Chapter 30
Terrill and Sylvie were never left alone after Fitzsimmons’s power grab, except within the confines of their heavily guarded suite. There was never a moment when Sylvie wasn’t threatened by the proximity of armed guards, all of whom made it clear that their first reaction to any sign of resistance would be to hurt her. As a human, there was no way Terrill would have been able to kill all the guards before they killed Sylvie – and even as a vampire, it was going to be difficult, even if he caught them by surprise.
Terrill bided his time, hoping that the sentries would relax their vigilance or that he could find some other way to escape. He also hoped that the opposition would contact him again, since he was certain that Fontaine and Kruger, the two murdered councilors, couldn’t
