. My eyes focused on the glint of his fangs when he smiled. He could kill and drain me of my blood in a second, and it would be no skin off his back.
“More like a thousand questions,” I said, eyeing him carefully as I walked over to the gray, suede armchair in the corner of the room. “I’ll start with the obvious. Why did you bring me here? Where is my mom? Am I to be a blood bag, or instead forced to fulfill your magical wishes? Because you’re out of luck; I’m a terrible sorceress.” As I said the words, I wished I hadn’t, but it was best he found out now instead of trying to make me use them and seeing what a failure I was.
He leaned back, kicking one leg up against the wall. “You were in danger, so I decided to save your life. That’s why I brought you here.”
I arched an eyebrow. “You could have, I don’t know, taken me somewhere else if that’s true. Not here, into the heart of the most dangerous place in the world.” I didn’t believe a word he was saying, but if he wanted to lie to me for whatever reason, then he had to at least make it good.
“Where would you suggest I’d taken you?” He ran his fingers through his thick hair, losing them for a moment in the dark brown. “Back to your house, where the order was looking for you? Or return you to the guild with your fallen friends?”
The thought of everyone I’d come to know over the years roiled my stomach and sent an ache to the back of my throat. “How did they find out about me?”
“There’s an order called Nightshade. They want to keep the vampire blood pure.”He drewin a deep breath and slowly released it before leaning forward. “They believe all vampires should be made.”
“So they don’t like the soul vampires?” I deduced as I knew they had demon blood in their veins.
“No, but neither do I.”
On that, we both agreed. Although, I felt that way about all of them. “What does that have to do with me?”
“That’s not the only thing they care about,” he said, his tone thick with a tension that felt as if it might snap at any moment.
A shiver danced down my spine as the cold air reached through my dressing gown, chilling my bones.
“You’re cold,” he said.
I repressed the urge to throw back a snarky remark. He was a vampire and not a normal guy, no matter how much he came across as one.
The muscles under his black shirt bulged when he moved toward the door. Before I could catch my breath, he was gone. Rubbing my forearm, I turned my attention to the ceiling, shivering against the cold air circling the room. I whipped my head around at a scuff against the floor, seeing Sebastian returned with a thick, red throw in his arms. “Take this.” He walked toward me, and I couldn’t help but flinch, so he threw it the rest of the way. I couldn’t bring myself to say thanks, considering, but hugged the material around me nonetheless.
He continued, this time sitting on the side of the bed. “How much do you know about your father?”
I stiffened. “Nothing, really.”
“Interesting.”
“Why?” I played with my promise ring. “All I really care about is my mom,” I admitted. “She’s here, somewhere in Sanmorte, and I want to know where.”
“I don’t know, but as she’s a sorceress, you can assume she’s alive.”
A lump formed in my throat. I had to find her, because even if they hadn’t killed her, she would be a prisoner. I imagined her, scared, cold, with bite marks on her neck.
“About your father,” he said, snapping me away from my awful daydream. “Your mother wouldn’t want you getting curious if you knew the truth, which is why she probably didn’t tell you. Although I am surprised you know nothing at all.”
“What is it you know?”
He licked his lips. “He’s a vampire.”
