Chapter 17
Mira walked slowly back towards her cell, casting sidelong glances at each of the other vampires imprisoned with her. Some she knew. Some she’d been jailed with for twenty-plus years and still didn’t know their names. They were not in the same fighting class as she. And others she’d bested, but they’d been allowed to live. No matter who they were, they were all her kind. Vampires deserving of their freedom. Not cattle waiting for the slaughter. The thought of it sickened her. She herself was awaiting her fate in the next arena battle. Sure that the Magistrate had something special planned to shame her for her loss in the previous match as well as the failure of her blood in the experiment.
The idea of killing him was tempting, even if she hated to do it. And if she had the sli
