Page 98 of Amethyst and Iron
ThePuritasthreat had been fully investigated now then, and he’d clearly determined it so severe that he’d initiated this protocol.
The bathroom door burst open and Sylas rushed out.
Naked.
Wet and naked.
I swallowed hard and I saw Velra struggle with it too.
The severity of the alert transcended even that, all three of us exchanging a grave look.
Sylas sighed heavily. “And so it begins.”
15
~Lazriel~
My dad was a badass motherfucker.
I’d never seen anything like it from a vampire before.
All I’d witnessed, all the fights I’d participated in, all those who I’d brought to their knees… none of that even held a candle to this.
Fucking shit.
He’d told me to hang back. Not exactly an order, but a firm instruction definitely.
It was hard to pull that off without causing an aggressive reaction in me, the urge to argue against it, to deny what had been asked so that I could remain in the thick of it. Or, let’s face it, so I could do things my way.
But there was something about the way he spoke, the way he delivered theseinstructionsthat didn’t trigger that in me at all.
“Remain at a distance. Do not engage. Just observe, listen, and feel. It will serve you well, I assure you.”
Those had been his words.
Standing on the sidelines wasn’t exactly my thing.
Hell, everybody knew that.
All too well.
But I wasn’t feeling that irritating itch under my skin this time as I stood just watching.
Because it didn’t feel likejust watching.
It was so fucking immersive.
I couldn’t take my eyes off it, let alone the rest of my senses.
I looked on from an elevated vantage point of a cracked silo belonging to an abandoned farmhouse a hundred feet away.
When he’d left me up here toobserve,he’d disappeared into the darkness and the dense forest surrounding his target. He’d then moved so fast when he’d approached that I hadn’t even been able to register him until he stood right in front of the entrance to the ugly-ass building.
A decommissioned industrial base.
It was currently being used byPuritas.
One of their cells.
