Sanguine (Gods Blood Book 1) by Elizabeth A. Reeves

Author:Elizabeth A. Reeves [Reeves, Elizabeth A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Aedan had been busy.

But he’d been doing this for ten long years. Longer, in fact, than our sire had been hunting down human descendants of the gods and turning us into gods blood vampires.

I had the strangest sense that I’d been swept out of my life, told I was the promised one, and then told that being the promised one wasn’t special at all because I was only one of hundreds of promised ones. Not only that, but we’d all already been compromised.

It wasn’t great for the ego, honestly.

It was a good thing I’d been more or less already demoralized by Karen, Robin, and Wesley because the next place I had to go was to get my powers evaluated. Since I’d already offered an enormous immunity—to the sun of all things—to the great nemesis of my new Family, apparently, there was no real reason not to reveal everything to everyone now.

My brain and heart were organizing troops against each other. My brain understood what I was being told. I logically could see that I had been tricked and how I’d been manipulated.

But my heart kept whining about how Aedan must just be misunderstood. There had to be a good reason for why he did what he was doing. He wasn’t truly evil; he was just doing what he needed to do.

My brain wanted to drop-kick my heart out of the nearest window. Thankfully, for the safety and survival of my heart, the cave where I was currently living did not come equipped with windows.

I’d really fallen for it. I had believed so hard that I had told Dave everything. I’d asked my ex for permission to be with his brother.

Had they ever even been brothers?

I didn’t know what to believe anymore.

I was humiliated. I was too embarrassed to even talk to myself. Shame coiled up inside of me and started whispering nasty little truths in my head, making me want to be sick and step out into the sunlight all at the same time.

That only got concentrated when I had to explain to the team testing my powers about the theory that I might be the cure for vampirism, with the sunlight stuff in my system.

“We’ll draw some of your blood and test it out,” one of the medics said. This wasn’t Karen or Robin, but a vampire with such a practiced bedside manner he must have been a nurse before being changed into a vampire. Doctors, in my experience—experience I was remembering more and more now—did not have the same level of bedside manners that nurses did.

Doctor Cam was short, blond, and had a wiry ginger mustache that, along with enormous biceps, gave the impression that he should have an anchor tattoo and chug cans of spinach on his time off. Or maybe I reconsidered, drink elixirs, beat up Romans, and eat wild boar with his best friend, Obelix.

“It isn’t that a cure isn’t exciting,” he said kindly. “It’s that it’s rather impractical. You only have so much blood and there are so many vampires.

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