Tall, Dark, and Vampire by Sara Humphreys

Author:Sara Humphreys [Humphreys, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781402274060
Amazon: 1402274068
Goodreads: 15942629
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Published: 2013-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 9

Olivia shut the door behind her, leaned against it, and closed her eyes as she willed her quaking body to settle down. She shook with a volatile combination of lust, fear, loss, and anger from the intense events that had taken place in the past twelve hours. She had feared that by turning Doug, she would run the risk of losing him altogether, and her suspicions were confirmed.

He hated her. Hated what she was and what she had made him.

In addition to everything else, that tattoo on his back was a perfect image of the Dagger of Eternity. Why would he have that tattoo? Was it from the dreams with her? Had she shown it to him at some point in the dreamscape? Damn it, she couldn’t remember.

What the hell did that matter, anyway? His body wanted her, but that could be chalked up to the surge of power and intensified sensations that were common when a new vampire was turned. Unfortunately, in his heart where it mattered, he loathed her, and he wasn’t the only one. Right about now, she had a serious case of self-loathing.

Olivia didn’t blame him for being angry, and if he had been any other new vampire, it would not have hurt to have him look at her with disgust—but Doug wasn’t just anyone.

He was her bloodmate.

The evidence pointed in that direction, and when she turned him, any miniscule lingering doubt about who he was, or more importantly who they were to each other, was eliminated.

That small bit she tasted during their kiss in the alley had been nothing compared to the tsunami of emotion, heat, and life force she experienced when she drained him before the blood exchange. His blood memories flooded her in living color.

She was swamped by the loneliness from his life of self-imposed isolation, by the grief he felt when his mother died, the pride he experienced when he graduated from college and then the police academy, and the blind rage that filled his mind every time he saw a murdered woman or child.

His whole life flashed into her, his memories becoming hers in minutes, and finally, her heart beat in time with his as it slowly died out. During Doug’s final moments as a human, Olivia was truly alive and joined with him as though they were one. Her heart started to beat and her lungs filled with air—she lived as he died.

That was a first. She’d never merged with the others when she turned them.

When she slit her wrist and let her ancient blood flow into his mouth, Olivia expected him to swallow it blindly, as most half-dead people did—yet the opposite happened. As the first trickle of rich blood dripped over his tongue, Doug grabbed her arm. He clamped onto her wrist and held it greedily to his lips as he drank, while his other arm slipped around her waist and cradled her body flush against him.

She didn’t tell him when to stop feeding. He simply pulled away and licked her wound closed without any prompting.

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