Page 72 of The Nightblood Prince

One of the vampires charged at me, moving so fast his body became an indistinguishable blur, and knocked me off Beifeng. Hands came for my throat, and I let out a scream when I saw his face.

As monstrous as the demons of my nightmares. Bone-white skin and eyes that were burning red, dark veins like an intricate embroidery covering his face. And his teeth?

They were not the teeth of a human.

“Fei!” someone cried in the background. “Don’t hurt her! I’ll go with you! I’ll do whatever you want! Just don’t hurt her!”

Run, you idiot!I would have screamed if I didn’t have a demon’s claw around my throat. When the vampire’s fangs fell on my throat, I had only one thought in mind: I’ve come too far to die like this.

Without thinking, I stabbed the silver tip of Siwang’s bow into the vampire’s eye, and the monster let out an earsplitting scream.

I tasted ash in my mouth, smelled the scent of burning flesh.

“Fei!”

Siwang.

When another vampire charged at me, I barely had time to react. I tried to stab him with the bow the way I’d done the last time, but he was too fast.

A sword plunged into my chest.

“Stop!” A voice broke the chaos. Deep and rumbling, like thunder cutting through a storm.

Overwhelmed by the disarray, I had failed to notice the man standing at the edge of the battle, clad in silvery white, a color too pure to exist among the gruesome hues of blood and death.

While everyone else was crusted by blood, he alone was pristine.

Etherealwas the first word that came to mind.

“We meet again.” The wind carried his voice to me.

As I fell to the ground, gasping for air, I saw him smile.

The dimples flashed.

Lan Yexue.The captive prince who was no longer a captive.

Please, don’t let me die,I thought as a blaze of fireworks lit up the twilight sky and something akin to fear flashed across the monsters’ faces.

They weren’t invincible.

Fire.

They are weakened by sunlight,Siwang had said.

We can still win this war….

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Fire…

“Can you save her?” A furious tone, yet muffled and quiet, as if someone were screaming from under water.

Light.

“I…”

They are not invincible….

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