Talisman 1 - The Emerald Talisman by Pandos Brenda

Author:Pandos, Brenda [Brenda, Pandos,]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: teen, paranormal romance, vampire, fiction, fantasy, suspense
Publisher: Brenda Pandos
Published: 2011-04-07T15:44:09+00:00

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12 - REVELATIONS

After I somewhat recovered, Nicholas helped me walk back to his car. The distance seemed longer than I remembered now that I was clear-headed and aware of my surroundings. By the time we reached his car on the other side of the meadow, I felt drained, wanting to curl up into a ball. Nicholas’ guilt made it worse, but I didn’t want to be away from him.

“It’s all my fault,” he said, after we got settled inside.

I looked at him, confused and bewildered.

“Why would you think that?”

“I could have stopped him if I was sooner. I was only in time to save you. She’d been bitten and... it was too late to save her.”

I closed my eyes. The scene was still alive, replaying in my head and the tears began. I fought the urge to run again; I would’ve if I had the strength.

“How could you know?” I said to ease his guilt. “It’s the animal-who-took-her-life’s fault. He should get the blame.”

Nicholas hung his head. I sensed his hesitation to agree.

“He didn’t get away, did he?” I asked with gritted teeth, ready to become a vampire hunter too if the filthy beast still roamed the planet.

Nicholas’s eyes tightened into a scowl.

“I gave him what he deserved.”

“Good,” I said, with a hard edge to my voice.

Finding out Nicholas avenged my mother’s murder strangely comforted me and made the pain soften for a bit. But after my anger subsided, I found myself even more wore out. In the last two hours I discovered vampires were real, the truth of my mother’s disappearance, why Nicholas avoided me and why he was there in the first place. My head felt like it was going to implode.

“But wait a minute,” I blurted out. “How could that be? You’d be only, what—“ I counted on my fingers. “Like eight-years-old?”

He paused and looked like he didn’t want to answer.

“I wasn’t eight,” he said sheepishly, “I was eighteen.”

“But how is that possible?” I said slowly.

“It’s because I’m not what you think I am.”

My stomach dropped and I leaned away to study his face. Could he be a vampire and just learned to control his bloodlust? He did have unexplainable super human strength and amazing agility.

“Are you one of them?” I whispered.

I cringed in anticipation of the answer. If for some reason he was, there had to be an explanation. He waited before answering and nervously shifted in his seat.

“I’m half actually,” he finally muttered out, his stern face avoiding my eyes.

“Half?”

“It’s a long story,” he said with a sigh. “I was born this way.”

“You don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to,” I said, afraid to pry.

“I don’t see any reason not to tell you, now that you know the truth.” He took a deep breath and the pain came close to the surface.

“My father is a vampire and my mother, a human. Most of the time, when a vampire falls in love with a human, the human wants to become immortal

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