Summoning Shadows: A Rosso Lussuria Vampire Novel Read Online Free PDF

and I could feel her gaze like the cool light of the moon, a bright beacon to my heart.
    I crawled into bed. The last time Cuinn had taken over my senses, only Renata’s grip had kept me from falling on my face. I crossed my legs and rested against the pillows as I tried to make myself comfortable. Renata came to the side of the bed.
    Leaning over, she pressed her full lips to mine, and one of her hands rose to cup my jaw. Her tongue brushed past my lips and encouraged my blood to sing. Under her kiss, my mind too felt pleasantly cloudy as if I had drunk too much wine.
    She drew away and murmured, “You taste of her.”
    I didn’t know what to say. Most days, I had time to wash Iliaria from my skin before Renata woke. It was a measure of respect. It was different when she shared me, for the two were sharing me in the moment, but to know that I’d been making love to the Dracule while Renata slept …
    A sharp pang of guilt gnawed at me, not because of what Iliaria and I had done, but because of what might’ve happened to Renata while Iliaria and I had been preoccupied with each other.
    The thought made me feel guilty.
    Renata smiled softly. No doubt, she heard my thoughts. Whether I willed her to or not, she was my queen, my Siren, and there was no door within me she couldn’t walk through.
    But our powers were a double-edged blade, for I could sense her emotions and knew that in some part of her, my guilt pleased her. She would not allay me of it. Rather, she reveled in knowing I cared deeply enough about her to feel guilty.
    I placed my hand over hers and her skin was cool and smooth against mine. The length of her tapered fingers twined with mine.
    I let her have it, all of it; my guilt, my concern, my relief. It was hers.
    “When you are done, cara mia, we will remedy your predicament,” she whispered against my cheek. The promise was enticing, and I resisted the urge to reach out and touch her. Now wasn’t the time. Along with the pang of guilt, she knew too the steady flame of unquenched desire within me.
    I nodded, slightly, sensing Cuinn’s impatience despite the fact that he did not give voice to it. Renata moved away, and I focused on Cuinn, closing my eyes to concentrate.
    The first time Cuinn had helped me to “see” without my eyes, he’d done it relatively quickly, but this time he made an effort to be more patient and to instruct me.
    Seeing as we do not know where they are, it will take more concentration from the both of us to find them, he said.
    Cuinn had once used this ability to find Iliaria when she’d been summoned to kill the Rosso Lussuria. He’d sensed danger and woke me, and because he had sensed her, it was easier to find her in the labyrinth of hallways. Dominique and Dante would not be so easily found. They weren’t a threat, and without that sense of danger, Cuinn had to work harder. We had no starting point, so I was not sure how exactly we were to find them.
    What if they had been taken from the Sotto? What if there was nothing to find or sense? I did not like the thought. Dante and Dominique were more than pretty muscle; they were two of the best guardsmen Renata had ever had. I liked them, as much as you can like someone who keeps you at arm’s length for two hundred years.
    We may need your queen’s help , Cuinn murmured through my mind, to use her ties to them as a compass.
    “Renata,” I whispered. “We need your aid.”
    She sat on the bed beside me and took my hands in hers again. “I will do what I can. I have not sensed them, so I do not know how great a help my ties as their Siren will be.”
    One thing at a time, Cuinn said. Just ’cause she doesn’t sense them doesn’t mean they’re not there. We’ll focus on one of them first, then the other, to avoid being pulled in two different directions if they’re not in the same place.
    But, I thought, if Renata does not sense them, that could mean—
    It could, Cuinn said. It does not absolutely.
    If Renata had