Nocturne 029 - HOLIDAY WITH A VAMPIRE 01 - Maureen Child - Christmas Cravings by Silhouette Nocturne

Author:Silhouette Nocturne [Nocturne, Silhouette]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-01-16T23:16:38+00:00

Chapter 7

F or the next two days, Tessa walked around in a sort of fog. She baked and cleaned and decorated in a determined frenzy designed to keep her fear at bay. But it was always there. Just under the surface. She stepped out onto her porch and wondered if someone—Justin—was out there looking back at her. When her phone rang, she jumped. When a car backfired on the road, her heart jolted. When the col ege student who’d arrived the night before surprised her in the kitchen, she had shrieked and dropped a pan of cinnamon rol s. Her nerves were strained to the breaking point and there was no way to ease the tension. She’d lived with fear for so long that feeling it wrap itself around her now was like meeting up with an old enemy.

Chil ing, yet somehow familiar.

And her vampire bodyguard—who would have ever thought she could say those words?—scarcely left her alone. Wel , except for those hours when he was trapped within the secret room. But even then, she felt his presence. His power, reaching for her. As if even in his absence he was letting her know she wasn’t alone. And she wondered what exactly she would do when he left. How would she live without being aware of him? Without feeling him in some corner of her mind? Her soul? There was a deep, undeniable connection between them, though Tessa couldn’t understand how it had started. And she knew it couldn’t end wel . She was human. He wasn’t. She would eventual y grow old and die and he would stil look as he did today. As he had for more than a hundred years.

So why then, she demanded of herself, did she spend so damned much time thinking about him? Because, she thought, it was much more agreeable than considering the possibility that Justin had final y found her.

But it was more than that, too. Knowing Grayson was here gave her a sense of safety that she hadn’t known in far too long. Which was weird in itself, when she thought about it. Having a vampire around shouldn’t make her feel safe. And yet…

It was stil the middle of the day, but the snow was fal ing in a steady sheet of white beyond the kitchen windows. According to the weather report, this new storm would be dumping up to two feet of snow by morning, and would effectively close the roads. Which meant the guests she had been expecting tomorrow afternoon wouldn’t be arriving. So as soon as the col ege student upstairs checked out, her B and B would be empty, but for her and Grayson.

A chil swept along her spine and it had nothing to do with fear. Little by little, she was losing her grip on the nice, normal world she’d built for herself. And at the moment, the only stable point in her little universe was a vampire. How insane was that?

She’d begun counting down the daylight hours…waiting for sundown.

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