First Love by Helena Owen

Author:Helena Owen [Owen, Helena]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Love Books
Published: 2017-05-07T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Ava walked home quickly, curiosity burning through her mind, making her quicken her pace even more as the city blocks fell away behind her. Della LaCroix intrigued her, one minute an ice queen, the next coy and shy, and far too distracted. It was that distraction that intrigued Ava the most. What was on the woman’s mind? Ava knew the woman had felt an attraction to her, Della’s inability to hide her shock when they touched proved that, but she was trying hard to hide it. In an age when people had sex at the drop of a hat, Ava found it hard to believe the woman was simply being modest or old fashioned. No, there was something she was missing here.

Running up the three flights of stairs to her apartment, she threw her bag down and went straight to the laptop beside her bed. She pulled her dress off and sat on the bed, her fingers moving quickly over the keys. She sat back when she found no results, not even for Della’s name linked with her charity, but clicked the “did you mean Dellah De LaCroix” that came up on the browser. She spent several hours after searching the internet and found references to a Delya LaCroix, Delyah De La Croix, and other variations, all images and one newspaper clipping from the 1930s. Paintings and photographs, both in black and white and in colour, were basically all she found but each image revealed the Della she knew.

Thinking about the little she had learned about Della over the last 24 hours, Ava’s brain produced one word: vampire. Della had to be a vampire! She only came out at night; she didn’t eat, barely drank anything, and either had very strong genes and a family name that produced a mirror-image copy with the same name every few decades or the woman was a vampire. Ava had heard rumours that the creatures actually existed but she’d always dismissed the idea. She lived in a major city filled with people from all walks of life and she’d never met a vampire. Nothing else really made sense. She knew people could resemble their ancestors, but this was uncanny. So many, with the same kind of name was just spooky!

Ava pushed the computer off of her lap and went to her bathroom to run a bath. Sitting back in the hot water, Ava allowed herself to relax, going over the information again and again. She finally concluded that, either way, asking Della about her current status as a human being or vampire might be dangerous. She would have to bring it up at some point; her curiosity wouldn’t allow the question to go unanswered, but maybe it would be best to wait and observe for now?

Sliding under the water Ava let the hot water rinse away her thoughts and decided food and bed were called for. She was going to have some long days ahead of her with two jobs, and she needed to get some rest to stay alert around a woman who may or may not be a vampire.

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