Rising Son (The Juliana Lucio Series) by L.C. DeCarlo Read Free Book Online Page B

thought the bookshelf was just that, a huge floor-to-ceiling inlaid bookshelf, but William later revealed to me it also doubled as a secret passageway to a weapons stockade underneath the house as well as an escape tunnel that opened up in the separate garage out back.
    She stopped her pacing and came to sit in front of me on the couch.
    “My role in the Council is to work in the ER, and morgue, in order to pick up any patterns of attack that fit those of vampire attacks. If I am ever approached or come across a rogue vampire working for the Coven I act sympathetic to their cause garnering any information I can. I pass the information along to William whose role is to actually infiltrate a nd attend meetings; he is slowly moving up the ranks of the Coven itself. The Coven’s purpose is to out vampires to the human world, but they want to do it on a massive scale bringing humans cowering on their knees in terror , l eaving no room for an uprising.
    They believe that will be the only way to ensure humans don’t rise up and war against them. The only thing standing in the way of the Coven taking over many of the major cities of the world right now is the Council. Our two factions of vampires are on the brink of starting their own war with each other, just to prevent humans from ever discovering our kind. Nathaniel was a high ranking member of the Coven, not to mention a master vampire. When we killed him, all of our Coven contacts in the city of Chicago went underground. We were supposed to be mon itoring another faction of the C oven that has fled since Nathaniel’s death. I can’t find them anywhere or get any leads on where they’ve gone.”
    “What do you mean by all of them?”
         “Just that, we haven’t been able to contact a single one.”
“This means either they know we had something to do with it, and that’s why they are avoiding us --”
    “Which is also why you can’t be alone until we know what is going on. If they know we had a part in it, they know about you, and will be coming for you,” Ana interrupted.
    “As I was saying,” William continued, “it could also mean that this is just the standard M . O . , if a higher up is taken out, the rest of the rats flee. We simply don’t know at this point, but we need to find out quick, before Sebastian or Martin intervenes.”
    “Oh God, I really messed everything up.”
    “Don’t. We knew what we were getting ourselves into when we agreed to help you. We didn’t think all of our leads would up and flee without a trace, but still we knew the risks. It was worth it to help you Jules,” William said. He was finally looking at me again, I looked over at Ana and she nodded her head in agreement.
    I leaned my head back on the couch and blo w ing out a breath of air. I believed what I was about to do was the right thing, and so help me God, if I was wrong I would kill every last one of them.
    But I knew I could trust William and Ana. I knew they would never betray me, even though I had just accused them of that and fled, not twenty-four hours earlier. I looked from William's eyes to Ana’s as they looked back at me steady and sure. They knew we were about to be up against something big, but weren’t even thinking of backing down.
    Yeah, I could trust them.
    “Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but . . . well, I am. You see, the thing is . . . when I went to see Christian, I went to compel him into forgetting Victoria, Nathaniel, and me. Pretty much everything vampire related . . .”
    “You told me this earlier at the hospital,” Ana interrupted.
    “Right. Well, it didn’t exactly work,” I told them cringing waiting for the fight to begin.
    “Which part didn’t work?” Ana asked me narrowing her eyes.
    “Um, all of it, none of it. I tried to compel him every way I could think of, and nothing would work. I even started to wonder if perhaps I could compel him into doing something physical, and it was just the memory I