The Light Keeper by Gabriella Lepore

Author:Gabriella Lepore [Lepore, Gabriella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paranormal
Published: 2019-05-05T05:00:00+00:00

ELANA

Chapter Eight

One Hour, No Biting

Jake writhed in the driver’s seat, groaning melodramatically.

“How long’s it been?”

I checked the clock. “About a minute.”

He groaned again, looking utterly sorry for himself. “I can’t go on. You’ll have to kill me.” He paused hopefully. “Or let me kill you.”

“No,” I said for the umpteenth time. I’d permitted him to nibble on my finger, on the condition that absolutely no blood was drawn. Now I offered him my other hand and he gummed my thumb pathetically.

“Kill me, then,” he garbled, his mouth full of thumb. “I’ve got wooden stakes in a box in the trunk. Put one through my heart. Do it quick.”

I patted him on the head as he slumped over the gearstick. “You need to calm down, Jake. You’re not actually a vampire. This is just phantom feelings, remember? It’ll wear off in…” I checked the clock again. Yeesh, had it really only been another minute? Time certainly dragged when trying to pacify a pretend vampire. “Forty-two minutes,” I finished.

“Forty-two minutes! I can’t last that long.” He dropped my thumb from his jaws and looked up at me, a spark of optimism coloring his tortured brown eyes. “Please, let me have a little blood. Just a drop? I swear I won’t get greedy.”

I wiped the saliva from my hand. “No,” I said, cringing at the thought. “No blood.”

He groaned and snatched my hand back, nibbling on the index finger now. “I despise Cedric,” he said in a garbled voice “Vehemently.”

I rolled my eyes. “It’s not Cedric’s fault. The side effects are listed right here in the leaflet. I told you we should have read it.” I used my free hand to shake the paper at him. “The elixir simulates a vampire so as to trick the demon into sensing you as one of their own,” I read. “Effects will wear off after approximately one hour.”

“How much longer?”

“Still forty-two minutes.”

He banged his head against my seat.

“Jake,” I patted his arm, “you’ll hurt yourself. You need to suck it up and put on a brave face for the next…forty-one minutes.”

“Suck it up?”

“Okay,” I accepted, “those were the wrong words to use around a fake vampire. What I should have said was, stop being so dramatic.”

“You think I’m being dramatic? Why don’t you try some and see how you like it?”

“Oh, that would be great, wouldn’t it,” I scoffed. “I can see it now—two idiots thinking they’re vampires, sitting in a car and chewing on each other’s hands.”

“Kill me,” Jake muttered piteously. “Kill me or I’ll kill you. Or take me back to Cedric and I’ll kill him.”

“No one is killing anyone.”

He nuzzled into me—edging closer to the scrumptious beat of my heart. I allowed him to rest his head on my shoulder, and he breathed into my neck, his eyes transfixed on my jugular.

“You’re so pretty,” he whispered to the artery in my throat. “You’re perfect.”

I craned my neck away from him. “Stop being so creepy, Jake. Maybe I should leave you alone for the next…thirty-nine minutes.

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