The Huntress by Lisa Childs

Author:Lisa Childs [Childs, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781426865275
Google: OY4kjNTvdbQC
Amazon: B003U89S0C
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

Andre’s heart beat slowed with dread. “It’s my responsibility to kill you,” he admitted. “You followed me to Club Underground. It’s because of me that you learned of the society, so it’s my responsibility to eliminate the threat you pose against us.”

“Threat?” she repeated, her voice cracking with fear.

He stroked his hand over her back again, but her skin chilled beneath his touch. “There is no greater threat,” he said. “You are a huntress.”

She shook her head. “You were the only one I was hunting. Because I thought you killed my sister. But she’s alive.”

“She’s not alive,” he clarified. At least not like Eve remembered her.

“I saw her,” she insisted. “She’s not a ghost. She’s not dead.”

“She’s undead.”

She shivered again and pulled away from him to wrap one of the sheets around herself. “Undead? She’s one of the…” Her throat moved as she swallowed. “…society?”

Unwilling to force the word and his true identity on her, he just nodded.

“I don’t understand.” Her brow furrowed in confusion. “How did it happen? Did someone attack her?”

“No.”

“Then how—”

“She asked me to turn her.” And in doing so, he’d risked his own safety.

“And you couldn’t refuse?”

“I should have,” he admitted. “I put myself in danger. A vampire is not supposed to turn a human unless that human vows to spend her eternity with the vampire who turned her.” Some other vampires had broken that rule and not been punished, but as a Vossimer, he was held more strictly to the rules because his grandfather had enacted most of them.

Hurt flashed in her eyes. “But I thought you and Jennifer weren’t involved?”

“We weren’t,” he said, wanting to soothe that hurt and her doubts. “We had no personal relationship,” he insisted. He’d heard the vulnerability in Eve’s voice when she’d asked him about his relationship with her older sister.

“Then why would you agree to turn her?”

“Because I couldn’t let her die,” he explained. Because he usually only guest-lectured, he never got attached to students. But Jennifer had been different, so fragile and needy, that she’d drawn out his protective instincts. He usually only used those for the society, but she’d been different from any other human he’d met. She’d felt more like family than any of his cousins, uncles or even his grandfather. “She was sick. I knew it even before she told me.”

Tears streaked from those mesmerizing green eyes. “I knew it. I knew it had come back.”

“The cancer.”

“But she’d survived it before,” Eve said.

“Because of you.” Jennifer had told him about her baby sister. “Because your parents had you to use as her cure.”

She flinched.

And he reached for her, to offer the comfort she’d never been given before. According to her sister, their parents had never really shown Eve the love she’d deserved.

She pulled back and shook her head. “It’s okay. I know that was the only reason they had me. For my bone marrow. And it worked, you know. Jennifer could have gone through that procedure again, whatever she needed to do.”

“She could have,” he agreed, “but she didn’t want to put you through it.

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