Called to Order [The Order of Vampyres 1] (Siren Publishing Allure) by Lydia Michaels

Author:Lydia Michaels [Michaels, Lydia]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Siren-Bookstrand, Inc.
Published: 2012-01-25T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

The sun was setting across the beautiful Pennsylvania landscapes. Annalise had been sitting staring out at the green and brown patchwork of the earth for several hours. It was nothing like the urban parts of the state she was from. Here, there was nothing but land folded into more land, trees, and old farmhouses here and there. She looked toward the horizon, a small cluster of roads, some immeasurable distance away, so far it made her feel like a giant, able to pinch the tiny rooftops in the distance. She had no way of knowing if the homes she saw rested inside or outside of the property line, no way of knowing if the residents were like Adam and his family or not.

The only thing Annalise did know was that during the hours of daylight, Adam could not tolerate the sun’s intensity as much as the others. She had skipped breakfast. She woke up alone in their room and spent the afternoon dressing and readying herself for a day that was altogether frightening and unpredictable. When she slipped out of the house, she was relieved to find the kitchen empty.

She had walked outside and found a patch of sunshine to sit in far enough from the house. It was hot and she was sure her cheeks were sunburned, but it was her only shelter from the insanity she had been thrown into.

Gracie had come to see her at one point. Annalise had not spoken a word and only thought the repeated phrase, go away, go away, go away. Eventually the girl sighed and returned to the house.

Annalise did not want to talk. What would she say? She felt confused and stuck somewhere that even if she escaped, she would never understand. She would never be the same. It wasn’t like she could tell her friends at home about this. That would be a one-way ticket to the loony bin. She was living on a farm of Amish vampires. How insane was that?

When Adam first began telling her about his secrets, she didn’t believe him. Then he had sliced his flesh wide open and healed right before her eyes. She had been in school long enough, learning the basics of medical practices and common scenarios to know that a wound wide enough for stitches and deep enough to bleed a person to death did not just miraculously heal itself.

The age thing was not as much of a red flag as the healing. It was the twenty-first century after all. There were things like BOTOX and plastic surgery that Annalise supposed could make any seventy-something woman appear to be in her thirties. Maybe. She thought about celebrities who never seemed to age and figured the plain lifestyle and simple living contributed to how fit they all looked. That was the rationale she had clung to last night. Today, however, she had wondered if celebrities like Dolly Parton who looked better than they did in the eighties were actually vampires as well.

And

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.