His strength is waning, but nothing will stop him when she’s so close. He knows its two ends are embedded at least three feet down. With both hands he clenches the metal biting into his neck, vaguely remembering the day the thick, long pin was hammered into place. He doesn’t have time to disbelieve what he’s accomplished. His yell turns to a choking cough as he rips two bonds free. Every muscle in his weakened body works in concert, striving to do what he’s never been able to for an eternity before. One arm strains against its bonds until the thick metal cuts into his skin.

At this moment, she lingers somewhere above. The one woman he’d searched for without cease for a thousand years-up until the day of his capture. But now he has scented her, his mate, the one woman made for him alone. Over the centuries, he has sometimes heard uncanny new things in the streets above, occasionally smelled Paris changing seasons.

His existence is to burn to death repeatedly, only to have his dogged immortality revive him again.ĭetailed fantasies of retribution have gotten him this far nursing the rage in his heart is all he has. Here he waits and suffers, offered to a column of fire that may weaken but is never-ending-never-ending, just like his life. Before him-an opening into hell that spews fire. He stands chained against a rock, pinned at two places on each limb and once around his neck. Long ago-and who knows how much time has toiled past-the Vampire Horde trapped him in these catacombs deep beneath Paris. His fire because he’s fed it for centuries with his destroyed body and decaying mind. In a recess of his mind still capable of rational thought, he believes this. Sometimes the fire that licks the skin from his bones dies down. “My ideal man? He’d have to be considerate, easygoing, and well-mannered.Ībove all, he’d need to treat me like a queen.”

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