Nephyrae:The Vampire's Cousin by Dee Ashford

Author:Dee Ashford
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-02-11T13:00:00+00:00

But she didn’t get up. And she didn’t walk away.

When they finally left the bar to walk home, out on the sidewalk Heaven leaned in close to Bronson and lightly rested her hands on his arms.

“I like you too, Bronson,” she said.

He looked like he wanted to speak, but he didn’t. Instead, with halting slowness he leaned down to her and brushed his lips against hers. She opened her mouth to him, and then he was kissing her more strongly, with a passion she felt as well. As he pulled away from her she closed her eyes, feeling him against her mouth still. She licked her lips as though to taste him on her.

“So,” she said. “What do you call the monster inside you?”

“Nephyrae,” he answered with one corner of his mouth twisted up. “It’s a mouthful, I know.”

From behind Heaven a voice spoke to them. “Most of us, we just call them monsters.”

Bronson and Heaven both turned to see Gloria standing there, her dark skin flushed, her eyes burning with hatred.

And a gun in her hand.

“I told you he be nothing but trouble. But you didn’t want to go and listen to me, now did ya?” She snorted. “Too bad. I kinda liked you, you know? But you got some horrible taste in men.”

The gun centered on Heaven’s chest.

Things all seemed to happen at once at that point. She felt Bronson grab her arm and start to push her away. She heard the gun go off. She felt a hard tug at her right shoulder. And, she felt as if someone were sucking her blood out through a straw where Bronson’s hand was on her.

He sped past her and she had just a glimpse of red eyes as he did. Then he was on Gloria, slamming her backward to the pavement, knocking the gun out of her hand with a hard slap. Heaven heard bones in Gloria’s wrist snap. The woman screamed, and kept on screaming as Bronson’s grip hardened.

Heaven landed with a thumb against the sidewalk and pain shot up into her hip. She lay there, dazed, confused, and watched as a grayish mist started flowing out from Gloria and up Bronson’s arms.

He was sucking away Gloria’s life.

“Bronson!” Heaven screamed at him. She was terrified. She was appalled at the sight. “Bronson, stop! You’re killing her!”

Bronson’s head whipped toward her and she saw the same thing as she had last night. A thing that was Bronson, but still not Bronson. He hissed at her, that long, thin tongue flicking out and shaking in the air. Then his whole body seemed to shake and his eyes closed, opened, closed, opened again, and the red color faded from them until they were Bronson’s clear blue color again.

He staggered back from Gloria. Crawled away from her, gasping for breath. Heaven watched as Gloria stirred weakly and drew a few ragged breaths. Then she crawled over to Bronson.

“Bronson. Hey. Bronson, we have to go. We have to go now.”

He nodded acknowledgment of what she was saying and lifted her up off the sidewalk.

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