Free Vampire Apocalypse (The Arcadia Falls Chronicles #3) by Jennifer Malone Wright

is
true, then yes, it’s totally possible.”
    “ There are a few things we
need to discuss before we get too excited, though.” Drew rubbed his
forehead like he always did when he was stressed out. “First of
all, he only knows where Korina is. That is only one bloodline, but
it can still take out a huge majority of them.”
    Christina had gotten up during his
story and stood by the window, flipping her giant knife around like
a baton. “Well, I don’t understand why we don’t just take out
Anthony, too.”
    “ Good question,” Drew
complimented her. “Two reasons, one is that he can help us find the
remaining vampires, since he knows them. The second reason is a bit
more complicated. We can’t prove it, but Anthony says that Trevor
was of his line, which in turn …”
    “ Makes Chloe and I at risk
to die if you kill him,” Zander finished for him.
    I nodded. “Yes. Exactly.”
    “ Shit.” He bowed his head
down into his hands.
    Gavin spoke up before anyone else had
the chance. “Yeah, that’s not going to happen. We can’t risk
it.”
    “ We risk our lives every
day,” I told him. “Each time we leave this house to go fight the
vampires we take the chance that we might not come
back.”
    Luke shook his head. “No, it doesn’t
matter. Anthony stays alive then.”
    I threw my hands up in the air. “We
don’t even know if he is telling the truth about this. He could be
making it up just to save himself.”
    Gavin glared at me. “Not. Gonna.
Happen.”
    I sighed. I knew they were all going
to feel like this. “Another thing we haven’t thought about is that
Zander and I are only half vampire, the concept of the line falling
might not work on us because we were born, not made.”
    “I can probably find a blood spell
somewhere, but we won’t be able to do it unless we can get some of
his blood. That will determine if Chloe, Zander and Anthony share
the same bloodline.”
    Alice appeared thoughtful as she
spoke, as if she were already searching the spell books in her
mind
    “ You can do that kind of
thing.” Christina questioned, her eyes wide.
    Alice nodded. “Of course.”
    Oscar leaned forward and flipped the
pages of one of the magazines on the coffee table. “It’s strange
that he would want to help in the first place.”
    “ I thought the same thing,”
Drew agreed. “I feel that he is genuine in wanting to get rid of
the other lines. He says he is willing to give himself up, but he
did go through some trouble to find Chloe and let her know that if
he dies then she possibly could, too. That sounds like something a
person would do to protect themselves.”
    Luke held his hands up. “Let’s take
this one step at a time. The first thing we should concentrate on
is finding the other lines. We can worry about Anthony Christos and
his bloodline later. For now, we have the opportunity to take out,
at the very least, one other line. If Dahlia is of Korina’s line,
this should eliminate a large majority of the vampires who have
taken over the city.”
    Drew raised his eyebrows. “So, we go
to New Orleans?”
    Luke nodded. “We have to. Getting into
New Orleans is not going to be easy, though. All of the cities are
guarded.”
    I hadn’t thought about that
part. What I had thought about was that if it was bad here, it had to be worse
in New Orleans. Vampires there just walked around out in the open
all the time, even before the attacks began.
    “ I also think it might be
better if we do not tell The Board about this,” Luke
added.
    Suddenly there was a heavy silence
that hung heavy in the room. No one seemed to know what to say. I
know I didn’t. Luke wasn’t really a member of The Board
anymore—they had pretty much booted him off for endorsing our
infiltration of the Talon Building—but he was still a Hunter and he
almost always went to them with important information. I guess he
was more peeved about them not backing him with the Talon Building
than I thought he was.
    Drew was the