Eternity Embraced by Larissa Ione, now you can read online.
Chapter One
Andrea Cole had been hunting demons and vampires since she was eighteen, almost since the day she'd dropped out of college and returned home to witness both parents being torn apart by demons before her eyes.
That was nine years, a hundred kills, and two dozen broken bones ago.
Killing evil creatures had never bothered her.
Not once.
But tonight was different.
Tonight she might have to kill the love of her life.
She gripped her wooden stake so hard that she was surprised it didn't crack.
Silently, she eased down the damp, narrow staircase that led to an underground chamber beneath the Oregon billionaire's mansion.
The human scumbag was in league with demons who The Aegis, a society of human warriors who protected the world from evil, had been watching for two years.
Andrea's division, a special vampire investigative unit, had concentrated all its efforts on bringing this guy down, starting with the vampires he harbored on his property.
Beneath it, anyway.
Recently, an Aegis Guardian had disappeared into the bowels of the mansion.
Under the pretense of delivering a kitchen order from a local bakery, Kaden had snooped around and gotten lucky when he spotted the butler opening a secret panel in the pantry.
He'd followed the butler down a staircase, speaking softly into his hidden microphone to describe everything he saw.
At the bottom, he'd found himself in a giant chamber filled with torture devices, several filthy cells, dozens of tunnels and, unfortunately, more vampires than he could combat.
Andrea had listened in horror as Kaden was overwhelmed. When the sound had cut off, something inside her had died, and she'd done nothing but live and breathe revenge ever since.
And now, revenge was within her grasp, because at this very moment, there were twenty Guardians swarming the mansion grounds, armed to the teeth and working on three separate missions.
One: Capture the billionaire scumbag, Blake Alden.
Two: Kill as many vampires as possible.
Three: Find Kaden.
Find Kaden so Andrea could kill him.
The thought rolled through her on a wave of nausea.
Maybe he was okay.
Maybe the vampires hadn't turned him.
And maybe she was freaking delusional, because she knew damned good and well they'd done it.
Vamps got off on torturing Guardians -- or worse, turning them.
Nothing amused bloodsuckers more than dropping an enemy headfirst into their worst nightmare.
Cautiously, she stepped out of the stairwell and into a huge, cavernous basement.
From the stone walls hung wicked-looking implements of torture.