Fresh Blood by Faith Everly

Author:Faith Everly [Everly, Faith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2020-07-01T23:00:00+00:00

Ten

SOPHIE

At least I didn’t get knocked out this time.

I did feel a little dizzy, though. “What the hell was that?” I couldn’t quite hear myself. It was like walking out of a loud concert and having to wait for everything to sound normal again.

Dominic’s face filled my field of vision. “Graziella.” I could tell from the way his mouth moved that he was being very deliberate with the way he spoke. He knew I couldn’t hear him well. “It will pass.”

“What did she do?” I looked around. “Where did she go?”

“She fled the room when she saw what she did to you.”

“But… how?” I forgot to hate him. I forgot to be afraid of him. I even forgot to want to kill him.

“Graz is talented. We all are in our own way. She’s unaccustomed to having to reel her talents in, as she’s unaccustomed to spending time with fragile beings.”

“I’m not fragile,” I managed before wincing as I sat up straight.

“Of course you aren’t.” I might’ve been half-deaf, but I heard the laughter in his voice. “Come. We have to get you ready to meet him.”

“But where did Graz go? She was here one second, and then…”

“She moves quickly.” He helped me to my feet and held me steady until I could manage it myself.

“But how did she do that without touching me?” I looked back at the wall while touching gentle fingers to my head.

“As I said, she has talents.”

“This isn’t making sense, and I think you know it. Why won’t you come out and tell me what I’m doing here? Why are you the way you are? Why is Graz? Why are you doing any of this? Stop wrapping everything in this fancy language. Giving me answers without actually saying anything.”

He took a deep breath. “It embarrassed her, knowing she might’ve easily hurt you. That’s why she ran away.”

“But how did she almost hurt me?”

“Would you believe me if I told you she is a supernatural creature born decades ago with the ability to create shock waves with her voice?”

“No.”

“And there we are.”

“You can’t expect me to believe that.”

“It doesn’t matter whether you believe it or not, Sophie. What’s true is true. Regardless of whether or not we want it to be.”

“What’s real is what’s real,” I hissed. “You can’t gaslight me into believing otherwise.”

“So you weren’t just knocked off your feet by a sound wave caused by Graziella’s scream.”

“I don’t know what knocked me off my feet.”

“Surely, you do. You know she did it. You probably know she did it because she was afraid for me, watching you swing at me with that ridiculous poker. And you know what happened as a result. I’ll wager your ass hurts considerably.”

“Don’t talk about my ass.”

“How can I not, when it looks so good in that gown?” He craned his neck, looking around me like he wanted a better view.

“No way! You don’t get to talk to me like that.” Where was this coming from? “What, you think just because we’re on your home turf now, you get to ogle me? You still won’t even tell me why I’m here.

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