Chapter 34
De Vivar had roused the next evening to find a slim cylinder hanging from his neck. He’d seen Terese wearing something similar, and knew it contained the soil of his home. She must care a great deal for him to make the journey there.
But hunger gnawed at his gut, and he had no time to delight in that realization. He went out to feed for the first time. Terese had requested he wait for her, but she was simply a woman, and now that he was a vampyre, he was her superior in every way. He came across a maid servant, and his nostrils flared. The odor of sex clung to her, but most intriguingly, he could scent the blood that flowed through her veins.
She went willingly when he caught her arm and drew her into an empty chamber. That changed when his fangs extended, and her fear was more pleasurable than the blood he sipped from her.
Feeling all-powerful, he’d gone to Terese to learn when he would become rege