Because John's not ready to announce to the entire mansion how he feels, he goes with Qhuinn and Blaylock to a tattoo shop. He wants to honor her no matter her status with a tattoo of her name in the Old Language. He's now a bonded male, with his lover lost to world without knowing if she is alive or dead. John Matthew has been in fog since Xhex's disappearance. He feeds off her anger and can't help admiring the bruises that she's left on him from their fighting. Lash has enjoyed having a prisoner, even though she was not the Sympath Princess, but he loves that she fights back fiercely, dislocating a shoulder at least once. She's been a prisoner for about a month, tortured by looking out windows knowing that no one could see her. Four members of the Brotherhood approach him.įor nearly four weeks, Xhex has been trapped an invisible prison created by Lash. The brutality of the camp doesn't sit well with Darius and he doesn't fit in amongst them. He'd earned this right when the Bloodletter attempted to make him fall in line and D beat the Bloodletter others volunteered to inflict the punishment in his stead. Darius soon became a lethal warrior and always won the skirmishes, but he refused to participate in the requisite rape of the loser. Coming from the glymera, his fine clothing made him a target of the other trainees, but his blooded father, Tehrror, had been a Brother so he had the body and the instincts to fight. In 1644, Darius is writing in his diary about how after his mother's death, his stepfather, Marklon, dumped him at the Bloodletter's cave and didn't look back. Reminder that this wiki contains spoilers so please proceed with caution.

Readers should be aware this book contains homophobic characters, kidnapping, rape, and deals with post-traumatic stress disorder. Other Characters Black Dagger Brotherhood Members As a vicious personal vendetta takes John into the heart of the war, he will need to call up on both who he is now and who he once was in order to face off against evil incarnate…and rescue his one true love.

Indeed, the fallen Brother Darius has returned, but with a different face and a very different destiny. After he was taken in by the Brotherhood, no one could guess what his true history was-or his true identity.

John Matthew has come a long way since he was found living among humans, his vampire nature unknown to himself and to those around him.

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