Smith, L J - Night World 06 by Soulmate (v5.0)

Author:Soulmate (v5.0) [Soulmate (v5.0)]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Ever since he’d awoken Hannah from her hypnotic trance, he’d been trying very hard not to think about the old days. But now, he found himself being irresistibly drawn back—not only thinking about them, but reliving them. Traveling back in his mind to the stupid young man he had been….

He hadn’t been the first vampire. He didn’t have that distinction.

He had only been the second.

He’d grown up in the tribe of Maya and Hellewise. The Maya and Hellewise, the twin daughters of Hecate Witch Queen. The Maya and Hellewise who would go down as the two greatest figures in Night World history; Hellewise Hearth-Woman as the ancestress of the Harman family, the most famous of the living witches, and Maya as the ancestress of both the lamia and the made vampires.

But of course he knew nothing about that at the time.

All he knew was that they were both pretty girls. Beautiful. Hellewise had long yellow hair and deep brown eyes. Maya had long black hair and eyes that glittered in different colors like the changing lights in a glacier. He liked both sisters very much.

Maybe that was his downfall.

He’d been a very ordinary fellow, with a good throwing arm, a delicate touch in carving ivory, and a vague longing to see the world. He’d taken it for granted that his tribe was special, that they could influence the weather and summon animals from the forest. They were the witch people, they’d been granted special powers, and that was all. It wasn’t anything to worry about.

And, like everyone else, he knew that Maya was doing experiments in the forest, using her powers to try and become immortal. But that didn’t worry him particularly either….

I was very young and very, very stupid, Thierry thought.

That had been the real downfall of the tribe. Maya’s desire to become immortal. Because she’d been willing to pay any price for it, even to the point of becoming a monster and leaving a curse on all her descendants. Maybe if Thierry and the other witch people had realized that, they could have stopped her before it happened.

Because Maya had finally found the right spell to achieve immortality. The problem was that to do it, she had to steal the babies of the tribe. All four of them. She took them out to the forest, did the spell, and drank their blood. Thierry and the rest of the tribe found the four little bled-out bodies later.

Hellewise had cried all night. Thierry, who couldn’t understand how the pretty girl he liked could have done something so awful, cried, too. Maya herself had disappeared completely.

But a few nights later she came to Thierry. He was keeping watch outside the cave when she appeared silently beside him.

She had changed.

She wasn’t the pretty girl he knew anymore. She was stunningly, dazzlingly beautiful. But she was different. She moved with the grace of a nighttime predator, and her eyes reflected the firelight.

She was very pale, but that only made her more lovely. Her mouth, which had always been soft and inviting, seemed red as blood.

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