A Hunter's Heart [The Hunters 1] (Siren Publishing Classic) by Suzy Shearer

Author:Suzy Shearer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Siren-BookStrand, Inc.
Published: 2014-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Actually, if Charlotte thought about it, things could have gone off badly but instead the kids had listened.

“Stuart?”

Charlotte was hesitant wondering what would happen.

“Fuck, Mum, this is so weird.” He shook his head. “I don’t know what to say. It’s so hard to believe.”

Charlotte looked at Matei. “Maybe you could vanish and reappear.”

He shrugged his shoulders. One minute he was sitting alongside her then next he was gone. A few seconds later he reappeared, standing in the doorway. He walked back to the couch and sat.

“Fucking hell. This is all real isn’t it!”

Charlotte nodded. “Yes, sweetheart, it’s all real.”

“There really are vampires in the world, sucking people dry.”

“Yes, Stuart, there really are.”

“Would you like me to transform into an animal?” Matei asked.

Stuart waved his hands. “No, no. I think we can safely say we believe. I don’t want to because it means there are horrible things in this world, but I can’t deny what we’ve seen with our own eyes and what you’ve told us.”

Matei spoke up. “Is there anything you want to ask now you know we have spoken the truth?”

“Where the hell do we start?” Stuart rubbed his hands through his hair. “Does this mean danger for Mum now that she is with you? I mean until she met you she knew nothing about vampires and was safe but now…”

Charlotte took a deep breath. “Actually that isn’t quite true.”

Katie and Stuart looked at her opened-mouthed in shock.

“You see, I had a run in with a vampire six years ago but I didn’t realise it at the time.”

“You what!” shouted Stuart. “How? Why didn’t you say anything?”

“Calm down, Stuart. When it happened six years ago, it was in the early hours of the morning. I was in bed, and although it all seemed real, I made myself believe I was asleep and dreaming. I never saw anyone, nothing sucked my blood, and it was just a horrid voice in my head.”

Matei spoke up. “When a vampire finds someone who is psychic, like your mother, it will torment them, try and make them doubt their sanity. Your mother was inside the house at the time and the vampire could not enter. They must be invited in. We think there must have been a Hunter in the area that killed that strigoi because he never came back.”

“And I just figured it really must have been a dream.” Charlotte was hesitant to go on, but she took a deep breath and continued, “And then recently I was being stalked by another. I met Matt when he rescued me and killed it.”

She tried to laugh. “Things come in threes, they say. The third time I was actually attacked and taken.”

She felt the tears falling as she recalled that awful night. Stuart stood and went to his mother. He sat at her feet. Katie came and sat alongside her, holding her other hand.

“Tell us, Mum.”

“It will be all right, Iubită, far better to speak of the horror than let it stay inside. We, who love you, are here to hold you.

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