Bathory roared with laughter, rose to his feet, and reached to kiss my hands, my cheeks, and he clapped Raziel on the shoulder with congratulations. Raziel, smart man, made sure not to look the vampire directly in the eyes.
“The finest hotel in Budapest for you, then,” Count Bathory said. “The lieutenant of the chief vampire of Budapest should have no less.”
I smiled at Bathory’s words, but I could not take my eyes off Raziel. Against all odds and expectations, my angel sat here with me, without his wings, confounding both the future and the past.
Our defeat in Poland had set us free. I was ready to give myself to my fallen angel, heart and soul. And Raziel, my man, was ready to take me.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michele Lang is the author of the historical urban fantasy novel Lady Lazarus, to which Dark Victory is the sequel. Like her protagonist Magda, Lang is of Hungarian-Jewish ancestry. She and her family live on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, where she is working on the final novel of the Lady Lazarus trilogy.
TOR BOOKS BY MICHELE LANG
Lady Lazarus
Dark Victory