Nocturn City 1 - Night Life by Caitlin Kittredge

Author:Caitlin Kittredge
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2009-04-23T23:08:38+00:00

While I slept I saw Joshua again and I begged him not to leave me. Cried for him not to. Unaware of the sticky blood running down my shoulder or my nakedness in the back of his beat-up van, I clung to his hand and begged because I could feel him, under my skin, a need that burned me up. I didn’t understand it, but it hurt and I couldn’t bear to have him leave me with this pain.

Of course, when he turned back in the dream I remembered the reality of the night—the suffocation of him on top of me, clawing at the zipper of my jeans, pressing me into the stinking carpet and forcing my blood out through my pores. I saw the rampant snake tattoo on his wrist as he covered my mouth to muffle the screams. And it wasn’t Joshua who had run crying and battered down the beach road after starting the evening with stolen beer and the promise of a hookup.

I ran from Joshua and from the bite, and only later did I realize the horrible ache of being Insoli, and that the choice between being a slave or an outcast was the most painful one I would ever make.

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