All Chapters of BETRAYED BY HER BLOOD, CLAIMED BY THE NIGHT: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

“By the Fangs,” he muttered, not quite under his breath."What's your say, Somito?" Nomo sneered, wrapping an arm around Sofia's waist to draw her close as he turned to face the other man, "Are we able to set our differences aside for a short while longer? A friend of yours looks like he could use your help."The "his companion" bit put Sofia on edge a bit, but not nearly enough to correct him and spoil what he had in mind for this meeting. It also warmed and tingled her in a much more innocent way, a problem that she could work on later on.Somito exhaled a breath, shaking his head even though he appeared to be more troubled by his own thinking than in disagreement with Nomo's proposal. "Well, yeah, I guess we always were good at sharing, huh? When it came to surviving, of course."Sofia pulled her lower lip into her mouth, her fang pressing hard enough to hurt. Oh, she lusted after them both. And both together was better than either one separately, and she had not begun to explore t

Sofia Quispe’ POVOf all the things Sofia had gotten herself into in the past few months—from escaping from the Covenant, learning about her Dhampir heritage, and the shattered Blood Union—engaging in a threesome with her bar boss and her battle trainer was most certainly not on the list.And yet, despite having a hard time walking right after, she could not help but feel that she did not regret it—not in the least.Maintaining a straight face in the presence of Pella the next evening at The Crimson Chalice posed a different challenge.She had her phone buzzing in pocket during the middle of a shift, and Sofia had not recognized the number, so she muted it. However, Zilo did not have the new number, although that did not prevent the other offers from the Abribi Covenant District.“Hello?” When Sofia got a minute by herself in the back, she checked her phone and noticed the same number was calling her another half-dozen times. damn, these debt collectors were being aggressive. She

“Yet, the accounts of the humans who observed your unstable power outbreak are already spreading within the underworld. It will not be long before news of the Dhampir with the mark of Aron Quispe reaches the entire aristocracy,” stated Phuwin.“I just don't understand why the thing that I am puts me in any more danger than the rest of the Blooded out there in this city,” Sofia argued. “I, for one, don't even know what my human side is about.”She'd figured her Dhampir characteristics finally being visible would put an end to it, but instead, it raised even more than it answered."Which is exactly why it endangers you. It makes you. a freak, a genetic aberration: Rare Blood," said Phuwin. "The Feral Vampires that recognized you at the bar would have already wanted you as a useful asset for your connection to me. And then, when you revealed what you are. Let's just say you could be a useful asset for many Houses other than mine. And definitely not people you want to attract your at

SOFIA QUISPE“It's been ten minutes,” Sofia said, pushing away from the table.Zack yanked her wrist, and Sofia froze. It took all her control not to knock him on his ass right there in the coffee shop. If it wasn't for the fact that there were mortal people in there who she did not have a death wish to get kicked out of, she would have. It would have been more than he was paying for, since she was sure he did not know that she’d been in combat training the last couple of months under a former hunter.“We’re not done here, Dhampir,” he said in a low voice that she once would have found menacing, or attractive. Possibly both. But now it was just an expression of Dhampir anger, and when she yanked her hand back from his, he looked taken aback by how strong she was.“What do you want from me that you haven’t already taken?” Sofia demanded, her voice sinking until it was hardly more than a hiss.She crossed her arms and hugged her own arms tightly around her body—a reflex against the chil

“Sometimes,” he replied. “It is a good spot for a vampire to get his thoughts together, and there is no room to run in the concrete boundaries of the city.”"No," Sofia sighed. One of the things she had managed to retain from the first night of her burst of power was how cage-like the concrete jungle had felt to her refined senses. Even the suburbs could not compare to the openness she had experienced before; those, too, seemed crowded. "There really isn't.""Come on, it's this way," he said, nodding down a primitive and hidden pathway branching off from the main walking path. It wasn’t even paved; if it hadn’t been for the small gap between the dead, ancient trees, Sofia might have missed it."What is that?" she asked. "It does not look stable or safe for a hike."He rolled his eyes in that familiar aristocratic impatience and walked onto the hard trail, leaving Sofia no choice but to trail after him. She kept her cautious eye on the trail and on the thick thorns and growth below.“A