Bound by Sin

Author:Jenna Maclaine [Maclaine, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror & Ghost Stories
Published: 2010-05-21T18:02:18.704000+00:00

CHAPTER 28

It didn’t take me long to overtake her. My vampire speed was no match for a human and I arrived at the cottage in a fraction of the time it would take Pandora to get there. I stopped and listened, not wanting to frighten the entire household just in case the boy had been mistaken. At the sound of a muffled cry from inside the house I gained the porch in one leap and kicked in the front door. Unfortunately for Robert McCready, I now owned Kenneway Plantation and every building on it. It meant that I could enter his house without an invitation, and enter it I did.

McCready jumped up from his crouched position over the sofa. In one glance I took in Cassandra’s tearstained face and her pretty flowered dress, which was now torn at the shoulder. The girl jerked the hem of her dress down and scooted backward until she was wedged against the arm of the sofa, as far away from us as she could get. Her large, dark eyes darted from McCready to me and back again. Robert McCready held his hands up in front of him, his ruddy face flushed with exertion or embarrassment, I wasn’t certain which.

“This ain’t what it looks like,” he said.

With a growl of outrage I sprang forward and grabbed the front of his shirt, throwing him bodily through the front door. He flew through the air, landing on his back in the front yard. I turned to Cassandra.

“Did he hurt you?” I asked, barely able to contain my anger long enough to not frighten her further. She shook her head. “No, miss,” she replied softly. “Not this time.”

Not this time. By the gods, she was only a child and a slave girl completely under his power, as well. In that moment whatever control I had over my temper and my black magic snapped. I felt the darkness rise up inside me, turning my brown eyes to black with its power. I stalked to the edge of the porch and looked down at Mr. McCready as he picked himself up off the ground.

“You bitch!” he spat. “What I do in my own house ain’t none of your damned business!”

“What you do with my people is entirely my business, Mr. McCready,” I replied coldly. I’m not sure what he saw in my eyes, but whatever it was it made him reach for the pistol at his hip. I smiled and sprang from the porch. The darkness inside me swirled jubilantly at the sound of his screams. It fed on blood and death, growing stronger as I tapped the vein in McCready’s neck and his hot blood spilled into my mouth. I could have killed him with black magic alone. For a moment I let the darkness travel across my skin. It would be so easy to simply hold him down and allow the magic to suck the life from him, leaving nothing more behind than bone and ashes. But tonight the darkness wanted blood and just this once I wasn’t adverse to playing with my food.

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