The Viscount's Son (The Viscount's Son Trilogy Book 1) by Aderyn Wood

Author:Aderyn Wood [Wood, Aderyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aderyn Wood
Published: 2013-03-28T04:00:00+00:00

Em.

Twelfth Translation

I walked the King’s road that leads out of my village. Dawn fast approached and a great hunger arose within me.

I staggered to a farmhouse. A milkmaid walked toward me, her hand clutching a pail. The cows panicked and moved away, no doubt sensing the monster that lurked too close. The girl tried in vain to control them. I eyed her in the darkness, the way a wolf spies its prey. She was plump, white, innocent. When she saw me her eyes widened in fear and it thrilled me. I wanted her to scream. I reached for her and she ran. The thrill of the chase exhilarated me.

I had her in a few quick paces. My speed and strength were superior. She struggled in my arms, but I held her still and marvelled at the gleam of her milky white throat in the moonlight. I can still remember her scent of butter, youth and sweetness.

My vision blurred, then sharpened, and all at once I could see the red hue of blood, pulsing beneath her translucent skin. My face contorted, involuntarily, and in a blink my teeth had transformed to razor incisors that grazed my tongue. My hand caressed her throat and I noticed the blue veins of my wrist against the white of my own skin. I was changing somehow, but I took it in with a mere casual interest. I was subject to a more instinctual, primal urge – hunger.

The girl struggled again and her pulse quickened, her heartbeat thrummed in my ear. I could resist no longer. My lips curled back and I sank my teeth into her warm flesh and tasted the salty sweetness of my first bite. The forbidden fruit of our age. I was now permanently cast from the Garden of Eden to live a life of death. Trapped in darkness for eternity.

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