Breaking the Skin by P. Jameson

Author:P. Jameson [Jameson, P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paper Zombie Press
Published: 2016-12-05T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Lola’s body ached as they bumped down a dark dirt road just past the city limits, but her pain felt insignificant compared to what was happening to Hazel. She couldn’t take her eyes off of the Daybreaker holding her in the back seat, and she didn’t care if staring was rude. All decorum was out the window right now.

His words churned through her mind, heavy with warning.

He was going to turn Hazel into a Daybreaker. Using his own blood.

Lola’s heart fluttered radically at the thought. With her own mixed upbringing, she knew a lot about Daybreaker history. But she didn’t know it was possible for them to turn humans with their blood. Let alone turn them at all. The ability had been lost over the years, and had been tossed into the pile of traditional vampire lore that didn’t apply to Daybreakers.

Though they were often referred to as vamps because of their blood drinking, Daybreakers were, in reality, quite different.

They were born, not turned. Not since the beginning. Or so she’d thought.

The first of them came to exist by way of a light magic spell. One of a coven of three Sorcera was consumed by a seductive dark magic. The only way to save her was to break her connection to magic for good. To do this, they used her love for her bear shifter mate as an anchor to life, and let her die long enough to enact a spell to bring her back as something other. The result was a being that needed living blood and the power of the greatest star in the galaxy, the sun, to survive. What ensued after that day led to a race so prominent, their numbers were nearly equal to those of humans. Shifters, however, were another story.

“What was that back there?” Lola asked. “Why would anyone blow up the blood banks?”

Hatch glanced up at the rearview mirror then to her. “There is a faction of Daybreakers who have gone sideways. They don’t want to follow the rules of blood drinking, and they want to make it hard for anyone else to as well.”

“Skins,” Drak said. “We call them Skins because they drink from living vessels.”

Lola frowned. “Living vessels?”

“Regular humans,” Hatch confirmed.

Oh, shit. Here she thought her work at the bank had been keeping Daybreakers from going rogue, when reality was, some of them already had. And why? Just on principle? To be able to say, look at me, I can do whatever I want.

“Have they hurt people? I mean, before tonight.” But recalling what she’d seen in the dosing room, she already knew the answer.

Drak nodded sadly. “Many.”

Lola swallowed the lump in her throat. “They’ve killed?”

“Without regret,” he confirmed. “And I fear Tucson isn’t the only city that was targeted tonight. This was a structured, coordinated hit meant to damage as much of our resources as possible and force us into survival mode.” He glanced down at Hazel. “Now there will be another one to feed.”

Her head spun with the new information.

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