Blood Red Kiss: A Vampire Romance by Jade West

Author:Jade West [West, Jade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-11-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

I waved goodbye to Margaret and George. She looked so happy for me as I walked through Regency with my vampire lover, and I’m sure I looked very happy for her in return. It was wonderful to see them reunited. A couple still in love after a lifetime, despite what George might have been up to in this world.

“Will I get to speak to her again?” I asked Hans as we reached the exit.

“Quite possibly. It depends when they take the road into the light. Some couples prefer to live out the ghost of their past for as long as they possibly can. Margaret will be well aware of their options. She’s been waiting for George a long time.”

“Margaret seems a really nice woman, it would be great to get to know her.”

Hans looked at me as he took my hand. “She’d make a great start to your circle of ghostly acquaintances.”

I saw our taxi waiting on the road outside the club and squeezed his fingers.

“Hopefully I’ll be better friends with ghosts than I’ve been with people. The bar isn’t all that high.”

He opened the taxi door for me.

“Orcop is a small village. Your options were limited there.”

“They probably always will be in Orcop. I’m sure glad I moved to London.”

“Perhaps you felt compelled to move here,” he said as he slid into the seat beside me.

“Yeah, you could say that,” I said, and then it clicked. Hans had always been in the shadows, beckoning me. London sure was a beguiling place, even more so when a vampire wants you there.

The driver turned to face us before I could ask Hans to elaborate.

“Where are you heading?”

“Ashwell,” Hans told him. “Hertfordshire. The Manor of St Louis.”

All thoughts of Margaret and George were pushed aside at the mention of our destination. I’d heard of Ashwell before. I’d seen it in online searches when I was dreaming up my perfect future. It was one of the posh quaint villages outside London. It gave me a buzz just thinking about it. A posh little village hiding a blood house. I couldn’t wait to get there.

“Sounds exciting,” I said.

“Excitement is guaranteed,” Hans assured me.

The world outside the cab windows was alive with a new sense of life for me as we pulled away. I was fascinated by every streetlamp, and every single figure we passed on the roadside, transfixed by the dance of energy I’d never seen before. It was crazy, wild. Otherworldly in the most fantastical of ways.

“It will take some adjusting to,” Hans said. “Don’t worry. You will get used to it.”

I didn’t need his assurances. I was filled with a sense of confidence – stemming from a side of myself I’d never been able to know.

“Did you know I was blocked from myself?” I asked Hans. “Right from a little girl, I mean.”

“I knew your mother and grandmother were trying to block you from yourself, yes.”

“Did you know they were succeeding?”

“I knew they wouldn’t succeed for ever, and that’s all that mattered.

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