Eternal Beloved by Bella Abbott

Author:Bella Abbott [Abbott, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reprobatio Ltd.
Published: 2020-07-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

We drove east on back roads until we reached the outskirts of Ellsworth, where Jared pointed to a Victorian mansion with a bed-and-breakfast sign. “Looks like they have parking in the back, out of sight of the road,” he said.

I nodded distractedly, still stunned as I tried to absorb everything he’d told me. Impossible as it was to believe, there were such things as vampires, and I was sitting a foot from one with no ill effect. Even more troubling, if it was possible for anything to be more so, was the possibility that I too had once been one, and was now reincarnated as a human.

And…in spite of all these revelations, I was attracted to Jared like nothing I’d ever experienced.

To say it made no sense was the understatement of the century.

Which raised another in a series of interesting questions.

“How old are you?” I asked in a small voice.

“I’m twenty-two. Like I told you. Forever twenty-two.”

“No. I mean, how long have you been a…a vampire?”

He sighed. “Can we talk about this tomorrow? Seems like you’re overloaded tonight. I know I would be.”

“I want to know.”

“Fair enough. We’ll discuss it tomorrow. I’ll be exactly one day older then.”

“Jared, you’re telling me I can’t go back to campus, that you’re a vampire, that there are hunters after you – and possibly us – and I’m going to be sleeping in the same room as you. It seems reasonable to know little things like how old you are.”

He pulled to a stop in the driveway of the bed-and-breakfast and turned to look at me. “I was made just after the French Revolution. My family was French nobility who escaped the Terror and came to America. I was made here. I’ll happily tell you the story tomorrow, but right now we need to get off the road so we don’t attract unwanted attention.”

I held his stare and didn’t blink. “When was I…made?”

“You were actually about a century older than me.” He gave me a small smile. “But I was willing to overlook the age difference.”

I laughed in spite of myself, but the sound had a giddy edge to it that could turn to hysteria without much prodding. “So you’re…over two hundred,” I stated flatly.

“We can go with 225 if you want a round number. But they say 225 is the new 20.”

“This isn’t funny, Jared.”

“Well…” He couldn’t help the trace of a smirk that flitted across his mouth. “You have to admit it was a little funny.”

I closed my eyes for a moment before looking away. “I think I’m losing my mind.”

“No. No, you’re not. You’re just overloaded. That’s why I didn’t want to talk about it tonight.”

I frowned. “Is there anything else you haven’t told me?”

“I have no secrets from you, Lacey. You can ask me anything and I’ll answer honestly.” He looked up at the sign. “But right now let’s see if they have a room.”

“You want me to go in with you?” I asked.

“Might be better if it was just you.

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