Timeless (Immortal Love Series) Read Free

After all, she had control over the guard. Well, almost everyone was loyal. Of course, there were the lone vampires that tried to challenge her power from time to time but they never amounted to much of a threat. The Letrell’s were the only exception that I knew of.
    I tried to think of a time or a conversation that would prove David was disloyal. I did remember a night when he had showed loyalty to the Letrell’s, but did that mean he was disloyal to Neleh? She would say so, but I wasn’t so sure. I closed my eyes tight and tried to replay the conversation in my head.
    It was a long time ago. I was only fifteen or sixteen at the time. Lexon was still reeling from Neleh’s visit. She didn’t come very often during those early years, but when she did the effects could be felt for months.
    I had climbed on top of the low roof of the cells. David found me there, alone.
    “ Hey, what are you doing up here?” He smiled and sat beside me.
    “ Nothing really,” I shrugged, “just thinking.”
    “ About what?” He didn’t stare me down the way Neleh would have. He was actually holding a small metal object and most of his attention was already on that. David was a man of science, created in the name of science. Human emotions and trials meant very little to David.
    “ What’s that?” I asked instead of answering.
    “ This?” Obviously. “It’s a thermo aquatic device used to measure electronic impulses.” I blinked twice. He smiled. “So what are you thinking about?”
    “ You come here to think too?”
    “ Sometimes. I just can’t get this thing to work right.” He waved the object in the air and gave a frustrated sigh.
    “ I like listening to the sounds outside of Lexon,” I admitted.
    He looked surprised and then amused. “So your auditory perception has increased.”
    “ Yeah, I can hear so much clearer now.”
    “ What do you hear?”
    We were both silent while I stretched my new senses. “Mostly I hear the screaming and the guns.” His amused expression changed to a grimace. “People killing each other night after night.” I turned my face away from David. “I hate the nights,” I whispered.
    David didn’t say anything. “I don’t understand it,” I said after a while.
    “ Understand what? Why they kill each other?”
    “ No.” I shook my head. “I don’t understand why she cares to save them.”
    “ Ah,” David said with understanding.
    “ You won’t tell her I said anything?”
    “ No.” His eyes narrowed. “They weren’t always like this Eva. You have to understand, after Jewell hit —humanity changed.”
    “ So you remember what it was like when they were good?”
    “ Yes, of course.”
    “ So is that why you joined Neleh? To help humans become good again?”
    “ No.” Irritation flickered across his face for a fraction of a second.
    “ Then why did you join her?”
    He turned his face slowly towards me, his expression guarded. “It is hard to explain really. I didn’t see eye to eye with the one who created me so I left him.”
    “ The guard didn’t create you?”
    “ No.” He kept his eyes on me. “I wandered alone for a while but I am a man of science. When Neleh offered me the lab, I took it.”
    “ Do you regret it?”
    “ No.” He seemed to weigh each bit of information he gave me. “Neleh has never asked anything of me. All these years, until you. I suppose she always had it planned for me to create something to kill Dominick.”
    “ Why can’t the guard kill him?”
    “ They have tried,” he admitted, “but it is difficult.”
    “ Is he very strong then?”
    “ The guard is much more powerful,” he said without hesitation, “but Dominick always travels with his brother Damien.”
    “ Who is protected by Kiera.”
    “ Exactly. Damien protects Dominick. The guard won’t go near Damien. It would go against Kiera’s orders. And, as you know, they are bound by Kiera more powerfully than anything on earth. They can’t disobey her. They