A Dark Hunger (5 page)

Riyzan knew
Shade was holding in his anger—he could feel currents of power wash
over his skin, causing his hair to stand on end. “Everything
okay?”

Shade forced a
smile. “The usual. Layla needs me.”

Riyzan nodded.
“We’ll come round soon.” He glanced at Surquyn. “I need to look
after Surquyn first.”

Shade made a
small sound, drawing Riyzan’s attention back to him. He closed his
eyes and groaned. “I better be quick. If I can read her emotions
well, Nikalye is back and has brought trouble with him.”

Riyzan chuckled
when Shade opened his eyes and they flashed with a different kind
of anger. “Go easy on him, he has been through much.”

Shade grunted,
pressed his lips together and clenched his hands into fists as his
power spiked.

“You better get
going before my daughter puts you on your knees before you can
reach her.”

Darkness
swirled around Shade instantly, taking him from the room.

Riyzan turned
to Surquyn and stroked her cheek lovingly. He was glad he had his
woman back safely. “I’m never letting you out of my sight,” he
whispered.

Surquyn pressed
herself against him and ran her lips along his jaw. “You promise?”
she whispered seductively in his ear.

He chuckled and
held her tight against him. “Let’s go home.”

Chapter
Eight

Riyzan used his
helicopter to get them back to their wrecked home, choosing to go
there to collect anything that hadn’t been destroyed in the raid.
Surquyn didn’t want to live in a home filled with bad memories. She
wanted to be close to her family, wanted to start anew.

Riyzan planned
to give her that. Planned to give her anything she desired.

When they
walked in the mountain, they found a human woman standing in the
middle of their living room, peering down the hole Riyzan had
created.

Surquyn
pounced.

Seeing the
human raise her hands quickly, Riyzan grabbed Surquyn and pulled
her back against his body, holding her tight. “Wait,” he whispered.
He turned his attention to the woman. “You better have a good
reason as to why you are in our home.”

“I…there’s a
war coming. The humans, they’ve regrouped. We’re all in
danger.”

“We know this
already. Your information is useless to us,” Surquyn hissed.

“But…but
they’re stronger…they have…I’ve seen…
things
.”

“How are you
still alive if you have information on the humans?” Riyzan asked.
He knew all too well what happened to anyone who tried to walk away
from the humans. It had gotten Shade into a lot of trouble, and had
lost him his mother and Layla.

“I went
searching for my husband when he went missing. I heard…rumours.
They told me vampires had taken him and killed him. I was angry
and—” The woman swallowed loudly. “I did terrible things, hunted
and killed your kind.” The woman twisted her hands together, tears
filling her eyes.

“What changed
your mind?” Surquyn asked. Anger still filled her, but she spoke
calmly, obviously sensing the emotional breakdown within the woman
that Riyzan had sensed.

“I found out
the truth. I found out what the humans were doing. How they
tortured my husband and made him into a…a Mutated.”

“Who is your
husband?”

“His name is
Riley.”

Riyzan and
Surquyn exchanged a glance. The human shook her head, closed her
eyes and rubbed them. It was obvious that she wasn’t aware that her
husband wasn’t the kind of Mutation she thought him to be.

She wiped at
her eyes with shaking hands. “Listen, the humans, they have weapons
the military would kill for—”

“So we’ve
seen,” Surquyn replied dryly.

“What they
don’t realise is who’s controlling them,” the woman continued as
though Surquyn hadn’t interrupted her. “They’re taking a blind
order and I don’t want any innocent people getting killed because
of it.”

“So you have
been with the humans long enough to find out this information,
including who has been behind everything?” Riyzan asked. He was
surprised a delicate human such as herself could survive within the
ranks of vampire hunters. There weren’t many females among them
when they had all been wiped out.
How had she survived? How did
she escape without getting caught?

How did she
slip out of Layla’s hands when she destroyed everything they
created?

The human
nodded quickly, twisting her fingers together. “I…I’ve been…was
there for…six years. The power they had…I couldn’t get out! They
were going to turn me into one of those monsters.”

“So how did you
escape?” Surquyn asked, voicing aloud the words Riyzan had
thought.

“I took my
chance when Ramliez tortured his own son and his wife. I just…I
tried to help them but I knew they would make me into a monster and
I didn’t want to be responsible for the lives I took.”

“So who is
controlling the humans?” Riyzan asked.

The human
stayed silent—her eyes wide and her hands shaking as she clutched
them together and breathed heavily.

Riyzan grabbed
her around the throat and squeezed. “Who?”

“Your
daughter!” the human gasped out.

Riyzan narrowed
his eyes, fighting to squeeze the life from the woman. “Layla would
never do anything like that. The humans were searching for
her.”

The woman
swallowed.

When she spoke,
Riyzan sensed no lies within her words.

“I’m not
talking about Layla.”

About the Author

I’m a
talkative, hyperactive writer of Erotic Vampire Paranormal Romance
books. I love both reading and writing, and I love listening to
loud rock/hardcore music. I was born in Devon, Plymouth in 1991. I
didn’t stay there for long and moved to Lincoln. I wasn’t always a
lover of books, I was more an animal person then. I went to
University of Lincoln, Riseholme College, where I studied an animal
course for two years. It was only when I saw J.K Rowling’s, Harry
Potter books that I start reading. Over the years, I read more
books, including Twilight and House of Night and soon I became a
huge lover of books. I love reading so much, and all the books that
I’ve read have inspired to start writing my own, though reading
vampire books did not inspire me to write vampire books myself, my
dreams did that for me. I own more than a hundred books, mainly
vampires, and read over double. I plan to have my very own library
of books that I love and will continue to read repeatedly, without
getting bored. I’m a true believer of all things supernatural, and
hope that one day, I’ll have the pleasure of meeting one. I live in
the middle of nowhere with my partner, Reece and my little zoo
which consists of an army of hamsters, a hyperactive chinchilla
called Hektor, and four guinea pigs. We hope in the near future
that we can get an army of guinea pigs, chinchillas to add to the
family. Along with a goat.