Jennifer Armintrout Blood Ties 3 Ashes to Ashes

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edges of the stake. "Where the fuck is she?"
"Max! You will kill him!" Bella's voice cut through the red haze of Max's
anger. This asshole had tried to kill her.
He'd tried to push a stake through her heart. He'd put his hands on her in
anger.
"Max, please, we will not get any information from him this way." Bella
grasped his arm.
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Relenting with the stake, just a little, Max twisted his foot. Patrick's face
went purple.
"You're going to die. You can tell us where to find the Oracle and I'll send
you out fast, or you can hold out. I could make this last all night. What do
you say?"
Patrick grasped Max's ankle, trying to dislodge his foot, but when it didn't
work, he settled for giving him the finger.
"Get the holy water," Max growled. He dropped to a knee on the vampire's
chest and gripped his jaw, forcing his mouth open.
Patrick's loud, angry sounds of protest changed in pitch to frenzied panic
when he saw the vial in Bella's fist.
"You gonna talk?" Max reached toward Bella for the vial, but something in the
way she clutched it tighter warned him off.
It didn't translate to Patrick."Fine, fine. I don't know exactly where. Her
people came here the other night."
"Are they coming back?" Max struggled to keep a grip on the stake. Why were
his hands suddenly sweaty?
"In two nights."The whites of Patrick's eyes were becoming a spiderweb of
broken vessels. "They'll be here right at sundown. They're supposed to take me
to the Oracle. She'll have what she wants by then. She thinks& she thinks I've
got a message from the Soul Eater that can only be delivered to her."
"It is never the same ones twice," Bella interjected with a delicate sniff.
"Many have been here since you arrived& two weeks ago."
"You're good," Patrick said, with a sneer to show he didn't appreciate it.
"Another guy was here before me. One of the Soul Eater's own babies."
Max applied a little more weight to his knee. "What's the message?"
"No message," the vampire groaned. "It's a sham. I'm supposed to go in and
get what the Soul Eater wants. The other guy has his own instructions."
"What's that?" Max asked, something cold clenching in his guts.
Patrick looked at Bella, a crazed light coming to his eyes. His mouth parted
in a sickening smile. "You're going to die. You know it. You should have let
me stake you."
"Shut up." Max pressed the stake into Patrick's chest.
He didn't pay any attention to his imminent demise, his eyes still trained
intensely on Bella. "You'll suffer. And you'll die. And you'll know you are
powerless to protect your child."
"What?" Max looked to Bella for a denial. She backed away with her hand over
her mouth.
This can't be happening. The last few weeks unspooled in his mind. The riddle
was so obvious now that he knew the answer.
The vampire beneath him laughed. "You didn't know?"
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He burned before he could scream.
Max grabbed Bella's arm and jerked her from the cottage, oblivious to her
protests. He knew he should have investigated the room for more evidence. No,
he didn't care they'd come all this way for nothing.
Once they were in the car, driving way too fast down the dirt road, he
exploded.
"What the hell was he talking about?A kid? It sure as hell can't be mine!"
The vehicle went airborne for a minute when they reached the road. For a
second, he wasn't sure they wouldn't sail into the ditch.
Bella sobbed silently beside him. "It has to be! I have not been with anyone
except you."
"Hate to burst your little lie bubble, but vampires aren't exactly fertile!"
He gunned the engine to make it through a yellow light. "Meaning that can't be
mine!"
"Well, how else would you explain it?" She pounded the dash with her fist. "I
do not know how it happened. But it happened! And now the Oracle will take our
child!"
"There is no child!" He clenched the steering wheel almost hard enough to
snap it. "We're going back toChicago . We'll get this all sorted out there."
She nodded, for once being reasonable. "You are right. We will leave. We will
leave."
"Finally, something you say makes sense." They'd get as far away from the
Oracle as Max could get them. As for Bella's story of how she got knocked up&
well, they could figure that one out later.
He relaxed a little, settling back in his seat. Things would work out. Bella
wouldn't die, they'd be finished with this Oracle business and everything
would work out.
He saw the headlights of the car just before it hit them crumpling the
passenger side and spinning them into a ditch.
Chapter Seventeen: Mother
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