Page 23 of Grave Revelations (Prophecies of Angels and Demons #3)

Chapter 22

Sophia

As Rebecca leaned into her, head drooping against Sohpia’s shoulder, a pulsing vein at her neck sang to her.

“He’s gone,” Rebecca breathed.

Sophia tried to focus on the words, tried to comfort her friend, but the drops of essence she’d pulled from Rebecca’s demon had only put a dent in the hunger overwhelming her. It was a chant on repeat : feed, feed, feed. It consumed her.

She knew she should be worried about Elizabeth’s army, her sisters, and death so close to her home, but her mind was a dagger sharpened on the edge of one point.

Feed.

It happened too fast, even for Sophia. She struck, sinking her teeth into Rebecca’s tender flesh. The canines along her upper lip elongated, slicing through skin, and she pulled in a long drag of blood, siphoning Rebecca’s essence with it as she pushed her to the ground, sinking with her.

It was sweet. Untainted. Like he’d said. Rebecca squirmed under her hold—fought to free herself—but she was no match for Sohpia’s new strength. With each intake of the vital fluid, a fog cleared.

Wrong, this is wrong . Sophia ripped her mouth from her friend’s throat, stumbling back .

“What have I done?” She wiped her mouth, the evidence of her betrayal staining the back of her arm.

Rebecca cupped her hand to her neck, staring up with so much hurt and disbelief that Sophia felt it at the core of her being.

“Rebecca, I—” she choked on the words, standing, preparing to run.

Rebecca’s face changed; betrayal replaced by fear. “Don’t go.”

Sophia hesitated. The witch was powerful. Was it a trap? Would she retaliate? Either way, she deserved it. Sophia had been with them for less than an hour and had attempted to suck the life from them both.

She reached for the pearls that had been lost to her during those nights underground before she’d been turned, surrounded by screams and moans and sounds of dying people.

In her delirious state, she’d assumed it had only been her and her coven in that dark cave. But now, her mind was clear for the first time in days, and she knew the truth.

“I know where all the people are.”