Chapter 7Their gazes met across the vast hall, and Caelum felt the world narrow to that single point of connection. The vampire's lips curved in the barest suggestion of a smile, cold and predatory and promising. Caelum stared back with all the hatred he could summon, letting it burn in his green eyes like emerald fire."Well, well," the vampire said, his cultured voice carrying easily across the distance. "What fire burns in this one."The vampire's tongue darted out, just the tip, to wet his lower lip. The gesture was brief and unconscious, but Caelum saw it. Saw the way those silver eyes darkened, pupils dilating slightly as they traced the line of his throat, the curve of his jaw."Commander Drayke," Queen Ysoria's voice cut through the tension like a blade. "How good of you to join us."Monster. The word rang through Caelum's mind, but it carried less conviction than it should have.…Several months earlier...General Velis Drayke stood cloaked in the shadows of Ashan's Great Ca
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