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55. That's My Girl
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2026-10-14 22:18:04
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The Vampire King's Mate 57. Old Friend
DANIEL POVI waited until sundown.My father never came out of his study before dark. I had learned that without anybody teaching me, the way you learn which stairs creak. During the day, the heavy curtains stayed drawn and the door stayed locked. At night, the whole house woke up around him.I had slept eleven hours. I had showered, shaved, eaten two sandwiches and a banana, and thrown every cigarette from my pocket into the kitchen trash. My hands had stopped shaking. I stood outside the study with my knuckles still scabbed from the ring and I thought, If I don't do it now, I never will.The last time I had stood at this door, I was nine years old.I remembered it with a clarity that made my stomach hurt. I had come home from school with a gold star on my math test, the very first one I had ever earned, and a drawing of a wolf that my teacher had pinned to the board. The housekeeper had said, "Your father's in his study, Mr. Daniel," in a voice that sounded like a warning. I had wal
The Vampire King's Mate 56. No Letters
IVORY POVThe Head Guardian came to our house at nine o'clock that night.I knew something was wrong because Lia dropped a plate. It broke in the kitchen with a loud crack, and Samantha, who never opened her eyes before noon, sat up in her chair and said, "Oh no."I was on the landing with my notebook when I heard the knock. It wasn't a polite knock. Nobody knocked politely on our door, I was beginning to notice. But this one carried weight.Mom opened it herself.The Head Guardian stood on the porch in her dark coat, alone. No Evelyn. No guards. The porch light threw long, sharp shadows across her face."May I come in, Rose?""Of course. It is your territory.""It is," said the Head Guardian, and stepped inside.I crept down three stairs and sat very still on the fourth, where the banister hid me. Lia and Gabriel were nowhere to be seen. They had vanished into the kitchen like smoke.The two women faced each other in the front hall. For a long moment neither one spoke."Your daughter
The Vampire King's Mate 55. That's My Girl
IVORY POVThe infirmary nurse wrapped my ribs and told me I had a hairline fracture and that it would heal in a day or two."A day or two?" I said. "That's... not how bones work."She smiled like I'd said something sweet. "Not for humans."I didn't know what to do with that. So I walked out of the infirmary and kept walking, past the gates, past the training field, all the way down the hill to the lake. It was getting dark. The water was a sheet of dark glass, with a few silver ribbons of moonlight floating on top.I sat down on a flat rock at the edge, tucked my knees under my chin, and, finally, cried.It wasn't a pretty cry. It was the loud, ugly kind that took my whole body and shook it. I cried because my ribs hurt. I cried because Evelyn's friends had laughed. I cried because the pack looked at me like I was a coin they hadn't decided whether to spend. And I cried because nobody on this entire hill knew that on the night of my prom, a boy with dark blue eyes had held my face in
The Vampire King's Mate 54. Blood And Rain
DANIEL POVThe fight club met under a closed tire shop on the east side, and I knew the password before I even reached the door."Blood and rain," I said.The bouncer, a mountain of a man named Tiny, who had never once been tiny, looked me up and down. "Haven't seen you since you put Demon in the hospital.""Is he fighting tonight?""Heard he's been asking for you." Tiny stepped aside. "Try not to kill him. Paperwork's a pain."The basement was packed. Cigarette smoke hung under the flickering lamps, and a hundred people were packed into a ring of folding chairs and milk crates, yelling at a pair of shirtless men in the middle. The air was loud and thick and hot, and every inch of it tasted like adrenaline.This was my therapy. It always had been. Every time the world got too heavy, I came down here and found someone who wanted to hit me, and I let him. And then I hit back, until my head was quiet."Hey, you came!"Blake shoved through the crowd with a plastic cup in each hand, big an
The Vampire King's Mate 53. About My Ribs
IVORY POVCombat class was held in a long stone hall with sand on the floor and a wooden gallery running around the walls. It smelled like sweat and old blood. I knew that last part wasn't my imagination, because the first time I walked in, my stomach turned over, and a boy next to me whispered, "Yeah. You get used to it."I did not get used to it.Thirty cadets stood in two rows along the wall, stretching, joking, cracking their knuckles. Instructor Brandt, a squat, scarred woman with a voice like gravel in a bucket, paced in front of us with her hands behind her back."Today we spar," she barked. "Pairs. Light contact. No claws. No fangs. If I see blood, you scrub this floor on your knees."Groans. Somebody laughed. I tried to shrink behind a tall boy with a shaved head."Excuse me, Instructor."I knew the voice before I turned. Evelyn had stepped out of the line, lovely and calm in her training clothes, her black hair in a high ponytail. Her two friends flanked her like bookends."
The Vampire King's Mate 52. They Are Perfect
DANIEL POVThe bell over the door of Clover's Diner jingled when I came in, and every ghost I'd been outrunning for three days sat up and looked at me.It was a small place on a corner, with red vinyl booths and a jukebox that hadn't worked since 1998. It smelled like fries and coffee and the sweet, burnt edge of syrup. I knew every inch of it. I had sat in that third booth on the left for hours last winter, pretending to do homework while Ivory carried plates past me with her ponytail swinging, and I had pretended not to watch.There was a new girl behind the counter. She was wearing Ivory's apron.I stood just inside the doorway and I didn't breathe."Daniel Connor." A big man in a grease-stained shirt came out of the kitchen wiping his hands on a towel. Mr. Clover had a face like a bulldog and a heart he tried very hard to hide. "Well. Haven't seen you since the night those boys tore my window out.""I paid for the window.""You did. Overpaid, actually. I'm still sitting on that ch
The Vampire King's Mate 8. Skipped school
IVORY'S POV We had been walking for thirty minutes now. Through cracked pavements and across the dry school field, then down a shaded path I didn’t even know existed. I hadn’t said much—just followed in silence like some blindfolded kitten. But now my feet were aching, my bag strap had started to
The Vampire King's Mate 7. Strange
IVORY'S POV I just wished they’d all let me be. With trembling hands, I dusted myself off, the remnants of the apple fritter crushed beneath my shoes, my broken glasses tucked into my pocket like a badge of survival. My fingers grazed the fresh bruise swelling near my cheekbone, and I hissed quiet
The Vampire King's Mate 6. Threatened
Damon’s POV Thirty minutes later, I arrived home, only to find Dad on the porch, puffing at his old pipe like he was trying to smoke away the past. "Why did you come back so late?" he asked without turning, his eyes lost in the distance. "Like you care," I muttered under my breath, heading straig
The Vampire King's Mate 5. Angry
IVORY’S POV Detention? No, no, no. That word echoed in my head like a curse. I couldn’t afford it. Not with my grades hanging by a thread and my self-esteem already six feet under. What did I ever do to deserve this? The ride home was quiet—eerily so. The taxi driver didn’t speak, and I didn’t da
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