The Black Madonna (The Mystique Trilogy) - Plot & Excerpts
At a guess the forbidding castle-like structure dated back to the sixteenth century, but the dark energy emanating from the site was cultivated much further back in time. The gates were open and I spied Killian’s Porsche parked at the end of the long drive. Emmett was sleeping like a baby in the passenger seat, so I locked him inside the Humvee and moved to feel the bonnet of Killian’s car. It was still warm. I raced to the front door and blasted it from its iron hinges. A large foyer appeared before me, a curved staircase rising each side to the upper level; obviously of a much later period than the exterior structure. Directly ahead, beneath the landing where the staircases met, was an archway and there stood one of my fallen kindred, with an Orme spike poised at Killian’s neck. ‘I’m just bait for you,’ Killian tried to warn me. The spike grazed his neck and my heart almost stopped beating, but I couldn’t allow my foe to sense that I gave a damn. ‘Namtar,’ I said, for even in his wretched state I recognised him, ‘given up wearing Morell Labontè, have you?
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