Chapter 73“These are the fruits of betrayal," said Shakespeare as he throttled the last of the vampires sent to kill him. "Would I had your master in your place, that I could give this message to him sooner than later."
With that, Shakespeare broke the vampire's neck and hurled him against the wall. The vampire fell onto the pile already amassed on the floor there—six other vampires, all dead or broken, who had come to murder him in his watching place overlooking the Brain of Kitezh.
Moments after James and Thomas had left to neutralize Nicolo, the vampires had swarmed Shakespeare. So numerous and well-trained had they been, they'd kept him busy a long time and had nearly killed him more than once.
They had never told him the name of the master who'd sent them, but Shakespeare knew.
