Dead Magic: The Sanctuary Chronicles by India Kells

Author:India Kells [Kells, India]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-10T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Was it supposed to be like this? Cold and desperation insinuating themselves just as Violet was immersed in a sea of bliss? Love. This vampire who’d made her want to pull her hair and smack his smart mouth half of the time had said he loved her. And even worse, she’d said it back, meaning every syllable.

While he was deep inside her, she’d begged him to bite her, and she knew the consequences of biting him back. They were linked now, bonded. The legend humans spread was only partly true; as a magical being herself, she wouldn’t be able to turn vampire as a normal human would, but an exchange of blood during sex acted like magical shackles, binding them together forever. Well, for as long as one of them lived.

What would her poor parents say if they were still alive? Their cherished daughter, the one they’d died protecting, had succumbed to the very thing that killed them.

That very thing was lying beside her, but she could only see Finn. Although a vampire, and with all the darkness and danger defining him, he wasn’t a ruthless killer. He’d been there for her, cared for her, saved her even. He’d protected her every step of the way while accepting her for who she was. Apart from her closest friends, she’d never found someone who understood her like he did, and yet she’d condemned him.

Her eyes filled with tears when he opened his eyes and looked at her.

“Hey, Violet. Are you all right?” Worry clearly overcame him as he sat up fully alert, bringing her against him. He was naked under the sheet, and the cool skin of his hard body soothed her a little. “Why are you crying?”

The words were the hardest she’d ever had to speak. “I condemned you, and I’m so sorry, Finn. I shouldn’t have asked you to bite me, and I shouldn’t have bitten you back. I wasn’t thinking, only feeling. It’s so unfair to you. Please forgive me.”

Through the tears, his frown turned into a smile as he gathered her closer in his embrace. “I was scared for a minute, witch. I thought you were regretting what we had done, our bonding. Because I wouldn’t give it up even if I could.”

Violet tried to push away to see his eyes, to make him understand, but his incredible strength kept her caged.

“Darling Violet, you don’t know how many times you saved me, do you?”

She shook her head. “It was Valeria who saved you in that forest. I wasn’t there.”

His fingertips traced her cheek before pushing a stray curl of red behind her ear. “I know. Valeria saved me from demise that day, but not from death. I may not have planned it, but I welcomed being captured by those wizards. I wanted my life to end. I was tired, empty after centuries of living.

“Everything changed when she brought me back to Sanctuary and you appeared. Somehow, in the most improbable way, you pushed back what was haunting me, even if it was only temporary.

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