Blood Lily (Lilith Adams Vampire Series Book 1) by Jenny Allen

Author:Jenny Allen
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

A cacophony of muted voices and phones ringing echoed in her aching head. As she started to wake up, her entire body flared to life in blinding, mind-numbing pain. Her head throbbed mercilessly and her face felt cold. It was ten times worse than waking up in Duncan’s basement. A groan escaped her lips as her eyes tried to flutter open. The lids felt impossibly heavy and the bright florescent light blinded her. She heard motion somewhere to her right. The sound sent her heart racing. Her eyes flew open and she tried to move away from it, her body screaming in protest.

“It’s okay, Lilith. You’re safe.” The voice was soft as silk, soothing, but it wasn’t Chance. Finally her eyes focused for an instant on Detective Cohen’s almost handsome face as it loomed in front of hers and then everything went blurry again. “You shouldn’t move. You’re pretty banged up.” His steady hands reached out, repositioning an ice pack on her face as she begrudgingly started to relax into the soft leather of a sofa. There was a look in his eyes, something dark and haunted that made her think that ‘banged up’ was the politically correct version of the truth.

“Where am I?” Her voice sounded rough and husky, her throat burning from the bile. Still, it was nothing compared to the intense pain throbbing in her head. She fought down wave after wave of nausea and struggled to stay conscious.

“You’re at the police station. I was flying down country roads, following the GPS signal on your phone, when a red pickup truck waved me over.” She glanced up at his soft brown eyes and saw genuine worry and concern in them. It actually kind of surprised her. Between their odd conversation and Coffee’s comments, she didn’t exactly expect compassion from him. “I think you frightened that old man half to death.” His smile was so warm that it almost made her forget his abnormally small chin.

“I guess he wasn’t expecting a half dead woman to come stumbling out of his barn.” She tried to smile but it ended in a wince of pain. The stiff muscles of her face throbbed painfully and she remembered all the abuse it’d taken. First hitting the steering wheel, then Spencer’s teeth shattering punch, a slap so hard it’d probably left a massive bruise, not to mention the vicious head butt to Spencer’s nose.

Her tentative fingers moved along her cheeks, feeling the swollen, tender flesh. She groaned and let her shaky hand fall back to the couch. “Great.” She mumbled, mostly to herself. “Now I really look like a domestic abuse victim.”

Cohen bit off a snort of laughter and handed her another icepack for her face. “How’s your head?”

“It feels like I went fifty rounds with Mike Tyson.” The cold ice pack felt like heaven on her burning skin.

She heard him shift next to her, probably sitting on the ground next to the couch. When she opened her eyes again, his face

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