Blood Will Tell by Colleen S. Myers

Author:Colleen S. Myers [Myers, Colleen S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Apparently, Roke was not of the same opinion. Isabelle expected him to return and found herself sorely disappointed.

Instead, Alex came for dinner. He didn't talk much on the trip to the boat but made up for that now. His words flowed around her as she smiled at him. But her mind was on Roke. Did all vampires have trouble with intimacy without blood? Jack used to come home covered in wounds with a weary but satisfied look on his face. Maybe she wanted to know how that felt. Did that make her a banger?

A hand waved in front of her face. “Earth to, Isa. Come in, Isa.”

“Sorry. Wandered off.”

“Care to share?” His tight expression belied his light words.

“Thinking about…my mother.” My mother, she had to be a banger or, oh my god, why didn’t I realize, they bit her. She was one of them.

He nodded and grabbed her face. “What about her?”

“I just realized how she survived. She has to be a vampire; my family is marked.”

“Yes, you didn't know?”

She glared at him. “Do I look like I knew?”

He bopped her nose and made a beeping noise. “No. Is it so bad, the thought of her being a vampire? That you could become a vampire?” His words echoed Roke's.

Would it be so bad? Isabelle had never given it a thought. It hadn’t been a possibility so why wonder about something that couldn't be? Like wondering if her mother survived the vampire attack so long ago. It wasn't possible so why torture herself? The slurps as the vampires fed on her mother filled her mind. Jesus, could she do that? Live on blood to survive? Could she really stand to become one of them, the people she had hated for the past years?

“Again, completely ignoring me.” Alex shoved his chair back and went to the porthole.

The screech as the chair flew back grabbed her attention. “Sorry, Alex, I’m a bad dinner companion tonight.”

Alex smirked over his shoulder then returned to looking out the porthole.

Guilt washed through Isabelle. Alex had saved her, and she couldn't bother to pay any attention to what he said. She walked over and put her hand on his back. Muscles flexed under her palm, and he turned and pulled her into his side. “Look. What do you see?”

She stood on tiptoe. “Nothing. I see nothing.”

He tutted at her defeated tone. “Look again. There is life under any circumstances. Even after everything that happened. Look. The world kept on a-ticking. People kept on living and loving and growing. Over there,” —he pointed to the left— “see those ripples, a fish just jumped and then was quickly gobbled up by a bird.”

With a grimace, she nudged Alex. He laughed and continued. “That is life. There along the banks. There was a deer. The world’s not changed. It’s the same as it was before the Madness. It’s the government and our views that changed. Not for the better, either.”

A hawk shrieked overhead as if emphasizing his point. For a second, she stood transfixed.

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