Reign (2014)
“The front of it was stained with blood. Claude knew she was crying before he even turned around. He recognized the choked breathing, her heavy steps. This had become a routine.He looked down at his supper, ignoring her. The beet soup reminded him of the innocent’s blood. Traces of that warm, heavy taste were still in his mouth from the night before. He wouldn’t answer to this woman, his wife. He would not explain himself to a mortal.“When?” she cried at his back. “When will it end? How many mor...e will die before they are appeased?”“They are appeased for now,” Claude replied, not looking up. “They are appeased because of these sacrifices.”He’d stopped taking his followers into the woods at night. There were too many in the cult now, over a hundred in all. They stayed in their cottages and prayed to their pagan gods while he killed. Alone in the woods, he’d began drinking the blood. The first taste was hard to get down, but now he’d drunk the blood of four innocents, and he knew he was stronger because of it.MoreLess
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