Page 184 of Blood Day

If they chose to fuck me, it would break my bond with Cedric.

Uprooting and killing my link to him.

My last petal of hope.

I swallowed.

Cedric…His name echoed within the vacant cavern of my mind.Please don’t leave me like this.

Yet as the night drew on, it became very clear that he had every intention of maintaining the wall between us. I tried to pick at it, to find some way through, but he was too strong. Too ancient. Toomasterful.

The vampires led us to our quarters for the day—a large room filled with bunk beds. I was assigned to a top bed with Six beneath me.

Then the lights went out, painting the room in acute darkness.

“Sleep” was the only command.

I didn’t obey it. I doubted many of us did. Not with this foreign atmosphere and the very real threats lingering just outside the door.

When they came for us, it would be to march us to Blood Day.

The final ceremony that marked our graduation from hell and welcomed us into a lifetime of servitude.

Will I go to the moon chase? The harems? Do Khalid and Cedric have a plan?

I wanted to ask Emine. However, I hadn’t seen her in the showers or the locker area. I hadn’t seen her at all.

And I was beginning to wonder if she’d made it this far.

Or if something else had happened.

Something that had made Cedric cut me off for good.

I wish you would talk to me,I thought, drowsy from my lack of sleep and the long day of travel without food. Theyhadn’t bothered to give us dinner. And the only water we’d been provided was the icy spikes from the showerheads. I’d sipped from it sparingly, uncertain of the source.

Tomorrow is a new day.

A deadly one.

Will you be there, Cedric?

Or have you left me to walk this path alone?

Chapter 38

Lily

Thump,thump.

The beat of my heart rang in my ears.

Thump, thump.

A steady rhythm.

Thump, thump.

One I worked hard to control.