Semua Bab Sold To A Vampire : Bab 41 - Bab 50

RUBY The body was dragged out of the water like a discarded doll. Bites. Deep ones. The kind that look like a vampire’s work. Her skin was the color of old wax, cold and bloodless. She’d been dead for hours before they dumped her.“Get the security footage,” the manager snapped, voice low and hard. “No one leaves this floor until we find who did it.”I clung to Zyren’s arm the way a child clutches a parent in the dark. He kept telling me it would be fine. The words felt thin.Then the need hit—sudden, urgent. I told him I had to use the restroom. He moved to follow. I stopped him. “I’ll be quick.” I almost believed it.Our room was already sealed. Staff restroom was the only option. The hallway felt longer than it should have. Every shadow seemed to lean toward me. I kept looking back, certain something was about to close the distance and take my throat.I found the door. Pushed inside. The air changed. Thick. Metallic. The exact scent that rises off Zyren when the hunger takes him—b

RUBY…I woke with a start, jolted out of sleep by a sound I wasn’t used to.When I opened my eyes, I found Joel crouched over Zyren, growling at him while he slept.Joel stopped the moment he noticed me watching. “Sorry for waking you up,” he whispered. “Go back to sleep. Pretend I’m not here.”“But—”“Shhh. Go to sleep, Ruby.”He went right back to growling at Zyren. The next thing I heard was a smack — I couldn’t tell where it landed, but a second later Joel let out a yelp, and I understood: Zyren had slapped him in his sleep. Whether he genuinely thought Joel was a mosquito or knew exactly what he was doing and just kept his eyes shut, I couldn’t say.“What the hell?!” Joel cried, storming out of the room. I caught a glimpse of the door from where I lay beside Zyren, and moments later Joel was back — holding a bucket. Water, from the look of it.I scrambled out of bed immediately. Thank god I was still in my pajamas. This guy really was something else — what if I’d been naked? Did

ZYREN..**Hun, what the hell is going on here? Why do I feel very weak and tired? I could barely stand up on feet.“Kai? Ruby? Anyone?”No answer came.How the hell did I end up here — naked? “What the fuck is going on?” My own voice barely carried, thin and useless in my throat.The last thing I remembered clearly was holding Ruby, promising her I’d find her father. Then Kai had come — something wrong with my twin sister — and I’d left to deal with it. After that, everything blurred.I forced myself to focus, taking in my surroundings properly. My sister’s room. I recognized it even through the haze.Then the door opened, and three women walked in.My twin sister. Ruby’s stepsister. Isolde — my supposed fiancée.I tried to move, tried to speak. Nothing. My body wouldn’t obey me.What the hell are they planning?“Are you sure he’s weak?” Ruby’s stepsister asked, circling closer.“I’m a hundred percent sure,” my sister answered. “No matter how powerful a vampire is, wolfsbane poison w

I woke in the middle of the night, exhausted, my body still weak in a way that felt wrong for a pureblood. I reached across the bed for Ruby out of instinct — and found nothing but cold sheets. I forced myself upright, staggering out of the room on legs that barely held me, and found Kai and Joel stepping out of one of the guest rooms. "Boss — are you okay?" Kai rushed toward me, but I shoved past him, focusing on Joel instead. "When did you get here?" I didn't wait for an answer before rounding on Kai. "Have you seen Ruby? I've been looking for her since I woke up and she wasn't beside me." Something in their faces stopped me cold. "Why do you both look like you're standing at a funeral?" "Boss... she's—" Kai started, then stopped, unable to finish. "What the hell are you saying?" My mind scrambled for something, anything, to make sense of it. "We came back from our date together. We were fine." A beat. "Did I do something? Did she leave because of something I did?" I stop

ZYREN I walked down into the den. Isolde reached for the bars the moment she saw me, rattling them to get my attention, but I walked straight past her without a glance, heading for the cell where Cecilia was held. She looked wrecked — exhausted, her face swollen like she'd been beaten through the night. I felt nothing looking at her. Not pity, not concern. Nothing. "I was told you wanted to talk to me." I stopped in front of the bars. "So talk. Before I change my mind." I stepped into the cell, letting the door swing shut behind me. "You should know exactly why you're still breathing right now," I said, voice low. "It's not mercy. It's Ruby. The only reason you're alive is because of whatever thin thread connects you to her — so don't waste it." "I'll only talk on one condition," she said. I laughed, short and humorless. "A condition? You think you're in any position to negotiate? Look around you. You're in my den. I could let my men do whatever they want with you and then still