Blood Ties by Victoria Rice

Author:Victoria Rice [Victoria Rice]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Fantasy & Futuristic, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, New Adult & College, Vampires, Paranormal & Urban
Amazon: B00E1WI8AW
Goodreads: 18247387
Publisher: Books We Love
Published: 2013-07-18T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

I stretched, luxuriating in cotton as smooth as silk, inhaling a scent of lavender. It was deliciously quiet.

Cotton as smooth as silk, lavender – and silence.

The pillow was white. Mine was pink.

I fought the sheets tangled around me and shoved myself up against a headboard to find myself in a huge four-poster bed. Around the four posts were carved mermaids and mermen, curled around wood the color of golden oak, long hair spiraling up and down from the base to the very top. Behind me, carved into the headboard were dolphins, whales, otters and other sea creatures, some of which I’d never seen before, all entwined together in fluid relief.

Sunlight streamed in through rounded top windows draped with white transparent curtains. On the left side of the bed was a sitting area with an entertainment center and green leather furniture. To my right, a mammoth mirrored dresser. Every piece of furniture was in the same carved relief as the bed. One wall, between two windows, held a large painting of a rocky shore with sprays of exploding dark water forever frozen in oil. Another wall held a life-size painting of mer-people on rocks, in various poses, interacting with each other as if a moment had been captured. A giant glass jar, filled with seashells and fronds of long grass, took up a corner.

It was unbelievable, beautiful, unworldly.

I was in a house belonging to a couple of vampires – blood-sucking vampires. In one day, everything I believed, everything I knew of the world around me had been altered into some skewed reality. I wasn’t screaming, maybe I would later. I’d lay odds on that. Morning-afters were either bright and shiny or they were full of nastiness like a bad hangover. Of course, there were those days in-between. I was a hundred percent sure this would not be one of them. In the meantime, I’d play along until my psyche caught up, or I’d wake up from this bizarre landscape.

There was an open area to my left. I slid out of bed. It was part dressing room and a bathroom that ran behind the length of the wall behind the bed. Women’s clothing, probably Selene’s, filled the room with enough closet space for a family of six. Shoes took up half a wall. In a separate area was a bathroom with windows that looked out onto the south coastline. A large glassed shower and a Jacuzzi, big enough for four took up a third of the room.

Laid out on the counter were towels, a toothbrush and toothpaste, shampoo and conditioner, and a hair dryer. Next to it were a pair of my panties and a bra, all neatly folded on top of a pair of jeans and a sweater that I’d thrown on the floor of my apartment a couple of days ago. They’d been in my bedroom, picking through my laundry on the floor that served as my hamper aka closet. Nice.

I took care of business then undressed, turned on

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