Blood Moon: A New Adult Urban Fantasy Vampire Novel (The Superiors Book 1) by Lena Hillbrand

Author:Lena Hillbrand [Hillbrand, Lena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Speak Now
Published: 2017-02-01T06:00:00+00:00

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Cali woke when the Superior reached into her bunk and grabbed her feet. She liked to curl up as close to the top of her bunk as she could get, where none of the roaming Superiors would come by and grab her by chance. But the ones who already knew her and knew where to find her still came.

When he bit her without saying anything, she knew it must be the Man Who Hurries. The other one always talked to her, and ever since she’d taken him out to the garden, he seemed to have a preference for that. She lay still while the Superior sucked on the back of her leg. He’d bite her any old place, not just in her arm like the Man with Soft Hair. She didn’t mind the leg bites so much, except when he got her right behind the knee, and then the little painful bumps rubbed on everything—the chairs when she sat down, the back of her leg when she squatted or sat on the ground, everything. And the Man with Soft Hair only took the lumps out of her arms, never her legs.

Cali wondered what would happen if, for once, she kicked one right in the face. It probably wouldn’t hurt—people said Superiors had no feelings, physical or otherwise. She didn’t know if she believed that. It would be awfully sad to never feel anything. But then, they wouldn’t feel sadness either, so it might be okay. Still, this guy had left her so many bites, so many sore spots. Once, she’d taken her hand away from the Man with Soft Hair, and he hadn’t gotten mad. She’d been tired, just stretching, but she’d thought he’d get mad. Maybe she could kick this one in the face and pretend she kicked out in her sleep. It would serve him right.

Cali gave a big sigh, the kind she’d give in her sleep, and turned onto her side a little. She drew her leg up and made another little sleeping sound. Then she kicked him.

He must have sensed her foot coming, because he moved away, and even though she’d moved fast, she only grazed his chin. Then—smack!—he slapped her thigh so hard that the sound echoed through the whole long barrack with all the bunks. It sounded like a bone snapping, or a wall snapping in half. But he’d had his hand flat, so just his palm smacked her. Holy sap-crap, it hurt. Her skin burned so bad where he’d hit her that she thought it might peel off.

Cali bit down on the inside of her cheek and tried to make her stomach stop shaking while he bit her again and finished sucking her blood. She knew she’d done something awfully stupid—she should probably be glad that he’d just given her a little slap. Or a big slap, really, but still. She’d tried to kick a Superior in the face. The thought of it was so incredible she couldn’t believe she’d actually done it. If her leg didn’t sting so bad, she’d have laughed.

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