Tegan's Blood by L.H. Cosway

Author:L.H. Cosway
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, vampires, urban fantasy, action, paranormal, magic, witches

Chapter Twelve

Let Me Show You Who You Really Are

It’s a struggle to open my eyes. They feel as though they’ve been glued shut after many years of slumber. The room shakes, and a shelf on the other side of the room breaks and falls to the floor. The cups and plates that had been on it smash to pieces. The noise is like a little shock of the mundane, and it centres me back to reality.

Rita rubs her eyes and Alvie simply blinks several times before gaining focus. Wide-eyed I stare at the smashed up plates in shock as though I’d actually gotten up from my seat and broken them myself. Little bits and pieces, red and blue and white.

I look at Rita, and for the first time I realise that she’s staring at me with a strange mix of fascination and horror. It’s stupid of me really, but while I was watching the magically induced reconstruction of my mother, I’d thought I was alone in my voyeurism. Though seemingly, I wasn’t.

“You saw all that didn’t you,” I say in a raspy voice. “Both of you did.”

Rita actually stutters. “Y-yeah, we, um, we did.”

I shake my head. “Well, you look like you know what it meant, and as per usual I’m as lost as ever. What was that – that spell my mother performed?”

“It’s, well, it’s something very old, and very hard to do. I couldn’t have done it,” says Rita, still a little bit in shock.

“Which is...” I prompt.

Rita glances at Alvie, and he shakes his head as if to say, This one is all yours, Reet. She sighs and rubs her arms as though trying to rid herself of goose pimples. She opens her mouth, closes it, thinks a moment, then says, “This isn’t my area of expertise. It’s more of – well it’s more of a historical issue. A vampire related historical issue to be exact. Your mother mentioned die Äußerste Macht, that’s German for the Ultimate Power. Some people call it the Extreme Power.” She pauses, and I’m still lost so I nod as a sign for her to continue.

“Well, my mum told me all about this years ago because it goes down as one of the biggest discoveries in vampire existence. I’m a little rusty on the facts, but I’ll fill you in as best I can. Back in like the late 1800’s there was a vampire scientist living in Dresden called Dr Emeric Beckenbauer. He carried out all sorts of experiments on both vampire and human subjects, trying to discover how one evolved from the other, what the biological differences were. The story goes that one night while out prowling for a new human subject, Dr Beckenbauer came across a young woman with a blood scent more powerful and alluring than any he had ever encountered before.”

“He determined to compel her to come back to his home with him where he would then imprison her as another of his guinea pigs. But when he approached her and tried to put her under a thrall it didn’t work.

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