To Save a Vampire: A Paranormal Dystopian Vampire Series (The Midnight Monsters Series Book 1) by A.K. Koonce

Author:A.K. Koonce [Koonce, A.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

The power urging the river forward to a destination I’ll never see is so brutal it rips against the rocky edge where I stand. I glance down at the few tears that now occupy my dirty shirt. It’s cooler on the riverbank and I hold my arms around myself to keep the chill from crawling down my spine. Asher’s description of the veil keeps pushing into my thoughts even as I try to focus on other things.

The sky is darkening and the sun threatens to fall. Asher is impatient to leave. As soon as we came out of the woods, he walked right past my mother and Ky and started getting our packs ready. He also tied a limp, dead turkey to the outside of his bag by its little leg. The animal is missing feathers, but, more disturbingly, it’s missing its head, its neck ending in shredded torn skin.

Ky is sitting on a large flat rock soaking his leg in the cold water with Ripper lying lazily at his side, enjoying the way Ky is scratching behind his ears. My mother stands next to them on the rock, watching Asher with intensity.

The sound of rocks under foot signals my mother’s movements. Asher’s awareness is starting to rub off on me.

She walks up to my side, her arm brushing against mine. “Did anything happen in the woods?” she asks me.

A crease touches her brows. Her face has grown even thinner in the past few days. My once beautiful mother is aging with worry. Her secrets are starting to wear on her.

I glance over my shoulder to Asher who is strapping the musical instrument from the house over his shoulder. Panic settles into the bottom of my stomach. Should I tell my mother about the veil in the woods? About Gabriel? A few hours ago, the most interesting thing I had to report on was two, now crushed, mushrooms.

“Nothing Asher couldn’t handle,” I say as carefully as possible, giving her a small smile before leaving her on the cold bank alone.

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