Marked: a Vampire Romance by Kate Rudolph

Author:Kate Rudolph [Rudolph, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-09-06T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Adam was a fool. He’d spent the last week pining after the huntress and hoping she’d return to the store, knowing he was even more an idiot for changing his mind about abandoning it. Each morning as he curled up in his bed just past sunrise, he’d close his eyes and let the increasingly erotic dreams take over. And when he’d woken up today, he’d been certain that if he only stroked himself long enough, he’d find his release.

But it didn’t work like that for vampires, and he was not fool enough to try.

He should have never taken her blood. It had been a foolish move after she’d left him, but it had been everywhere and he’d been so thirsty. All told, he’d been able to scrape together enough to get a good taste, but not a satisfying feed.

Yet it was only now, more than a week later, that the first pangs of hunger were starting to hit him. He’d have to find someone to sate it, but after his taste of Gold, he didn’t know how anyone would live up to it ever again. If vampires could become addicted, then he was well on the road to being hooked on her.

In an effort to keep at least some level of sanity, Adam had doubled down on his quest to find Okano. There’d been no sign of him since he disappeared at the Great West Hotel. Adam had driven down and walked the area, hiking into the woods and trekking around the abandoned warehouses in that part of town.

No bodies. No mutilated animals. No vampire.

But searching for one beast led him on the tail of another, which brought him to the Jasperton Cemetery at midnight on a Thursday. All the signs: two torn up raccoons, busted windows on a family crypt, and a lack of any other wildlife pointed to a fresh ghoul.

It was late enough that he was the only person in the cemetery. At least that was what he thought, until he heard footsteps heading toward him. Suspecting that it was a security guard, he ducked behind a tall obelisk just off the gravel path.

A moment later, his senses told him that it wasn’t a security guard. It was Gold.

He knew he should leave. She had to be back in fighting form by now and had no reason to give him the time of day—well, night, to be exact. But Adam couldn’t help himself. The urge to see her, to speak with her, overrode his hard earned sense of self preservation.

He stepped out onto the path.

Gold stopped and looked him up and down, smirking. “Did you come to hang out with people your own age?” She wore dark jeans and a dark top covered with a leather jacket. In her hand she held that wicked edged silver knife that she’d had at his house. Her blonde hair was held back in a tight braid. A warrior princess.

Adam grinned and nodded down the path. “I've got a poker game with an old bag of bones in a crypt down the way.

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