I turned my head to see where the noises were coming from—and froze as I took in the scene that’d unfolded in the room while I’d been preoccupied. “Vampire orgy” was the only description that came to mind as I stared until I thought my eyes would roll straight out of my skull. Everywhere, vampires were sucking on moaning humans, fangs buried in throats, thighs, wrists… the floor was pooling with crimson, and in the middle of the blood, several dozen clusters of bodies writhed together in unmistakable rhythm. Hard slaps of flesh against flesh filled the room, mixing in the cacophony of broken human moans. “Oh, dear goddess,” I whispered as the horror of the scene penetrated through the shock. “Come, Liv.” Warin lifted me off his lap and got to his feet. When I didn’t move, he closed his

