Blood Curse by Crystal-Rain Love

Author:Crystal-Rain Love
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ImaJinn Books, Inc.

Chapter Eleven

Aria turned off the taps and wiped her hands on the towel hanging on the nearby rack on the small bathroom's wood-paneled wall. She'd vomited twice in the last thirty minutes, but she no longer felt sick and feverish. Her nausea was due to the memory of the images she'd seen in her dream and the remembrance of the smell of blood and death. It was so hauntingly real that when she thought of it, she still felt the prickle of tears behind her eyes. Rialto had lived that nightmare. No wonder he seemed so hardened, so adamant they couldn't be together.

But she wasn't an innocent like Antonia. She knew what Rialto was, yet . . . did she want a vampire's life? She still felt the pain of her parents’ deaths. Could she endure the pain for eternity, adding to it the death of new loved ones she would meet? She gazed at her reflection in the mirror hanging over the sink. She was pale again, white-looking. Was Seta right? Was she hiding from what she was?

Pickahoe was an awful little town for a biracial child to be raised in, and her mother's fears had been warranted. They'd left town the night after their car had been blown up, a week after their dog was poisoned. And it was all because of the black blood that flowed through her veins. But was she ashamed?

No.

She loved her father. Jesse Michaels was a warm, loving man. He had loved her mother with all his heart and soul combined, and he would have given her the world if he could. But the pair was doomed from the start. Both were too poor to leave Pickahoe. They never married, but instead had met in secret. Aria hadn't been planned, and if not for the uncanny paleness of her skin, they might have all been killed or driven out of town upon her birth.

Jesse had been murdered in his own home while a white supremacist group was passing through. The local police said they had no leads even though they knew exactly what happened to him. Everyone knew. Word leaked out Jesse was seeing a white woman, but fortunately Mary's identity hadn't been discovered. If it had, she and Aria would have met a cruel fate that night, as well. As it turned out, it was another year before the town put two and two together. It was then she'd realized that her first boyfriend, Brad, had figured out who her father was and let it slip that Jesse was seeing a white woman. The only reason he hadn't told anyone about her and her mother was because he hadn't wanted anyone to know he'd been fooled by a half black girl . . . until he got drunk at a graduation party and confessed all. One week later her mother had dreamed about them being attacked, and they'd boarded a flight to Baltimore with little money and no definite place to go. Aria Ayers became Aria Michaels, finally free to take her father's name.

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