A Vampire To Watch Over Me [Vampire Coven Book II] Read Online Free PDF

Looking around she noted a hunting tool. Crouching near the hole, Honor began picking at the ice. She’d be damned if she just sat around and waited to die before she even got a chance to live.
     
     
     

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 2
     
    Honor had stripped down to her leather undergarments. The shirt just covered her belly, leaving her arms bare, and the pants were snug and came to just below her knees. It was treason to be so unclothed— it was bloody cold too . She shoved her furs through the hole she had made. It was a tight fit but she was able to wiggle through the opening she had hacked out. Her bare arms scraped across the ice—she was already feeling half frozen.
    It took her only seconds to yank her white furs back on, once free of her jail. She had been thinking while she was trying to gain her freedom. The men could keep their manmade laws, but she had made her own. She was going to go outside, she was going to learn to hunt and she was going to survive. There was no other option.
    Vampires had to be a myth; flying creatures that came out only at night with glowing eyes and fangs that drank blood? Seriously, who were the men kidding? Men used the idea of vampires as physiological warfare. Honor knew all about war. The older ice dwellers—some dead now, had spent long hours talking by the fire about their ancestors to anyone who would listen. Honor was an apt student, it was the only time anyone had noticed her and answered questions. It was how she had learned to fight. The fact they explained how battle moves worked was interesting. It had been bliss to punch Dylan in his stupid face. Except her hand hurt—that wasn’t quite so pleasant. Her face ached when she gritted her teeth.
    On stealthy feet, Honor made her way to the smaller cave. They had left no one guarding her. There was no way anyone wanted to be left out of the decision to strip her naked and expose her to the elements. She was no baby; they’d have to catch her first.
    Honor could see her breath as she moved slowly and steadily. Her heart was pounding. All she had was the weapon she had used to chisel her way out. The thought of killing someone made her grimace. But if they were going to kill her anyway, she needed to be ready to fight back.
    Honor made her way into the small hole from the night before. When she poked her head out of the ice, she breathed a sigh of relief. There was no one in sight. The wind had picked up and the sky wasn’t as clear, drab—it looked drab. It confused Honor. Isn’t it just night then day? She had thought there was either one or the other, not an in-between. Moving more quickly, she slipped and skidded down the side of the glacier. When she hit the ground, Honor broke into a run. Around any ice bank could lurk danger. There was no turning back. Honor might die, but she would die free. There was no honor in giving up or in.
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    Laken was sitting on a mound of furs; he stared vacantly into a brightly burning fire. He wasn’t cold, even though he was in a cave, and outside the wind was howling with another blizzard. Snow blew round the cave opening and ruffled his shoulder-length black hair. The fire was more of a comfort than a necessity, simple movement and some noise to offer a little distracting relief in the quiet of night. Laken wore a black t-shirt, black pants and heavy black boots. It was the coven attire and Laken found it amusing. It was how the humans differentiated between human and vampire.
    There were furs in the cave besides the ones he sat on, but they were mainly to wrap any human Tavish’s coven came across. There was synthetic blood for Laken to drink but thankfully, he wasn’t hungry. The blood their good Dr. Caine made was gross. A necessary evil for travel purposes. The others laughingly called it vampire trail mix. Bringing humans into the freezing cold was too dangerous, and because they were hard to come by in this new day and age, the vampires made certain their