The night flew past us as we drifted away over desert sands and the Sierra, my thoughts the only comfort I could offer. The only place where I believed we might be safe was within the arms of the Covene Cornix: The Coven of Raven; my sire’s own Club Dread in the city of lost angels.
I knew my father would not be very welcoming to my pet and I with such a predicament upon our plates. He would probably punish me for leaving his presence when I was too young according to the Traditions; most vampires were only allowed to leave their sire after a hundred years or more but never less. I left of my own accord, without permission, just so I could learn all I could about the world and all its knowledge, both hidden and known.
The Sierras were beginning to shrink below us as we came closer to our destination. Sahra had begun to shiver in my grasp as the chill night air rushed through our hair and began to frost our skin. We still had not eaten and my hunger was beginning to make me weak; I could barely hold us aloft.
As I felt my strength begin to wane, I saw the flashing blue lights that marked Club Dread on the Sunset Strip of Los Angeles; our fates, and lives, hanged in the bitter hands of my sire. He would not let me go unpunished for my transgressions, and he may use my love as a punishment. I could not imagine my eternity without her, nor could I stomach thinking of what treatment we may be given when we showed up at the front entrance with such a story as ours to tell.
The werecat that was the door bouncer to my father’s club recognized me and let us through without a second glance. Meeting my sister Kahli at the long bar to the side of the entrance, we were led down the black slate floor hall that would bring us to a set of winding steel stairs where my master awaited us. He knew of our arrival even before we landed in the alley behind the club, he sensed my intentions.
Opening the deep burgundy lacquered doors that closed his room from us, Sahra and I took a deep breath, and we pushed the bloody portal open to reveal my father to us, and to place our lives in the hands of the bloodiest sadist the world would ever know.
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