Raven Hart - 05 The Vampires Revenge by Raven Hart

Author:Raven Hart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-12-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Connie cradled my head in her hands. On her face I could see a whole parade of emotions. The power of my love had gotten through to her, just as it had drawn her out of the underworld against her will.

"You should have killed me," she said.

"I know."

"I ought to be furious with you right now because you didn't have the guts to finish me off."

"But you're not furious, and I know why. You're the old Connie again and you value life, including your own. You know it's true, don't you?" I said. "You can feel it now that you're . . . back."

Connie's eyes grew wide. "I am back."

I felt myself drifting off again, but something in the back of my mind nagged at me. There was a reason I should stay awake. What was it?

"The nuclear site! Diana and the others are on their way there now."

"You mean you were telling the truth about that?" Connie asked.

I told her what the other vampires had threatened to do. Before I'd finished the story, Connie had the boat backed out of the slip and headed upriver. Although I wished we were in one of William's speed-boats, I happened to know we were on the faster of the two cabin cruisers. I knew because I'd just tuned this one up myself.

Connie set the boat on the right course and put it on autopilot. Then she kneeled down next to me again.

"You're injured. You need this." She pushed up the sleeve of her Savannah PD sweatshirt.

"No," I said. "I just need sleep. Just go up the river full throttle. If you see that other Thorne cabin cruiser before we get to Augusta, wake me."

"All right," she agreed.

The last thing I felt was Connie's warm lips pressed to my cold ones.

I dreamed about a toddler with my eyes and Connie's cheekbones and chin. "Come to Papa," I said to the child. I bent over and held out my hands, ready to swing the tyke up into my arms. I didn't know whether it was a boy or a girl, but it was beautiful. It toddled over to me and threw its plump little arms around my knee.

And bit me in the leg with its tiny fangs.

I woke up shouting and immediately felt a hand across my mouth.

"Shh!" Connie whispered. "I think they're just up ahead. What should we do?"

I roused myself and got to my feet. The sun had just set, and the photochromic tinting on the windshield and windows had turned almost clear. "You're right. That's them," I said.

"Should we cut the running lights?" Connie asked.

"That won't help. Blood drinkers can see in the dark, remember?"

"Oh, yeah. I'm still pretty new at this. How do you feel?" Connie gave me a smile that was completely lucid and completely human.

If I didn't know better I would have sworn that my own heart had started beating again.

"I feel great," I said. "Never better."

"Look," Connie said. "They're out of the cabin."

I took the wheel and steered it toward the other cruiser.

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