Mercy of These Bones

Four years ago, Mathias Larsen broke siring laws to save a lover’s life. Four months ago, that lover turned on him, leaving him for dead. Now Mathias has followed her path of death to Las Vegas, straight to the last vampire who wants to see him: his sire. The man he left for a woman who stabbed him in the back. Edmund has found love again with a nightclub owner, the very human Darby Bell. He doesn’t want to believe Mathias’s warnings, but a murder that hits too close to home gives him no choice. While he struggles to keep Mathias and Darby safe, emotions run high as old love collides with new. But the clock is ticking. The vampire Assembly is coming to town, the local police are alerted to Mathias’s nocturnal activities, and passions are flaring high. Time is running out. By the time death strikes again, all bets are off.

Vivien Dean · Urban

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98 Chs

Chapter 96

“I trust Mathias with my life,” Darby said. “I offered myself to him when he wouldn’t feed otherwise. When he needed it. And I was never in any danger of dying, or anything else, the entire time.”

Thabo shook his head. “Edmund has put you up to this.”

“No,” she asserted. “I’m pretty sure Edmund would’ve wanted me to keep my mouth shut. I might love him, but I care about Mathias, too. And I can’t stand back and do nothing when I know you’re wrong about him.”

Her announcement surprised Mathias as much as it did the other vampires, and another round of murmurs spread throughout the room. Thabo glanced at Edmund, his eyes dark with deliberation, before he nodded once.

“Then Mathias needs to prove to us that he realizes the error of his ways.” He held his hand out, and the mustached vampire Edmund didn’t recognize hastened to open a long flat box that sat on the coffee table. He extracted a polished stake and rose to hand it to Thabo. “He must destroy what he created.”

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