Blood Shadow: The Vampire Hartwell by Phil Wohl

Author:Phil Wohl
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vampire series

Things were a lot different in the middle of the country for the Brewster family. Mary Brewster always felt like she was in the middle of a twister she could not control.

"Why do I always feel like a referee with a striped shirt?" she asked her husband Thaddeus.

"Let them play!" Thad implored like he did since they were young enough to go at each other. Thad watched them intently like any doting parent, and wondered if he could harness all that collective energy and turn the duo into a cohesive unit. The "changes" were about to start forming as their abilities came on line and then they came aware of my presence. While Thad had let his tracking of me go for a number of years, I could feel that he had reconnected with me months earler and would be leading a search party of three to come get me.

"Why do they always have to live near the water?" Thad grunted as he focused on the activity in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Emily and Calvin stopped wrestling for a second and she said, "How come we've never been to the beach?"

Cal snapped, "Because there ain't no beach to go to!"

"We should probably teach them to swim already," naive Mary interjected.

Thad thought, "Oh, they'll learn how to sink soon enough!"

It was a Thursday night, and aside form the surf pounding the shore it was quiet, way too quiet for my tastes at the time.

"It's been a while," I said to Garrison. "Do you still know how to do this?" I asked, wanting my protector to start doing just that.

Gary ignored my barb and explained, "We have to kill all three of them, but they only have to kill you to end each fight. I'll occupy Thaddeus and you go after those rambunctious twins. Use their enthusiasm against them."

I then looked out into the distance and asked, "What about your daughter?"

"The only way she'll learn is to get killed a few times."

I asked, "When are you going to have the talk with her?"

And before he could answer me, Sharon had zipped over and interjected, "The talk about what? Mon already gave me that talk!" she huffed, trying to make me believe that she was mature and ready for anything.

We both weren't in the mood to make a big deal about it, so Gary replied, "You are a protector, and we have to protect Mr. Hartwell over here, who happens to be a vampire!"

I played my part by revealing my fangs and wings, which caused her to gasp and step back at first, but then she wondered about her father and asked, "What can you do?"

Gary rolled his eyes, almost resenting being treated like some carnival freak. So he stood up and revealed his evolutionary tract: wolf, hippopotamus, Orca killer whale and bottlenose dolphin. He turned back into his human form and then sat down on an Adirondack chair and challenged, "Now you."

All of the confidence and false bravado drained from Sharon's being as I was able to see her for who she really was for the first time, an inexperienced teenage girl.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.