Possessed by An Immortal by Sharon Ashwood

Author:Sharon Ashwood
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Now Marco Farnese, vampire assassin, not only had a human woman and her frail child under his care, but a puppy named Custard, too. Interesting to know that the world still had the capacity to surprise him.

It made him uneasy, as if things were sliding out of his control. Perhaps he had let the penitent, doctoring side of himself run the show for a little too long. Or maybe he was upset with himself because he was enjoying this insane road trip despite Ferrel and Lark’s book and everything else—and he hadn’t actually enjoyed anything in centuries. There was a simplicity to his purpose. Protect the innocent. Heal the sick. Be the hero. Very few moments in his long existence had possessed that kind of clarity, free of kings and politics and their endless shades of moral gray. This mission was almost a gift.

They had passed through the stately beauty of the redwoods and were nearly in San Francisco. It was past time to get in touch with Kenyon and find out where one of the Company’s choppers could pick them up. Except he didn’t want the journey to end. Every hour on the road was one more hour when he belonged to this little family.

The fact that he delayed—well, that was the reason why he didn’t deserve a family. He was selfish. That had already been proven once.

Marco Farnese had been a young man about court once upon a time, with a wife and two sons. As he was neither royal nor as rich as his cousins, he had been given as tribute to the rogue vampires secretly terrorizing the noble families of the city. It was an easy bargain, in fact the Commander General of the Knights—the Nicholas Ferrel of old—had brokered it. One son of a noble house sacrificed to the pleasure of the vampires in exchange for a year of vampire-free peace in the city. Mark was a husband and father, but that weighed little. He’d been dragged from his bed one night, and his life was over. The rest was literally history—centuries of it. Mark had spent years as his brutish sire’s pet assassin, until finally Mark had killed him, too.

But all that had come later. At first, he had tried to return home, wanting more than anything to be with his mortal family. They needed his protection. He needed their love, some reassurance that he was still Marco.

His selfishness had been their death. Harboring a vampire was, in the eyes of the slayers, a burning offense. Ferrel had carried out the sentence, and that had started Mark’s vendetta against the Knights.

And now here was another family he couldn’t bring himself to leave. Apparently, he had learned nothing. That craven need for kind words and smiles was stronger than his duty to protect the very people he cared for.

He’d thought that needy part of him had died long ago. Vampires were supposed to be beyond such desires. Yet somehow Bree and her child had stirred those embers back to life.

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