Vampire Apocalypse #2 Cataylst Read Online Free Page A

Kahli.
    A grin spread across Reggie’s lips, slowly
stretching from one corner of his mouth to the other. He didn’t
realize it, but now that he saw, he didn’t know how he missed it.
“Tell me, how is her blood? Perhaps it’s not as pure as we thought?
I mean, look at the mirror. Your face is still there when you
should be reflectionless by now.”
    Sophia was always easy to goad. She stopped
and turned toward him slowly. Reginald knew he plucked the right
strings. “Be careful, brother. You do not want to fight me
today.”
    “I have no wish to fight with you, either,”
Reginald said. Sophia’s eyes bore into him. If she could make him
burst into flames, she would have. “I was merely pointing out that
your prized-possession seems to be rather lackluster,” he pressed
his hand to his chest, “which is dreadfully embarrassing with how
she was flaunted at the All Hallow’s Eve party. Every Regent saw
and heard you brag about her, the dirty wild thing.” He shivered as
he thought about it. Kahli was disgusting, dripping with filth and
savage beyond comprehension. She acted more like a beast, than a
girl.
    Sophia’s gaze narrowed, her hands tightening
their grip on the dais. “She is what I thought she was. What you
told me she was—wild—pure. Do you think we should just tap her and
drink goblets of her blood? Are you a fool? Do you know how potent
pure blood is? What it does compared to the anemic spawn we’ve been
breeding?” The only reason she offered this information was to
prove she was right, that pure blood was hers and not his. That the
blood was restoring her former power and he wouldn’t have a
drop.
    Reginald hadn’t realized what was wrong with
the girl. He figured that young William had issues restraining her,
or something ridiculous. But this, this was much better. “How
dreadful,” he said with pity in his voice. “To have something that
could change everything so easily and yet, not be able to take that
power. It must be awful.” He clucked his tongue and shook his head,
barely hiding the satisfied smile that kept breaking across his
lips. “I had no idea.”
    “You never have any idea,” she snapped.
Motioning for her servant, Sophia said to her, “Fetch the wild girl
for a tasting. Promptly.” After the servant left, Sophia turned
toward her brother with a wicked gleam in her eye. “Never say that
I was unkind to you, Reginald. I’ll let you taste a drop and you
can see how strong a stomach is needed to drink from her. It’s not
what you think, either.” The smug expression fell from his face.
“It’s not a matter of swallowing it. It’s a matter of our weakened
bodies being able to metabolize her blood.”
    Reginald was excited and apprehensive.
Leaning back, he slouched in his chair trying to hide it. “What’s
the worst that it could do?”
    Sophia gave a wolfish grin, “Wait and see for
yourself.” When the servant reentered without Will, Sophia was
irritated. “Well?” Sophia snapped.
    The servant didn’t look her in the eye.
Instead she bowed her head and stared at the floor. “Neither of
them is to be found. I’ve looked and asked. The last person to see
the girl was the King.”
    Sophia rose slowly, utterly calm. Reginald
shrunk away from her, knowing exactly how much rage just exploded
in her system. Every inch of Sophia’s body would twitch any second.
She would kill without a second thought, without reason.
    Reginald sat very still, managing to stay
just out of her line of sight. Sophia stepped toward the trembling
servant and before Reginald could blink, a severed head rolled
across the floor. No one moved. No one breathed. The Queen crossed
the room, power flowing from her in a deadly wave, killing anyone
within reach. A bloody path trailed in her wake. Before he was
remembered, Reginald slipped from the chair and made his way out of
the palace. If the King took what wasn’t his, then Reginald was not
safe. He cursed himself for not returning