Chapter 294

“You’re not exactly giving her reason to relax with the hood? Sinister and mysterious are not always the way to make new friends, Darrius.” Leyanne points out, ironically, given she was wearing one when we met her last night. The vampire pauses… seeming to ponder it for a moment, then with a slight tilt of his head and a raised arm. He pulls back his hood slowly to reveal a handsome, masculine face under dark brows and a crown of modern-styled black hair. I freeze as he blinks blood red, glowing eyes, my way that makes my breath catch in my throat, and I choke. Startled with the intensity of their light in this dark space, they almost glow like crimson candles in the pitch black of night. “And that reaction is somehow better?” He asks her drily, seemingly amused at my instant shock and unimpressed at the same time. Vampires we’ve been against never had the same color of eyes as me. He’s the first I have ever seen, and it throws me off kilter completely, gawping his way and blinking lik