Kailin Gow - 04 Blue Blood by Kailin Gow

Author:Kailin Gow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Kalina gaped. As she saw Max standing before her, tight-lipped, her eyes downcast, she suddenly began noticing a hundred little details about her, things she had never noticed before. Oh, she had seen the resemblance there was no doubt about that but suddenly the little things came flooding in all at once into Kalina’s conscious: the way Max’s eyes darted so distinctively from right to left; the way she cocked her hair a few degrees to the left; the way her nose was slightly rounded at the tip tiny resemblances, tiny mannerisms. Was this woman Kalina’s mother? And yet how could she be when for all intents and purposes, this woman seemed barely older than Kalina herself! Kalina was eighteen; her mother would have to be in her late thirties at the earliest. And yet Max could barely have been twenty-five, aged though she was by the haunted look in her eyes and the gaunt quality of her cheekbones. Was this what Life’s Blood did stopped the physical aging, leaving in its stead only the psychological scars borne out of many years of running?

“You’re my mother?” Kalina felt her voice tremble as she spoke, trying to swallow down her nervousness. Max was silent, making a tremendous effort to look away, to avoid meeting Kalina’s questioning gaze…

“A mother?” Leonardo shrugged. “That’s perhaps going too far. After all, Max doesn’t seem to have done much mothering to you.” He laughed. “But she gave birth to you, if that’s what you mean. One Life’s Blood carrier giving birth to another. A very lucky event for vampires all round, I should say.”

Kalina looked from Leonardo to her mother and back to Leonardo again. She felt curiously numb, as if she had pressed ice to her soul. She couldn’t taste anything; she couldn’t feel anything. There was only a queer ache not even a pain deep in Kalina’s subconscious, gnawing away just beyond the reach of thought. She had too many questions and she had no time to ask any of them. Her mother was alive her mother had given her up her mother had chosen to give her up…Her mother had never looked for her, never contacted her, never even loved her.

“I’m going to need you to trust me, Kalina,” said Max, raising her stake. Her voice was calmer than it had been before. Gentler. “When there’s time, I’ll explain.” If there’s time, she did not say, but Kalina knew exactly what she meant. If they let Leonardo and Mal get to them, there would never be a time for answers. And Kalina couldn’t live with that.

“Leonardo’s quite an old vampire!” Max’s voice was thick with mockery as she gave Leonardo a withering stare. But Kalina knew the truth behind the sarcasm. The older a vampire was, the more powerful he was. And Leonardo was very old indeed”I’ll handle him.”

In an instant Max had launched a high-pitch wail a cry filled with rage. In the seconds that it took Mal and Leonardo to

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