Seeking Serena (The Complete Series Books 1-5): Paranormal Vampire Reverse Harem by Lily Levi

Author:Lily Levi [Levi, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-10-21T04:00:00+00:00

Serena

The sun pushed its warm rays through the double-paned windows below deck. The cold bodies of Theron and Ambrose flanked me on either side, unmoving in their soundless sleep. We had made ourselves a nest on the floor with blankets and pillows from the open berths, though I didn’t have any memory of doing it.

I turned my cheek against the rough fabric of the pillow and let my eyes wander over the sharp angles of Ambrose’s gaunt, pale face. His dark brows worked themselves imperceptibly together so that the perpetual serenity of his face was hardly there at all. He was dreaming or existing in some nightmare darker than reality. I edged close to waking him from it, but stopped my hand before it could touch him.

Perhaps he was fighting for me in his dream, protecting me like he’d promised to do. Would the day come when he would have to choose between me and his brothers? Undoubtedly. But in that moment, right then, it almost felt like a dream itself.

I was safe between them, Ambrose and Theron, and it had nothing to do with their strength. They wouldn’t let me fall if they could help it. They’d grown fond of me - maybe more than ‘fond’ - and their growing care pulsed cooly around me.

And I felt how, exactly?

Dangerously close to something I had promised myself would never happen again.

I turned carefully onto my side and reached out for the seat above Theron’s shoulder. I pulled myself up from between the two of them as carefully as I could and stepped soundlessly up the narrow stairwell and up onto deck.

The water glittered, cool and happy, full of a joy that I almost felt. The wind was full and the sky was clear of clouds. We were far enough away from America and anywhere else to feel almost safe. It was a strange feeling and there was no telling how long it would last, so I shook it from my shoulders as quickly as it had tried to settle there.

I reached into my jacket and pulled out the battered box of cigarettes. They shifted together against the thin cardboard. They were so few that I could almost count them by the sound of their shifting.

I pulled one out, lit a match against the wind, tossed the burnt splinter of wood into the waves below, and tried to remember the last time I’d had a real moment alone.

Everything had been a blur since that night in Chicago not so long ago. Well, more of a blur than it already had been. Time moved too fast and it moved too slow. I often felt stunned, unable to think or to feel the way I imagined others could.

It felt so much like the weeks and months following my departure from the Deadmourn Mansion. I hadn’t known what to think or where to go. I had let my instincts guide me and now I was running away with the same creatures I had run away from.

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