Soul's Mark 02 - Hunted by Ashley Stoyanoff

Author:Ashley Stoyanoff [Stoyanoff, Ashley]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Amazon: B00ABR96CK
Publisher: Ashley Stoyanoff Books
Published: 2012-11-22T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Amelia stood in front of the window, looking out over the front yard. Puzzled, Mitchell watched her and wondered when had she changed so much? He wasn’t sure, but one thing he knew was that, without a doubt, she wasn’t his precious little bud anymore. She didn’t need to be nurtured or protected. Seemingly, overnight she had blossomed and transformed into someone much more powerful and magnificent than he had ever dreamed possible.

He had taken her for granted for way too long, looking at her as his, when he should have been looking at her as his partner. As he watched her glisten in the waning sunlight, the truth was undeniable. She was not his, rather a branch of him as he was a limb of her, and together they completed each other. To win this war he knew they needed to work as a unit. They would have to stop the fighting, let go of the past and move on—together. But the truth was they were at war. And this would be the ultimate test for him; he was positive. Would he be able to loosen his grip and let the pieces of their interlocking existence join together, allow their souls to fully unite? Could he suppress his natural urges to protect her and lead his troops to give her the room to grow into the ruler he knew she could be?

“You aren’t going alone,” he said for the thousandth time, but even as the words came out, he knew the firmness he had hoped for was lacking, and he saw the slight blush creep along her neck, a clear indication that she had been listening to his thoughts, and she knew his resolve was starting to falter.

“Yes, I am,” Amelia said evenly. She turned from the window with a stately grace and moved to his side where she belonged.

“Can’t you guys just eat animal blood?” Megan asked. “What’s so special about human blood anyway? Blood is blood.”

“Technically, we could survive on animal blood but…” Mitchell began.

“Survive?” Eric gaffed, cutting him off. “It’s not surviving. It’s more like sentencing yourself to an eternity as a mindless zombie.”

Mitchell couldn’t stop himself from laughing at Eric’s interpretation. He remembered when Eric had just turned and swore he would never drink human blood. It hadn’t lasted long.

Amelia’s raised eyebrow made him stifle the laugh and explain. “The reason our hearts beat, or why we can go in the sun, or how our bodies stay young and strong, is because of the human blood. Your cells and blood vessels and essentially the human essence provides us with the nourishment we need to sustain our abilities. If we switch to a lower form of blood, like animal blood, the first thing that goes is our hearts. Without the heartbeat pumping the blood we drink through our systems, our bodies start to dry up from the inside out until our frames are nothing more than chalky skin and brittle bones. As our bodies weaken,

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