An Immortal in London: Corruption by Hardie Bethanie

Author:Hardie, Bethanie [Hardie, Bethanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw
Publisher: Bethanie Hardie
Published: 2013-07-31T23:00:00+00:00

We walked back slowly to Rainbow’s End. No one ever called there, considering I was never home, so it would be safe. I sat him down on my father’s bed and sat down beside him.

“Is this why you disappeared on me?”

He nodded and closed his eyes. “It hurts so bad.”

“Badly,” I said, correcting him, but shaking my head as I put my hand onto his forehead, “What have you done?”

He met my eyes and clenching his fists began to cry. “They killed her V.” And then I knew. I knew why he had really come back to London, why he had wanted me to call him, why he had disappeared. They had killed her, without having to ask I knew that they had taken his sister.

“It was you.”

Suddenly I felt the burning compulsion within my blood to feed him to hold him in my arms and to give him what he needed to survive. Jesse had taken my blood and he was paying for it tenfold. If a mortal fails to continue his supply of blood, he will eventually die the most painful of deaths. Judging from his complexion he didn’t have long.

“I’m so sorry, V, I don’t know what to do.”

I took my pen knife from my bag and cut across the palm of my hand. I held my hand out to him and for a second he hesitated. I opened the wound again as it healed and he took it greedily and gratefully to his chapped blue lips.

I held him to me and felt the rush of pleasure as my blood healed him from the inside out. He was of my blood, he was mine, and I suddenly understood why Gabriel looked to me as he did.

I wiped my bloody palm and put my clean hand to his cheek. “Your colour is coming back already.”

“Why…”

“Don’t ask,” I said quietly. “You should stay here until you change.” I wiped his mouth gently and smiled as I kissed his forehead.

I stood to leave but he took my hand. I looked down to him, my eyes searching his. “Thank you Victoria.”

“You owe me.”

“My life, V, you can have it, it’s yours.”

I kissed his forehead lightly and left Rainbow’s End and my blood child.

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