Red Tide by Claudette Melanson

Author:Claudette Melanson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, vampire, coming of age, paranormal, teen vampire, vampire romance, paranormal suspense, ya paranormal, ya suspense, elves and fae
Publisher: Indie Author Project

I awoke a little more than an hour later, feeling just as annoyed with myself as I had when I’d drifted off. I could feel the old me, the person I’d always been, slipping away with every new day that dawned in our new woodland home. My time with Ron was taking on a different tone, a desperate one. I’d always felt the need to be close to him, but lately, the hours without him felt unbearable—leaving me lethargic and unable to function. I didn’t like the feeling at all. I’d always liked to think that even if Ron disappeared from my life, I was enough of a person in my own right to—albeit painfully—pick up the shattered pieces and move on with a satisfying existence, still filled with family and my own intellectual pursuits. Caelyn had instilled such independence in me. And I’d never confessed to anyone how much it bothered me that my vampire DNA relied so heavily on Ron’s presence in order to thrive.

At present, I slept most of the daylight hours away while he dutifully finished errands or projects for his elven grandfathers. At times, I would seek out a book from the elven library, but my mind wandered back to thoughts of Ron too often to allow me to advance very far in any of the texts. And I was starving…all the damned time. Even though the chorizo smelled perfectly delicious, without a hint of taint, I threw it back up after gobbling the lot down in a fit of hunger.

“That’s it!” Feeling even more hungry and weak after, I somehow struggled to my feet. “You are at least going for a walk today. Get out of this godforsaken treehouse, maybe even find some campers just outside the barrier who can offer you some decent food.” I knew I couldn’t pass the barrier. The vampire in me would prevent me from doing so without aid from an accompanying elf, and the cloaking spell over Siladhiel Elarinya would keep any humans from finding their way in, much less offering them a peek at me begging for food through the veil so they could offer help. “At least get out. Get some air. The forest is beautiful,” I encouraged myself further.

I slunk down the halls of the dwelling, keeping to the shadows and drawing the heavy hunter-green cloak over my pallid form, as I feared one of Ron’s kin might stop me from entering the free air. When, at last I cleared the front doors and rushed out into the close embrace of green and brown, a rush of adrenaline filled the empty spaces inside me.

I found I could even run, faster and farther than I ever meant to. At the end of my furious flight, I tripped on the thick arm of a root laid out across my path and ended up sprawled across the ground, the tip of my nose very nearly coming into contact with the near-fluorescent banana slug inching his way toward the cluster of leaves nearby.

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