The Study of Blood in Winter by Catalina Dudka

Author:Catalina Dudka [Dudka, Catalina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing
Published: 2013-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

‘This, however, seems to be certain: the ichor, that is, the material I have mentioned that finally becomes red, exists before the heart begins to beat, but the heart exists and even beats before the blood reddens.’

—Marcello Malpighi, ‘On the Formation of the Chick in the Egg’ (1673), in H.B. Adelmann (ed.), Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology (1966), Vol. 2, 957

Even the soothing sounds of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major drifting through the apartment did little to recreate order in the chaos that was Julian’s mind. The night before he had dressed and made his way home in a daze, his thoughts struggling, trying to make sense of his implausible experiences.

How could any of it have been real?

How could it not?

By the time he had arrived at his apartment, he had been exhausted and barely managed to see to his needs before collapsing under the covers of his bed into a deep dreamless sleep.

Here he was now, after consuming a substantial if late breakfast, sipping on a too sweet cup of tea while listening to Mahler, hoping to put his thoughts into some semblance of order. For all intents and purposes, the world as he knew it had been turned upside down, inside out and who knew what else. If he were to accept the events of last night at face value, then he had just had sex with… Who? What? A vampire?

He could not cope with that idea yet, so he allowed the choral voices from the symphony to flow over him, taking another gulp of the hot brew and grimacing at the taste. Julian downed more, knowing his body needed the calories after the energy he had used up last night, to say nothing of the blood loss.

The blood loss… He should be feeling a lot worse for wear, shouldn’t he? Last night it had felt as if he had been drained dry, wrung to a husk by wave after wave of insane pleasure. He blushed at the memory of it. He was experienced enough, he had thought, but the level of sensation and loss of inhibition he had felt with Danika were beyond anything he could have imagined. And this was before she had revealed her other self to him. Julian had been helpless in her arms. Under her direction, he had wanted to follow her every demand, then and now. Even after she had shown her true face and the extent of her power, the combination of vulnerability, fear and arousal that had coursed through him had been unparalleled to anything else. It had humbled him… Yet he wanted more.

His body shook, not with any health ramifications he knew, being familiar enough with those, but with a need he had never felt before. This was an emotional hunger to be touched, to be cradled within Danika’s strength, within her dark fire, which promised so much. Then he remembered that she was something impossible. The fact that his mind kept skipping over that bit was troubling.

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