The Fire Dancer by Kristen Strassel

Author:Kristen Strassel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vampires, cirque performers, time travel, bisexual heroine, fire dancer, dark fantasy, paranormal
Publisher: Kristen Strassel
Published: 2016-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

BLADE DIDN’T STAY AFTER the show. Honestly, I was glad he didn’t. Many nights, we waited until the maintenance crews left the theater and went back out to the stage. It was the only place that could safely contain the flames. But tonight his words echoed in my head. Maybe the emotion was starting to fade. He told me what he needed, what got him off. Domination.

And I got off on him drinking my blood. Did I submit to him, letting him drink from me? Was it not enough?

I had to stop worrying if everyone liked me. If I wasn’t enough for them, they could go fuck themselves.

Easier said than done.

For the first time ever, my skin burned with jealousy for another woman—his ex. He was hell-bent on destroying her. I wondered if it was that feeling he was after. Taking out another vampire, someone who expected to live forever. Getting her to accept that forever had come and gone.

I needed to make him accept that she was gone from his life. Forever.

Heading back to Cash’s apartment, which I still didn’t consider home, my heart ached for yet another woman. Rainey. I left her messages but she hadn’t returned any of my calls. She warned me not to get involved with Cash, and she’d been right. There was no way she could help me with this.

I stopped in the middle of the staircase when I heard a sound I didn’t recognize—a woman’s laughter. At first I thought it was in my own head. I’d been daydreaming about Rainey; could she actually be laughing at me in my own visions? Cash’s voice followed, low and melodic, and the woman laughed again. This wasn’t in my head.

Daddy had a date tonight.

Whoever it was, he’d play her like an instrument, getting the exact result he desired for his pleasure. Faking a cough before I continued, I braced myself for what I was about to walk in on. Cash promised me he wouldn’t change his lifestyle for me and I believed him. But no amount of planning could have prepared me to see my mother’s face in the living room.

I gasped, retreating from the couch. I was here, in the basement of Circus Circus, I knew it. All of Cash’s things were here. Cash was here. He couldn’t tear his gaze away this woman. Lust, desire, and disgust vibrated throughout the room, swirling in my head. I almost lost my balance. I just fed from Cash’s emotions for the very first time, and I wanted to throw up.

This woman didn’t look exactly like my mother. Her ivory skin was smooth, well taken care of, and slathered with too much makeup. She did a nice job on it, but she didn’t need it. She bleached some of her red hair blonde, and pinned it up similarly to Bette did for her performances. But her features were dead on. I knew them well, I looked at them every day in the mirror. Her mouth dropped when

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