The Perfect Kiss by Amanda Stevens

Author:Amanda Stevens [Stevens, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460361528
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 1994-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Anya!

The wind seemed to sigh her name as Anya stood on her balcony, gazing into the darkness. No other impression came to her at first, just that, her name repeated over and over in her mind in silent entreaty.

Mist rolled over the countryside, giving the enormous oaks guarding the house a strange and surrealistic movement. Wind ripped through the branches, animating the giant limbs. Clouds raced in the sky. The night seemed alive with unspeakable dangers. Anya felt frightened, and she shouldn’t have been. He wouldn’t follow her here. He wouldn’t come to her.

Then why the nerves? Why the premonition?

Anya paused, still and silent, as she opened her senses to the night, letting the wind bring to her the nuances of the countryside. There was nothing unusual to be seen or heard. A few dead leaves blew across the yard. A loose shutter rattled against a window. Nothing unusual in that. Nothing extraordinary seemed to be about.

What was it then? Anya thought with growing unease. What was wrong with her?

A shadow passed across the moon, so swiftly she thought she must have imagined it at first. The breeze picked up, colder now, fraught with some subtle undercurrent that made Anya shiver with dread. There was an evilness in the air that settled over her like a death pall. And it came to her suddenly that Zach was out there in the darkness somewhere. Close. Very close.

And so was Gershom.

No! It couldn’t be! It was more of his mind games to torment her, to keep her in agony until she wavered, succumbed once again to his lure. He was thousands of miles away, in his homeland, where his strength was the greatest. He would never venture this far, not for her. He would never risk weakening his powers. She would be safe, now that she had left Zach. Zach would be safe. The threat had been removed, and she was back in her home, where her resistance was the greatest.

But even as Anya tried to convince herself that what she experienced was only imagination, something changed in the night wind. There was something in the breeze now. A new scent. A sweet, tantalizing fragrance that she knew only too well.

Blood.

Zach’s blood.

She tried to deny it, but the scent came to her again, stronger, more demanding. Zach had followed her to the country, and now he was lying hurt somewhere, bleeding….

And out there in the darkness, Gershom could be watching and waiting and wanting her more than ever as he lured her with cunning precision from the safety of her home.

“Don’t go,” she whispered to herself. “Don’t go out there.” But the warning melted in the breeze. The scent of Zach’s blood washed over her, exciting the hunger inside her until she wasn’t sure which drew her to the darkness—her terrible fear for Zach’s safety…or her desperate need for his warmth.

As silent as the silvery mist, Anya slipped from the house. She embraced the darkness, letting the sounds and smells of the night guide her.

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