Intervamption by Miller Kristin

Author:Miller, Kristin [Miller, Kristin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Vampires, Paranormal, Fiction
ISBN: 9780062115737
Publisher: Avon Impulse
Published: 2011-07-26T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

“You will lose your mundane family to disease or tired old age. You will mourn their deaths. But as you live centuries without them, remember their lives, gloriously lived, in the sun.”

—Five Stages of Death and Not-Dying by Dr. Vango

They’d been searching the scrolls from sunup to sundown and far beyond. Rolls of parchment covered the floor in two stacks, one a mole hill, the other an overflowing mountain: unlikely and undecipherable.

Blurry-eyed and starving, Dylan flipped another roll of paper into the growing undecipherable pile. Sighing, she started reading another roll, then quickly tossed it aside. “Makes it hard to search for something when you don’t know what that something is.”

Slade looked up. “You think?”

“Are we crazy for doing this? I mean, the pile is getting bigger and it feels like we’re not getting anywhere. David probably took it with him anyway, right?”

Slade grabbed another scroll and unrolled it over his lap. “Right. But do you really wanna chance it?”

“No . . . I don’t.”

She watched him delve into their elder’s writing, his finger floating over words he couldn’t possibly understand. His eyes tracked fast, skipping over parts, she was sure, but stopping on others that may’ve shown promise. The idea that Slade was here for her when he could’ve been anywhere in the world with anyone else made her heart flutter. She only wished he didn’t look so irritated about it.

“In case I forget to tell you later, thank you for doing this.”

His eyes narrowed to scarlet slits in his face, his jaw and lips just as tight. “You can thank me when we find something. Until then I’ve done nothing to earn your gratitude.”

That pissed-off mug had been slapped on his face since they found the scrolls. She didn’t know why and he certainly wouldn’t say as much, but she got the feeling he was angry with her. Was it something she said? Was he as shaky and irritable from thirst as she was?

As she leaned over to grab another scroll, she caught sight of one lying on the floor under the furthest case. She stood up, brushing dirt off her backside and picked up the fallen scroll. Unraveling two-handed, her fingers working the edges like spider’s legs, she let her eyes fall over the first page.

Blue ink marks haloed passages near the bottom, starkly contrasting against the smudged blood scrawl. Ink dotted the second page too. And the third.

“Wait, I think I’ve found something,” she said.

Slade flashed to her side in a heartbeat. “Is that what I think it is?”

He swiped his finger across the bottom line, picking up traces of blue on his skin.

“It’s marked up,” she said. “And it’s fresh.”

“David.” His name echoed through the catacombs, a stirring that roused their hope.

“There must be something written here that gave him an answer he needed. Why else would he have circled these?”

Slade swiped off stacks of scrolls from the top of the case, making a clearing for the parchment in her hands. “Here.”

Even though she was still holding the scroll, his hands covered hers as he laid it out flat.

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