Triquetra 02 - Haunted By Your Soul by Marguerite Labbe

Author:Marguerite Labbe [Labbe, Marguerite]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“I CAN’T believe you pulled that shit on me again. Didn’t you swear

you wouldn’t do that?” I complained as we walked down the hill on Lothrop Street. “I swore not to take away your will. Moving your brain into a sleep pattern is different. You’d had a long day, and what you’re planning is not going to make it any easier, especially if you keep this fool notion of going to Rome.”

I couldn’t be irritated as much as I wanted. It had been the first good night of sleep I’d had in a very long time, plus my meeting with the doctor had gone well. I’d had to skip my statistics class to go, and hearing Kristair bitch about it had put me in a better mood. The test results from my physical would take a week, enough time to get me to Rome and back, if everything went well. Then I could play football again and put this all behind me.

“You have a one-track mind, Jacob.” Kristair seemed more talkative today than normal. And his emotions kept swinging between skittish and awed. Every few minutes, he’d make my eyes jerk up to the sky where the sun was peeking out of the clouds. He was going to make me permanently cross-eyed if he kept it up.

“Relax, love. It’s not like you’re a vampire anymore. You’re one of the big, bad Ascended, remember. You can go anywhere.” “I can’t erase two thousand years of instincts overnight.” “Thought you said it was all mind over matter.” I gave him a teasing poke. “Couldn’t you just will yourself to walk outside?” “You have to believe it. If there’s any doubt, it would be fatal. Not something I’d have been eager to risk. Besides, we know what happened when I realized the power I’d had. I think either way, we’d never hear from the vampire who tried that trick again.”

“I get your point. Either you end up as a crispy critter or you’re snatched by the Ascended the moment you realize you’re a badass.” I paused then grinned again. “I bet you’d risk it under certain circumstances. Say, if Kayla was in trouble.”

“True.”

“You’d do it for me too.”

“That’s debatable.”

I laughed, warmed by Kristair’s surge of exasperated affection. “Yeah, I love you too, old man.” “The last time I saw the sun rise was the morning our raiding party left to destroy the Roman fort. It wasn’t much of a sunrise. The mists were heavy, blocking out everything behind a gray wall. It had burned off by noon, but I wasn’t paying much attention. I was too busy.” Kristair’s voice became quieter in reflection. “I didn’t know it would be the last time I’d see it.”

Abruptly, I was drawn into a memory so real I could feel the mist cooling on my skin as I ran through that ancient dawn. The air stirred and eddied around me, around the men I was running with, dark-eyed men covered in blue tattoos, many more extensive than my own.

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