Call for Blood by Aurelia T. Evans

Author:Aurelia T. Evans [Evans, Aurelia T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
Publisher: Pride Publishing
Published: 2016-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

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She’d fallen asleep early under the vampires’ bite—much earlier than she, a night owl, was prone to. Renee wasn’t used to seeing a morning’s quality of light. She regarded it with some curiosity as she drank hot chocolate on one of the dining room benches and stared out over the lawn. Britt bounded around with the other dogs, newly freed from the dog barn to get their running, jumping and feeding out of the way.

“Are you okay?” Jake asked. He sat down next to her.

“Why?”

“You never came up last night—which isn’t worrying by itself, since you sometimes come in at three in the morning when we’re dead asleep. You weren’t there this morning, and you weren’t in the computer room. That was a little more unusual,” Jake said. “Ki found me after breakfast. And I can see the edges of your bandages under your collar.”

Renee shrugged, trying to bring her collar closer to the sides of her neck. She thought she’d put on something that covered them. She wasn’t trying to hide from the shapeshifters. She knew from experience that secrets didn’t stay secret very long in the sanctuary—not that she was annoyed with Ki for sharing. She was obviously worried.

Renee just hadn’t wanted any of the visitors to ask about the wounds, because she didn’t know how to reply. She’d have to wear a jacket.

“I’m fine,” Renee said.

“Your lips say one thing. The distinctly annoyed quality to your tone suggests otherwise,” Jake said.

“I thought you wanted me to welcome them. Accept your ‘gift’.”

“I do. Kind of. But you were suspicious for a reason, and you still let them bite you, even though you don’t trust them.”

“Have you been talking to Sebastian?”

“No, but if he said the same things, the witch has a point,” Jake said. “Do we need to stage an intervention?”

“A girl can change her mind.” She hadn’t, not about her suspicions. She’d simply tested those suspicions. She’d failed to prove they weren’t to be trusted. But if the vampires had done something to kill or turn her, then the matter would have been academic.

Maybe she did need an intervention, but she wasn’t interested in one right now. She had to think.

“You sure you’re all right?” Jake asked.

“I’ll wear a sign.”

“Oookay.” Jake headed out the front door, but he paused before stepping out. “You know we love you, right?”

Renee held her mug and couldn’t think of anything to say.

Jake sighed and closed the door behind him. Renee watched him go around the house to continue his work on the roof. He waved to Britt, who barked after him before going back to her play—which was just exercise under another name.

Renee sat there in the window, feeling bad, tired, ugly, drained and not herself—not the way that she’d loved not being herself with Grant. She hadn’t liked the sneaking around with him, but she’d risked the sneaking so that she could have what made her feel different.

She wished she could blame the vampires for the way she was feeling now.

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