Page 46 of Cruelly Bitten
They were clearly starving. Yet they were being fed by two others holding human sacrifices up for them to devour.
“What the…?” I muttered into my hand. “Why?Why?” And who were these two obviously insatiable men?
A hint of script on the wall told me this was from the same room as before, suggesting that pile of corpses was their doing. However, they didn’t appear to be satiated at all. They were half-mad with starvation. I could see it in their eyes, the way they were glowing with hints of insanity as they bit into the necks of their new victims.
I couldn’t hear anything, but I suspected they were growling like untamed beasts.
And the vampires feeding them… were…smirking?
They were amused by the sight.
But why? What is this? Who are they?
I tried to study their features, their gray skin and long white hair unfamiliar and decidedly inhuman. They had their hands free, allowing them to better grip their victims. Their nails resembled talons, overgrown and unkempt. Although, they almost appeared brittle.
Actually, most of their appearance seemed fragile in nature. Like they were too weak to truly be alive.
Like mummies, I thought, my brow crinkling and then flying upward.Like. Mummies.
“No,” I whispered as an unsettling realization disturbed my mind. “No way. No fucking way.”
Except the proof of it was on the screen with eyelashes that resembled ash, irises that lacked pigmentation, and skin that had clearly not seen the sun or any other element for quite some time.
“Ancients,” I breathed.
We were in Vatican City.No, we’re beneath it… where the Blessed Ones rest.
Blessed Ones who could only be awakened by a ritual.
A ritual that required royal blood to be activated.
And there was one vampire whose blood could be used to wake every Blessed One in existence.
The eldest of vampire kind.
Cam.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
IZZY
Isthat why this is happening? Why Lilith brainwashed Cam into believing he’s the Liege? To make him cooperate with this madness?
But why am I here? What purpose am I meant to serve?
And why are they feeding humans to the Blessed Ones?
Blessed Ones didn’t drink blood. They were immortal without having to imbibe mortal essences. All vampires knew that. Yet these two were devouring these humans like food.
What. The. Fuck?
I searched for a way to zoom in on the camera feed, wanting to see if I could pinpoint any defining traits that would identify these poor souls.
There were twenty Blessed Ones in existence.
All of them were men.
And they would all resemble these mummified states after being awoken from rest.
