The Unfairfolk (Valenbound Book 1) by Sara Wolf

Author:Sara Wolf [Wolf, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Valenbound, Book 1
Published: 2020-02-29T05:00:00+00:00

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The Nightrose (Or, How a girl breaks the devil)

So in the cold and unforgiving retrospect of four a.m, making a Dracula deal with Dracula Jr. probably wasn't such a good idea. Was Dracula Belgian? No, idiot, my phone says. He was obviously Transylvanian.

Okay. But that doesn’t change the fact Alistair now has my genetic blueprint. He can do all sorts of illegal shit with that. Number one being, like, cloning me. Which I'm not totally against because like any rational human yes, I’ve thought about it, and yes, making out with myself would be very sick, in fact. If I’m going to lose my first kiss to anyone, it better be someone who respects me. And really, the only person in the world I can rely on to respect me is me. You show up to class once in seventh grade with a tiny smear of nutella on the entire left half of your face and BAM - that’s it. Game over. People think you eat poop for breakfast and all your respect points go down the metaphoric toilet.

Sorry. Toilette.

Alistair could totally feasibly clone me, too. I know that because the first thing I do when I wake up in my dorm room bed with my bandaged hand is read Lionel’s note on the desk that says; ‘Please get your injury checked out by the nurse in Knight Augustin every few days’, the second thing I do is drink a refreshing glass of asscrack-o’-dawn water, and the third thing is google everything I can remember about the conversation pre-blood. The Girl Scout song, turns out, is just a song. No ghost-connections, no creepy nothing attached to it. Just a song, made by someone. ‘Red eyes scary singing’ gets me a shitload of very bad and very fake ghost-hunting videos. ’Seeing the future’ just gives me a fuckton of hokey occultist sites trying to sell me essential oils and palm readings. So I turn to something more concrete, instead.

Yanagiko - that word Lionel said - is apparently some big-time biomedical company based in Tokyo. It produces one half of all Japan’s medical equipment, ships a ton more overseas, and it’s heading some pretty prestigious Tokyo University-adjacent research into cancer mutagens - and hopefully, as their website reads, an eventual cure.

Yanagiko is headed by one Eric Nakano. It takes me all of two seconds skimming his google results to realize A. He’s an extremely smart man, and B. He’s an extremely handsome one. He was born in Seattle, attended Harvard at the age of fifteen, and got his PhD in biomedical engineering and his doctorate in medicine by the age of twenty-three. Even at fifty-seven the guy’s a bonafide hot toddy; super tall, dark slicked-back hair, gentle brown eyes, and a jawline to die for. There are a ton of pictures of him mingling with European socialites at charity balls and stuff. If you told me he acted in some Hollywood movie, I honestly wouldn’t even think twice.

But it’s his mouth that

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