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a vampire, yet is completely human. It is not possible.”
    “No, it is not. Now let her go.” Nikalye kept his voice calm, but hard. He’d find out about the mystery of the woman’s blood once he had her safe.
    “I don’t think so. You see she has awakened the beast inside me, the beast that hungers for blood.” The vampire’s blue-white eyes met Nikalye’s. “You know all about that, spending all of your time with the half-breed. She has been there, many times. She knows how hard it is to stop.”
    “But she did stop, and you can, too. Do not make me do anything I will regret.”
    The vampire threw back his head and laughed, making the shocked woman jump and whimper. “No one can truly come back from bloodlust, not even Layla. You know this.”
    “Let her go.”
    “I will escape you, just as I have many times. You cannot always be there to protect your precious Layla, Nikalye. I will find a way to get to her.”
    Nikalye charged at the vampire and the woman screamed. She had nothing to fear, for the vampire did not know his intentions. Nikalye caught him off guard.
    He threw him across the room and with one glance at Doxiak, silently telling him to go to the woman, he ran to where the vampire slumped down. Nikalye grabbed him around the throat and pulled him to his feet as he drew his sword.
    “You will not do it, Nikalye. You do not dare. You are too kind hearted to murder.”
    “You are right.” Nikalye sank his sword into the vampire’s chest.
    He gasped and his eyes widened as blood pooled at the corners of his mouth.
    “This is not murder, however. This is justice.” Nikalye pushed further until the hilt and his hand touched skin. The vampire stopped breathing and slumped against Nikalye.
    After withdrawing his sword and dropping the body, Nikalye turned to the woman.
    Nikalye staggered back, growling with hunger. He opened his eyes and met Belia’s. He now understood why the vampires had been affected by her blood.
    She stared, wide-eyed, her face flushed with arousal. “Oh…wow.”
    Nikalye pulled her hard and pressed her lips against his. He wanted her touch and taste more than ever now.
    “ Guerrero. ”
    Nikalye pulled away from Belia and leaving her gasping for breath, he turned his attention to Layla.
    She stood poised for attack, her eyes darting everywhere.
    Nikalye sent his senses out with his mind, searching where they couldn’t see. Vampires were making their way around the mansion, their weapons drawn.
    Nikalye pulled himself back and met Layla’s eyes.
    “They’re already here Nikalye, around us.” As she spoke, the air shimmered around them all.
    A glare of light forced his eyes shut for a second before Nikalye could snap them open. He held Belia close to him.
    Spirit Demons surrounded them, their Light weapons trained on all three of them as the vampires finally made their way around the mansion and over to where they were surrounded.
    Layla growled menacingly. She bared her teeth when the Spirit Demons closed in on her.
    “Move back! I wish to have my fun before you have yours.”
    The Spirit Demons moved back, leaving Nikalye, Layla and Belia in the middle. Some parted to let a vampire through. Tall, tanned and scarred. He looked alike to Nikalye except his eyes had no ring of red.
    “Tiavyse?”
    “Hello brother.” Without warning, he attacked. Nikalye opened his mind wide, hearing his brother’s thoughts before he dodged and attacked himself, twisting around and kicking his brother in the back, forcing him away from Belia.
    “I killed you. How are you alive?”
    Tiavyse turned slowly. “The answer is in her blood. You may have killed me, but somehow her blood restarted my body once you left me to rot in that house with her disgusting family.
    “You bastard!”
    Nikalye moved fast, standing in front of Belia before Tiavyse could even turn. “How could a blood of a human heal you from the inside?”
    “Ask your healer, brother. He will tell you a story only he