Roan checked out her. “So long as he doesn’t overdo it.”

In fact Kodiak would overdo it. He wouldn’t be Kodiak in any other case.

And it wasn’t over. All of them knew that. Particularly Kodiak. He didn’t have to inform her, he needed his revenge, to finish this horror present so badly the room nearly vibrated with it. Though Tamaska had reclaimed the Blood Opal, the vampires have been most positively nonetheless a menace.

Who knew what they’d do, now that their treasured gem had been misplaced?

Tamaska took the Blood Opal out from her pocket and checked out it. The stone mirrored the room’s mild, exhibiting off its brilliance regardless of a crack down the middle and a lacking shard.

“We bought it again?” requested Kodiak. He held out his hand, and Tamaska gave him the gem.

“I feel it’s damaged,” mentioned Tamaska.

“No approach to know for positive, I suppose.” Kodiak turned it over in his arms.

She rubbed her arms. “Amdis didn’t go after it, not as soon as it cracked.”

“Hmmm, you may be proper. We will at all times take a look at it.”

“How? We don’t need my blood coming in touch with it.”

“That ship’s already sailed,” mentioned Kodiak, his voice mild.

A chill ran by Tamaska. “What?”

Kodiak held up the gem. “You’ve bought blood in your arms.”

“Oh…I believed I used to be being cautious.” Horror unfold by her.

“It’s not doing something,” Kodiak mentioned as he handed it again to Tamaska.

“Possibly it wants extra blood?” However in some way, she knew.

Turning it over in her arms, including extra of her blood to its floor, didn’t provoke a change in its look. At the same time as her blood soaked into the gem, no energy was launched, no talents enhanced. It was now not a menace to her or a boon to the vampires.

“No, it’s damaged. I do know it.” It was a reduction to say the phrases, understanding the safety that had been granted to her after the gem’s destruction. However the stone had additionally made her really feel related to her ancestors—a part of her lineage that, till just lately, had been hidden and forgotten.

“It’s yours now,” Kodiak mentioned, interrupting her ideas.

“I don’t know what to do with it.” Her entire plan in retrieving the Blood Opal had been to return it to its homeowners so she might get on together with her work as an occasion planner. However there was no going again to that life. She now not belonged to that world, and her urge to provide the Blood Opal again had disappeared. It was a part of her heritage. “All this…for nothing.”

“Not nothing. If it isn’t working then you definately fastened the vampiric downside. They need to return to their regular mild hating selves,” he mentioned. “I’m not saying they’ll hand over coming for us; Amdis has an ax to grind. And we’re not going to allow them to relaxation and wreak their common havoc, both.”

“I hope that’s true,” she mentioned. “I simply…I suppose I hoped the opal might deliver us one thing, however now it’s not even price cash.”

She positioned its two items on prime of the bedside desk.

“You don’t need to determine something proper now. However not less than you’ve discovered about a completely new world,” mentioned Kodiak.

“A world I wish to be a part of, absolutely,” mentioned Tamaska, trying deeply into his eyes.

He nodded. “I’ll flip you on the full moon, in a number of days,” mentioned Kodiak.

Tamaska smiled, pleasure surging. “You’ll?”

“I’ll. On one situation.”

“What?”

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