Blue Blood: Pulse 04 by Kailin Gow

Author:Kailin Gow
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, General, Paranormal, Fiction
ISBN: 9781597489447
Publisher: The EDGE
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Kalina whirled around, taking advantage of Mal’s momentary shock. For an instant, her joy gave her strength. She forgot the stabbing pain in her right arm where Mal had twisted it, forgot her fear of Mal’s fangs and Leonardo’s stature, forgot her confusion every time she looked at the mysterious girl who was so like her, yet so unlike her, who was or was not her mother. None of that mattered now. He had vanished from her and now he was here again, and Kalina felt her entire body – from the pulsing of her Life’s Blood to the quickening of her breath – react to his presence.

She had convinced herself to forget him, convinced herself that she had indeed forgotten him, but now he was here again, and al her old feelings came rushing back to her. How she had loved him – in Rome, in Paris, those glorious weeks when he had treated her like a Renaissance princess or a noblewoman of the Ancient Regime, made her feel that the whole world was coming alive for her – just for her! With Octavius, Kalina wasn’t a scared schoolgirl, a confused eighteen-year-old girl with feelings and stirrings and desires that she couldn’t understand. He had always made her feel strong, feel sure of herself.

“Octavius!” Kalina cried out, loosening herself from Mal’s grasp. She felt that itself had collapsed, that the danger threatening her had stood still . Mal had vanished; Leonardo had vanished – and Kalina was spending eternity locking her gaze into Octavius’ flickering, iridescent eyes.

He looked more beautiful than ever, though – strangely, Kalina thought, for a vampire – he had aged. His customary military gait had turned into a bearing of haggard exhaustion. This was a vampire who had been through battle. She could see it in the tangle of his hair – once so finely kempt, now a mess of long curls. She could see it in the stubble around his chin. She could see it in the scars that now lined his face – the way he walked to minimize the pain of the wounds festering beneath his clothing. Normal human wounds couldn’t hurt a vampire – whatever Octavius had suffered, it had been in combat against other vampires, Mal’s men.

His eyes told the story of suffering: battles upon battles al through Europe, chasing after Mal’s lieutenants and second-in-commands, staking them al : losing his friends, too, to his enemies’ stakes.

Octavius gave Kalina a small smile, imperceptible to Mal but just enough for Kalina to feel his love once more fill her, to feel certain that he had loved her, he had been thinking of her – all those months when it seemed that he had forgotten her completely! He had been fighting for her. The familiar rush of passion that Kalina felt when encountering one of Octavius’ sired vampires – the Greystone brothers – was so much stronger now: the difference, Kalina thought, between a shadow and its subject, an echo and the note itself.

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