Biting Winds by Shawna Ireland

Author:Shawna Ireland [Ireland, Shawna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2017-05-02T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

"This is a bad idea.” Thaddeus set his scotch down on the desk, walked over to the veranda window and looked outside at nothing at all.

His mind held all the focus, and there was none left for his eyes as he rubbed his throbbing temples, wondering how this had become his fate. The fate of his youngest son. He had been there for every celebration and disappointment for his boys their entire life.

He watched every milestone and helped them through every injury from scratches to broken cervical collars, and from first dates, to the death of his eldest son’s wife. He could not find his way out of this one, but he wasn’t prepared to give up either.

“Nothing good can come of this, Sangio. She will ride into town screaming that you are from the devil. She will convince the town folk that you must be killed, just as she tried to convince your own brother and father," Drake interjected, his voice almost pleading his brother to come to his senses.

“I am weak, brother. I’ve tried everything you’ve thrown my way. Nothing has worked. A blood transfusion is a feasible suggestion.”

But Drake was still shaking his head in disagreement.

“Is this it then Drake? This is our life? How long do we hold Hannah captive for? We take away her life for mine? This is absurd,” Sangio huffed with what little energy he could muster for this debate.

“She will not come back,” Drake stated.

“She will,” Sangio assured. “She professed her love to me. She assured me that she wants to help me and promised to return.”

“It’s too big of a risk to take. We don’t even know if it will work,” Drake argued.

“It will work,” Sangio tried to convince him.

“Why? Because the monster said it would?” Drake kicked over the potted plant on the side of his father’s desk, spilling black soil onto the ornate rug.

“Yes.”

“And you believe her, son?” Thaddeus interjected.

“What else do I have, Father? What is left to try?

“Then Hannah will go,” Thaddeus directed, despite Drake’s angry protests.

Hannah rode off towards town on Sangio’s prized quarter horse. She requested to ride alone because if someone spotted her going into the clinic, nothing would be suspected. She had a habit of going to the clinic all hours of the night to get supplies to take to Dr. Klas while he was tending to patients in their home or on their land. Taking another person with her would draw attention, and risk getting caught.

Had Sangio known that Hannah followed him to the barn, or seen the fear in her eyes when she overheard his conversation with the captured vampire, he would not have let her go into town. If he looked deeper into her eyes and saw the revulsion when he accepted her offer to steal blood for his transfusions, then he would not have let her go, but he was distracted by her compassionate offer, and that was the break Hannah hoped for all along.

Despite her love for

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