House of Vampires and Flame (Shades of Ruin and Magic #1)

by Meg Xuemei X

I scowled at her. “Yeah, thanks for leading the vamp prince to me.”

That’s mean. She didn’t do that.

And I’m not sharing my breakfast with you, just so you know. You’ll have to get your own plate.”

Lordt…

As if being summoned by the Fates, Prince Killian suddenly turned his head, his gaze homing in on me. He’d sensed me, and the uncanny connection between us sparked to life like a livewire.

Definitely mates…

While his harsh, masculine beauty touched me in a way no other man had done, I pulled my lips back in a silent snarl to show him that he’d be messing with the wrong chick—the wrong boy—if he tried to pounce on me, despite the formidable power oozing from his every mighty pore.

Why would you listen to a biased vampire anyway? Drusila may be nice but she’s Team Louis all day every day, she’s going to say he’s the best heir.

I let out a gleeful squeal and sprang in that direction but made it only two steps before I got yanked back by Gunnar.

🤣🤣🤣 Knew it.

his magic composed of starlight—something I’d never encountered before—rushed to meet my wind, flirting with it.

Mates…

He corrected it, but it sounded false. When I’d first bumped into him in the woods, he’d said, “There she is!”

Exactly

“He’s too pretty to be a boy, Louis,” Killian added.

Aw! He thinks you’re pretty! 🤣🤣🤣

But little Bob has a special talent other than his blood tasting like nectar from a god.”

What’s the special talent?

“Is it true that your dragon will come out only when he recognizes his fated mate? Are you even a dragon?”

Whoa! Love it!

A powerful vampire could see his target’s memories when he drank directly from his victim or donor’s veins. I had forgotten this fact and threat because no one had taken blood from me before, not even my father.

So your father is a vampire as well?

He thought being my squire meant carrying my sword and flag, then making sure to bury me honorably after I’m killed.”

🤣🤣🤣🤣

His eyes on fire, Killian leaned toward Louis, like a shark smelling blood, menace rolling off him. My heart stuttered. “You fucked your squire?” he growled threateningly.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 MINE!

“He needs proper sex education. Send your women to seduce him,” Killian said, intent on planting bad ideas in Louis’s head.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

“Make it a game,” Killian said, and Louis’s eyes flashed in intrigue. “Reward the first one who sucks his little cock.” That motherfucker turned in my direction and winked while I was shaking with anger, my face burning beet-red.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Maybe you shouldn’t have snarled at him.

“And what did I say about not staring at the princes like an idiot?” he scolded.

She’s been staring for a while now, dude.

“What history? And whose history are you talking about?” I barked back. “You need to give me a better definition, Captain.”

🤣🤣🤣🤣

“It’s so humid that my brain hurts,” I said. “Permission to be excused, high sir?”

🤣🤣🤣🤣 High sir? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

“And I’ll need a full disclosure of my job description, working hours, and compensation,” I said. “I’ll need to review a written contract and have a copy on record.”

🤣🤣🤣🤣

already wish I was never born. But since I was born, I can’t go back, so I’m going to grab life by its horns and enjoy every fucking second. Are you with me, coyote?”

🤣🤣🤣🤣

“We need to get out of here!” the fae boy called in warning. “Prince Killian is coming!”

Uh oh!

“No one dares to sit there unless they want to commit social suicide, or real suicide in some cases.” “Shit, I don’t want to commit either.” I shook my head,

🤣🤣🤣🤣

“I’m regarded as the lowest in the academy, but I have an ability no one else in my house has, except maybe Prince Cade. I can feel power grades, and you’re in the highest caliber. I’ve never met a magical signature like yours. It’s like your magic is as massive as a black hole.”

So does that mean Prince Cade winked at her because he felt it at breakfast?

The mage prince wouldn’t be seeking me out, would he? I was nobody.

You just said his eyes locked on you…

“Get your ass here. Right fucking now!”

Entitled much? 🤣🤣🤣

If I don’t report for duty in time, he might whip me.”

You haven’t seen or heard of anyone getting whipped in the week that you’ve been there but you’re still saying that? 🤣🤣🤣

You kicked a noble fae student in the nuts and blued his balls.” I blinked. “I think I booted a shifter. A coyote? But he said he wasn’t a coyote. People lie these days.”

🤣🤣🤣🤣

“It was self-defense, high sir,” I said.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

“So, you want me to carry your sword—or in Your Highness’s case, your wand? And when you’re killed, I’ll make sure you get an honorable burial?”

Didn’t she realize that was bs when Killian was laughing about it? Poor Little Bob.

Think of all those times he made me watch him fuck! I wasn’t going to watch it for free anymore! I had bills to pay.

What bills! 🤣🤣🤣

“Gone?” I widened my eyes, shifting my weight from my left foot to the right uncomfortably. “Who killed him?” I shook my head in dismay. “Fuck, I’m too late! Now who is going to reimburse me for my one week’s hard work?

🤣🤣🤣🤣

I’d tell her that she could try a miniskirt without wearing panties, then sit across from Louis, lifting her foot subtly and crossing her leg a few times while taking notes from him.

🤣🤣🤣 Sharon Stone his ass!

“It’s a miracle that you’ve survived for so long.”

I said the same Drusilla

But eight years of freedom was too short, and I hadn’t really lived until I came to Mist of Cinder.

How is this living, being a servant and food to a vampire?

inserted Deathsong into the strap on my left boot, climbed out of the window, jumped to the balcony below, then a branch of a tree, and landed in a crouch on the ground.

Wasn’t she on the sixth floor?

I zoomed past the woods, the courtyard, and BattleStar training field and kept moving north.

Isn’t north where the vampires are?

Underhill! Enter At Your Own Peril!

Read another book and Underhill was fae related.

Of course. The Shrieker probably got a student from the school.

Probably someone you don’t like. Definitely not Bea, she wouldn’t go near there most likely…

How had the Shrieker captured her? Had America wandered to this forbidden zone? She wouldn’t have been so foolish to come up here on a dare, would she?

Killian ent her there to punish her for her goons attacking you… (just a guess)

“I feel you. I felt you when I entered this new realm. The magic here is pure and tenfold more potent than in the mortal realm!

How did she feel it? It sounds like she was already in the realm. Maybe she was but can’t get out.

“Run,” I said.

Now she knows you’re princess… a female.

I bet all my money that fae is going to rat us out. You don’t have a penny,

🤣🤣🤣🤣

little chubby cherub Bob.

I’m glad I’m not the only one that thought her description was cherub-like.

“All yours, my kin! Feast!” I called, kicking the corpse of the Shrieker, and Underhill’s shadow beasts descended upon my offering.

Now they are all ingesting your blood.

No one had fucked her like this fae male.

Wayment… is this Killian’s inner person? She said he was powerful like Killian…

And then I was looking up at Killian, his handsome face harsh, backlit by the dim moonlight, his eyes as cold as midnight ice.

Yep. It was Killian.

He sniffed, a sheen of molten gold rolling over his storm-blue eyes.

So he is a dragon..

He sniffed, his nostrils flaring, and crimson rings appeared around his pale blue irises.

She didn’t bathe…

“Who?! Where is your lover?” Louis demanded, jealous fire searing his eyes.

Why you jealous Louis, you don’t like boys…

He wouldn’t stop. He couldn’t, as he was lost to his bloodlust. No one else’s blood could offer him that kind of high. My blood was more addictive than any drugs.

Can you stop rambling on about it and do something though?