Blood Prize (Bloody Dance #1) by A Muse Read Free Book Online

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    “What about you, Zero?” I could feel their eyes on me. What about me? What would I do? What was my choice?
    “I’m going with Shu. I’m going to meet Ban again.” I couldn’t avoid it. A part of me even looked forward to it. It’s been a long time since I last saw Ban. Forty years was a long time to go without looking at someone. It was about time we met up again.
    Aya made this defeated sound. She was pushing her fingers through her hair again. Her eyes were on me before she nodded her head. What did that suppose to mean? She was in?
    “If Zero is brave enough I can be too.” I shut my eyes against her words. She wasn’t me. I had died already. I didn’t have any reason to fear the death that Ban could give me. Aya just thought I was some brave kid. I wish I could tell her. I wish I could make her understand she shouldn’t base her choices on me. I was so much more than she could comprehend.
     
     
    It was night when we made it to Dragun. Standing in front of the trunk we checked our weapons. The club that Maya was inside was across the street from the parking lot. I could already see a line of men and women gathering, waiting to get in.
    Carrying weapons into a club was common practice. There were dangerous people, dangerous monsters all around us. You were crazy if you didn’t walk around with some kind of protection. I knew for a fact that most of the people in the line had weapons. Yet still we were all going into the wolf’s den.
    Three demons were inside waiting for their prey. I haven’t seen them kill anyone yet though. I’ve kept my third eye open for the ride to Dragun. So far, Maya sang, Kenji spoke a few words. Ban didn’t show his face. So what were they doing? We were about to find out.
    Moving across the street we all fell in line with the others. At least an hour had passed before we were close enough to see the bouncer at the door. Standing outside of the line talking to the second bouncer was three people. I could . . . smell them. They smelled sweet, like flowers and . . . hope.
    Two of them were males and then there was a woman. Even though the woman was pretty, it was the smallest of the group that drew my eyes to them. He was . . . beautiful. The kind of beauty that I’ve only seen in Ban before. Unlike Ban his beauty was bright; there wasn’t any darkness inside of him.
    Long strawberry blonde hair stopped at the center of his back. He was so tiny, petite even. When he turned, his eyes locked with mine. They were a soft blue color and I could see the power he held inside. It wasn’t the elemental kind of magic like Aya, nor was the black magic demons possess.
    This boy had the rarest of all magic. White magic meant that his soul was pure. That he was untouched but all things evil in this world. This boy had no sins, he was unblemished. A dark part of me wanted to taint his pureness. A darker part of me wanted to drink the sweet blood that rested in his veins.
    When he looked at me, I felt something. Something inside of me called to him. Something inside of me knew him. That was . . . impossible. He didn’t look older than fifteen, sixteen at the most. How could I know him? I was with Shu and his family for the last forty years. Turning away from him, I looked to the boy beside him.
    This boy had blackish-blue hair. His eyes were a dark green. He was tall, built, maybe in his twenties. He was looking towards me as well. There was a frown on his face as he glared. Who were these people? They looked at me as if they knew my secret. Could they? Could they somehow guess that I was a demon? How?
    Turning from the two boys my eyes shifted to the woman they were with. She seemed old enough to be both of their mothers. As pretty as she was she paled next to the pure boy. She was talking to the bouncer. Maybe trying to get the under-aged kid inside of the club.
    Why were they here? What were people like them doing here? Maybe they were Demon Hunters too. I could see the sword on