Aria and Will by Kallysten

Author:Kallysten
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kallysten
Published: 2013-03-12T04:00:00+00:00

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It’s funny. Even as Bergsen was toying with the idea of sending me away, Lorenzo was trying to convince me of the same thing.

I remember that battle; it was the biggest we had had in some time, bigger even than the fight that had led to my siring. It was sheer torture at dawn to have to leave the field to my human peers, chased away by the sun and unsure whether the demons would be stopped before they ravaged the entire town. Lorenzo had to drag me away and I raged all the way back to the Guard’s quarters. Only when he had closed the door of our tiny apartment did he say what was on his mind.

“Let’s go away. We don’t need to stay in a town that demons attack every night. There are still safe places in the world. Quiet places. We could go there.”

The offer took me by surprise, and I needed a few seconds to answer, not only because it was unexpected, but also because I didn’t believe anywhere could be much better than Newhaven.

“I can’t leave. Everything, everyone I know is here. Newhaven is home.”

Days after my turning, I would have done anything for him. All he had to do was demand it, and the instinct, deep inside me, to obey my Sire would have left me no choice. But all he did was suggest, and I could say no to a suggestion. Will was right, in a way. If Lorenzo had been older, if he had had any experience as a Sire, he might have used the power he had on me. As it was, all he did was look disappointed, even a little hurt.

“It’s because of him, isn’t it?”

He didn’t say Will’s name. He didn’t need to.

“Don’t be ridiculous. You’re my boyfriend. My Sire, now. I have no interest in him.”

Will is the only topic I ever lied about to Lorenzo. If I had truly had no interest in Will, I wouldn’t have been so worried that he hadn’t shown up for the battle.

Still, I tried to convince myself that I truly wanted to stay in Newhaven for other reasons than him. I went to see my mother, two evenings later, just after sunset, before I had to take my post on the walls. I didn’t intend to talk to her, but she noticed me, lurking outside, and she came out to talk to me. Or rather, to argue with me, as she did every time she saw me. She had never forgiven me for becoming part of the Guard against her wishes. This time again, she let me know what a disappointment I was to her, and as she ranted, as she told me that Paul had left Newhaven a month earlier and that she would join him soon, she never even stopped to realize something had changed.

I never had news from her or Paul after she left. She never knew what I became, and maybe it’s better that way.

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