The Dark Awakening: Urban Paranormal Fantasy (The Chosen Coven Book 1)

by D L Blade

  Once I reached them, they fell to their knees, pleading.

  Oh, come on.

  “Please don’t kill me. I don’t want to die,” cried the one who had mocked me earlier as he grabbed my throat to toss me into the coffin. “Just turn us human,” he pleaded.

  I chuckled at his words. That was what I had offered them as they shoveled dirt over me for thirty minutes. I had given them an out. I had warned them my coven would find me and that they’d be hunted down until I stuck a stake through their hearts.

  They hadn’t listened.

  The second one held up his hands in defeat. “Please, I have a wife and—"

  Poof! He was dust.

  Caleb stood there holding his own stake. The first one closed his eyes, but when he opened them again, they were red.

  “You’ll pay for that, bitch! And when you do, I’ll make you all suffer,” he threatened, flashing his sharp and deadly fangs.

  I leaned down, placed the stake to his chest, and shook my head. “Have fun in hell, asshole.”

  My stake impaled his chest with a quick thrust, and I watched him turn to dust. He would now join his friend in whatever afterlife those creeps went to.

  “Well, I’m ready for dinner,” I stated, but felt my voice crack. “Actually, I could really use some water.”

  “Water, yes, but food will have to wait. Something happened on Main Street a couple hours ago. There are police everywhere,” Caleb explained.

  “East Greenwich?” I asked.

  Caleb nodded.

  “Vampire attack?”

  Leah shrugged. “We don’t know yet, but Lily told us someone died.”

  My stomach twisted into knots. Was this someone we knew?

  “What time is it?” I asked Ezra, who stood next to me.

  Ezra looked down at his phone. “Midnight. Lily told us it happened around ten, just a few hours after you went missing.”

  Caleb reached into his pocket and pulled out my phone. I had dropped my purse when they attacked me. I didn’t even have a moment to defend myself before the needle had pricked my neck.

  I had planned on meeting the coven for a couple rounds of pool when they’d snatched me. We were right outside of downtown Providence. Not once since this all started had they attacked so close to our town. I hadn’t expected it.

  “Let’s go, then,” I ordered, and we hurried to Simon’s car. As much as I didn’t want the attack to be from a vampire, it was the only way we’d find the ones that had to go. The ones that refused to turn human. The ones like the two we had just killed.

  They were worthless, evil, and undeserving of our mercy.

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  Also by D. L. Blade

  Read in order – Click title to be directed to Amazon

  The Dark Awakening (The Chosen Coven Book One)

  The Dark Underworld (The Chosen Coven Book Two)

  The Dark Deliverance (The Chosen Coven Book Three)

  Acknowledgments

  Thank you to all my beta readers, and my editor who acted as a mentor on several occasions.

  I also want to give a special thank you to my husband, who supported me when I gave up my career in real estate to fulfill a dream I have: to be a published author. He has been such an incredible support, and I couldn’t do this without him.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  D.L. Blade grew up in California and studied at the California Healing Arts College, going on to work as a massage therapist for thirteen years. D.L. now lives in Colorado, where she worked as a real estate agent for a time before deciding to concentrate on her family and her writing.

  D.L. always loved writing, concentrating on poetry, rather than prose, when she was younger. That changed, however, when she had a dream one night and decided to write a book about it. In her spare time, D.L. enjoys a wide variety of hobbies, including reading, writing, attending rock concerts, and spending time outdoors with her family, camping, and going on outings.

  In the future, D.L. hopes she can continue to write exciting novels that will captivate her readers and bring them into the worlds she creates with her imagination.