Forbidden, Tempted Series (Book 1) by Selene Charles

Author:Selene Charles [Charles, Selene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: high school romance, paranormal romance, Urban Fantasy Romance, young adult romance, vampire romance
Publisher: Selene Charles Publishing
Published: 2014-11-30T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

It was Wednesday by the time Flint’s father finally relented and let her return to school, an entire two weeks since the attack. She’d kept telling him she felt fine, that he didn’t need to worry, that the doctors had cleared her to return Friday.

She’d been so bored that the thought of having Mr. Wickham scowl at her again filled her with longing.

Not to mention the dreams that hadn’t stopped.

Over and over again she remembered the woman driving toward her, the bite, Abel’s scream... and she remembered other things too.

Cain’s bloated and distorted face, his voice that’d sounded like it was spewing from the depths of hell, and his smell.

He had been there.

And there’d been blood. Lots of it. It had splashed her. She hadn’t seen what he’d done, but she knew he’d killed that woman. It should probably terrify her that he was capable of doing something so brutal, but she was a child of the twenty-first century. She’d been desensitized to the idea thanks to the uberhot Damon on The Vampire Diaries. And the other reason it didn’t bother her... The woman hadn’t been human. Not with the teeth and the eyes and that rotten stench of sour milk. The same stench she’d smelled on the girl who’d stared at her at her locker that day.

Something was very wrong in this town.

Hesitant to call them vampires, because she was pretty sure it would make her sound like some sort of whacked-out nut job, Flint also didn’t have any other word to describe it.

When she’d fallen from the tightrope, Cain had moved so fast she hadn’t seen him. She was pretty sure now why he used the glasses at school. Not because of light sensitivity—she’d seen him too many times without them.

But because something triggered his eyes to change from blue to red. She wasn’t sure what, maybe when he got hungry.

She touched her neck.

Her father was hovering over her in the kitchen, holding a mug of tepid coffee in his hands. “You sure you’re feeling okay?”

Flint glanced up from her bowl of soggy cereal, so distracted she’d forgotten all about him. “Dad, please, I’m bored out of my mind. I don’t want to keep doing homework here, I want to go back to school.”

“But, Flinty—”

She scraped her chair back as she stood and then deposited her half-eaten bowl of cereal in the sink. “Dad, really, I’m fine.” She kissed his whiskered cheek. “I’ve got to run, or I’ll be late for my bus.”

“I could drive you.” He stood up, his green terry-cloth robe hanging open in the front. He looked better than he did at the hospital that morning, but not by much. There were heavy bags under his eyes, and he looked like he might have even lost a few pounds.

“Dad, I’m not dead. You need to get back to living. I’m seriously fine. Okay?” She took a deep breath, getting ready to utter something she hadn’t thought would ever come out of her mouth. “Look, why don’t you invite Katy over for dinner tonight?”

He perked up.

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