House of Cards by Waters Ilana

Author:Waters, Ilana [Waters, Ilana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ilana Waters
Published: 2013-03-17T07:00:00+00:00

She’d even managed to feel more comfortable moving through the catacombs when she went out with Lucas. Of course, she was always sure to keep very close to him, partly because she was still concerned about getting lost. But it was also because she harbored the tiniest, illogical fear that some of the long-dead inhabitants would suddenly reanimate and attack her. It was an absurd imagining, and she was very glad Lucas had blocked her thoughts so that he was unable to hear them. She didn’t want him to know the kinds of distressing things that ran through her mind, especially as they wound their way through the dark, sinewy underbelly of the city.

An even more dangerous thought, which she just barely managed to suppress, also kept making itself known at odd moments. Becoming like them. A vampire. What would it be like? Did she really want to, even if she could? To be given eternal life. To never get sick, or grow old and die. To be beautiful forever. Well, no, she wasn’t really beautiful now, so making her a vampire wouldn’t change that. But maybe she’d feel more beautiful. More powerful, invulnerable. To be immortal would mean feeling the beauty of forever.

The best part of immortality would be that she might spend it with Lucas. That was always part of her fantasy. Her family would still be around, of course, but she’d have to limit contact with them if she turned vampire. After all, she’d only have a few years to keep visiting before they noticed she wasn’t aging.

But strangely enough, she had grown more and more at peace with the possibility of their loss. Her parents thought she was doing just fine, thanks to e-mails sent by Lucas on her flat’s computer. And her former friends were preoccupied with their new, adult lives. Lucas said there’d been hardly anything from them in her inbox for a long while now. Most of the psychics had abandoned the square for the winter, as they always did.

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