Eternal Blood - Books 1-3 Wolf Shield, Sword of the Blood, Vampire Bride by Maria Isabel Pita

Author:Maria Isabel Pita
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: vampires, paranormal romance, fantasy, paranormal, werewolves, shapeshifters, romantic fantasy, fantasy contemporary

Chapter Twelve

Audrey looked around her. A delicate icy rain was falling and a soft mist enveloped her where she stood with a wild falcon perched docilely on her wrist. Glancing up, she could just make out fire-blackened arches open to the sky. She seemed to be in the ruined church where she had played and endlessly daydreamed as a child.

The bird abruptly spread its wings and took flight.

“Wait!” she cried, and then clamped both hands over her ears; her voice sounded as loud as though she was standing in a bell tower at the striking of the hour.

A man’s figure approached her through the mist yet she didn’t dare address it for fear she might go deaf. Lowering her hands she noted with relief that her purse was lying on the rocky ground at her feet. But glad as she was to see it, the joy that abruptly surged through her eclipsed all other emotions. It was Jonathan!

Grasping both her hands in his, he pressed her palms against his chest. His lips didn’t move but she clearly heard him speak. Feel my heartbeat!

She was getting used to this. What surprised her was how strong his heart was; even through his coat she could feel his slow, steady pulse… and hear it… that deep bass-like thrumming that seemed to come from everywhere at once…

It stopped drizzling and the sun’s rays began penetrating the cold mist. She knew the sudden change in the weather had something, everything, to do with how staring up into Jonathan’s eyes made her feel. She saw no restless torches burning in his pupils only a steady blue-white pinpoint of light she realized, as the fog lifted completely, was a reflection of earth’s life-giving star.

There was no doubt about it, they were inside the ruined church near her house in Ashbury even though only minutes ago she had been far away in Scotland, or so she had believed…

“That’s right.” Jonathan spoke out loud and she realized the fog’s strangely powerful acoustics had dissipated. “It was a shadow castle, real only for as long as you believed it was.”

There were so many questions she needed to ask they created a bottleneck in her throat; breathless, she entreated him with her eyes to help her understand what was happening.

“Not here,” he said as if he heard her loud and clear. Keeping her hands firmly pressed against his chest, he reached down and picked up her purse. “I’m taking you home.”

She thought she had spent hours in a limousine with Falkon yet she didn’t appear to have gone anywhere. She wasn’t really surprised, which was the most astonishing thing of all. When she was a child her father had sometimes brought out his telescope, and she was reminded now of how the slightest touch on the viewfinder either knocked the moon out of her visual orbit or brought it into full awe inspiring focus. Something similar had happened to her life—magical possibilities that had seemed too far fetched, too distant from her normal daily life, had suddenly become undeniable facts.

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