Pierced by Keira Blackwood

Author:Keira Blackwood [Blackwood, Keira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-12T05:00:00+00:00

“That’s horrible,” Hannah said. Her expression was tender as she inched closer, though the distance between us felt endless. How she could look at me, I had no idea. I’d told her the truth. I’d told her that I was a monster.

“Did he live? The boy, Harry, was he okay?” Hannah asked.

“He lived a long life, without memory of the incident,” I said. “My sire did that for Harry—made him forget the attack, the mine collapse, the trauma of the entire day.”

“I’m glad he lived,” Hannah said. “Your sire sounds kinder than Walter.”

“He is. Though I would have killed the boy if it hadn’t been for Walter. For that, I’m grateful to this day.”

“Where’s your sire now?” Hannah asked. “Is he the blond that attacked my friend?”

“No,” I replied. “That’s Charlie, Walter’s progeny. Tyr is lost to us.”

“Lost?”

“Beyond my help,” I said, then steered the conversation back on course. “It was difficult to stomach the existence of vampires, or that my fate was to be one of them. But there was no way to go back to my old life. So I stayed with Tyr and Walter in their home, and let those I had once known believe that I had died that day in the mine. Which in a way, I did. And I learned what it was to be like this.”

“And what does it mean to be a vampire?” Hannah asked. “You’re fast, and cool to my touch. You’ve survived for over a hundred years, but what else? Do you have to drink blood? Can you eat anything else? Do you like anything else? And I know you said it was complicated, but how exactly is vampirism transmitted?”

I smiled. After all of this, still she did not run. “It took a long time to stop missing the flavors of food, and the warm light of the sun. I must feed to live, though I do not kill. And no one is ever turned on accident. It’s a deliberate process of draining the blood until there is nothing left, and feeding the body that which flows through our veins.”

“One drop does it?” Hannah asked. Her azure eyes sparkled in the moonlight. Gorgeous. Vulnerable.

“It takes more than a drop, and requires a burying ritual for rebirth,” I replied.

“So not just feeding, and not just a small amount from the vampire,” Hannah said, then looked down at the ground. I wondered what she was thinking. Without question, it was a lot for anyone to digest. “What about sex?” she asked, meeting my eyes with unwavering conviction. Only the blush on her cheeks betrayed her discomfort.

“No,” I replied. “Sex is safe—no pregnancy, no disease, no transmission of vampirism,” I said, allowing myself to smile just a bit.

“Good,” Hannah said. “That’s, um, good to know.” The gentle blush brought color to her cheeks. She was so beautiful. “Bennet?”

“Yes?”

“Why were you in the alley the night that we first met?” she asked. “I can't help but wonder what could have happened. Were you there to feed?” There was vulnerability in her blue eyes.

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