A Very Alpha Christmas: Over 25 Paranormal Holiday Tales of Werewolves, Dragons, Shifters, Vampires, Fae, Witches, Billionaires, Magics, Ghosts, Demons and More by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Raven Books
Published: 2015-11-16T23:00:00+00:00

Epilogue

It was a need for water that cause Ellie to stir from one of the deepest sleeps she had ever experienced.

“Ugh…” she groaned as she forced her eyelids to crack open.

Thankfully, the room was still dark because damned if she didn’t have the worst hangover. Her tongue felt as dry as the hardened, cracked earth of Death Valley. Turning to stare blearily at the clock on her nightstand, she groaned again when she saw just how badly she had overslept.

“I never sleep past twelve,” she muttered as she rolled over onto her back and threw one arm over her eyes.

She knew she needed to get up for something important, but for some reason, she just couldn’t clear enough of the haziness from her brain to remember what it was.

Ellie flinched as her right hand encountered something cold and metallic on the bed and instantly snatched her hand away.

What in the world?

Ignoring the mild throbbing in her head, she turned down the duvet to reveal—keys? No, not just keys. Two sets of car keys. There was also an old-fashioned silver-handled hand mirror with a red Christmas bow tied around the handle and a very familiar-looking white envelope with golden filigree along the edges.

She sucked in a sharp breath, suddenly remembering that important “something.”

“Val?” she called out into the dark room, grimacing at how horrible and gravelly her voice sounded, but she wasn’t at all surprised when she was answered by only silence.

It was two o’clock in the afternoon. Val was a vampire. He was probably asleep somewhere dark and windowless.

Ellie picked up the mirror and was about to put it aside in favor of Val’s note when she realized its probable purpose. She held it up in front of her face. Yikes! She really did look as if she had just been on a five day bender. She hadn’t seen circles that dark under her eyes since—who was she kidding? Since a few days ago after studying for finals. She was also looking rather pale. Not surprising given how much blood she had “donated” to Val last night. It was no wonder she was feeling so dehydrated.

But first things, first. She moved her hair out of the way, and even though she knew what she was looking for, she really hadn’t believed deep down that she would see it—or rather not see it. As a result, she could only stare and stare at the patch of perfectly unblemished skin on the side of her neck that had once held a puffy, jagged pinkish-red scar, a parting gift from a vampire that no one had believed existed except in a traumatized little girl’s nightmares. There wasn’t even a trace of the new set of puncture wounds Val had bitten into her neck last night.

Then something else caught her eye, and her gaze lifted to where her bangs were messily brushed away from her forehead. Where yesterday there had been a huge, purple knot, today the skin, just like her neck, was completely flat and normal.

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