Desire by Blood by Melissa Schroeder

Author:Melissa Schroeder [Schroeder, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Melissa Schroeder Publishing
Published: 2012-09-08T23:00:00+00:00

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The silence that followed Nico's exit almost deafened Cordelia.

"Well, I see that Nico is not that different than his father."

Cordelia choked.

"Oh, there I am again with my plain speaking. It embarrasses Nico quite often." She walked to Cordelia, took her by the arm, and pulled her along to the bed. "Have a seat, dear. If you have any questions, ask away."

Cordelia sighed and blinked against the tears burning the back of her eyes. "I just don't know where to start."

“Well, I am sure you think we are odd.”

She felt a giggle tickle the back of her throat. Cordelia tried to clear it, but it didn’t work. The laugh exploded from behind her lips. Even she heard the hysterical edge to it.

"Odd is not the word I would choose."

She felt her mother-in-law's study. She turned her head to look at her.

"Ask anything you want, dear. I told Nico he should tell you before the marriage, but the Blackburn men are not patient. I've had seven hundred years with Samuel, and he still has little to no patience."

"You are telling me you are seven hundred years old?"

Adelaide rolled her eyes. "No. I wish I was. I am approaching seven hundred and fifty at the moment."

"And you have had only one child in all that time?"

The smile that her mother-in-law had worn faded a bit. "No. I had another son, Demetrius. He died along with his mate almost thirty years ago."

"So you do not live forever?"

She shook her head. "No. There are those that choose to go on, then there are those who are killed. A stake to the heart."

She said the last bit in a whisper, as if saying it would make it happen.

"You are telling me I am a vampire?"

She laughed. "Oh no, dear. You are a Carrier, the only ones of our bloodline who can birth vampires."

"Birth vampires? That sounds strange and slightly archaic."

"I know that modern literature has us as slaves to blood, that we are all Mades, and that we have no hearts. But we do. We are as alive as you and your friends."

Cordelia sighed and closed her eyes, lifting her hand to rub away the headache that brewed there. "I can hardly understand it all."

"There is a lot to take in, dear, but you will definitely be able to handle it."

She opened her eyes and could not help but ask, "How do you know that?"

"How? Why dear, you enticed Nico. I have to say I never thought that boy would mate."

"Boy?"

Her smile widened. "He is my youngest, the baby, and I will always see him as a boy."

"How old is he?"

"Five hundred years old."

"And you think I can handle a man like that? Handle this?"

The hysteria was back in her voice. A week ago she was writing for a column, and her only concern was making enough money to survive. Now she was married to a vampire and his mother was telling her he had been alive for five hundred years.

"You can. As I said, something about you drew Nico to you.

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