Unfortunate Souls (Book 1): Unfortunate Souls Series (The Unfortunate Souls Series) by Phillips Jade M

Author:Phillips, Jade M. [Phillips, Jade M.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Jade M. Phillips
Published: 2015-10-10T04:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-TWO: RUBY

I wasn’t sure what to make of Wilson the vampire. Aside from the beast I’d killed in front of the Mission, he was the first vampire I’d ever met. I guess I’d been expecting someone different. Maybe someone with black hair that came to a sharp point in the front like Count Dracula. Or maybe someone wearing a swooping silken cloak like in an old black and white movie. Heck, I didn’t know what I’d expected, but it sure wasn’t a twenty-something year old boy wearing grandpa clothes, like he’d never gotten past the nineteen fifties. He was nerdy-unique in his own way and I could tell he was very smart. His young face belied how old he really was, but his dark eyes spoke of wisdom and maturity.

He’d seemed nice enough, I guess, but I could definitely sense the tension between Guy and him. I could see it in their body language. And Guy had never told me about Wilson, always avoiding my questions. I wondered what had happened between them to cause such strife, but it was not the time to dig up the unwanted past. It was time to prepare me for the future. One that, in all honesty, scared the crap out of me.

I, Ruby Carter, Newborn vampire, would be living amongst vampires, werewolves, and witches in the very near future. My body shuddered in trepidation. “Now, retract your fangs.” Wilson’s voice snapped me back to my training.

I let my swirling thoughts flee and focused on my mouth. The tips of my pointed teeth touched my bottom lip. They were sharp, very sharp, and if I wasn’t careful, I could easily kill someone— not to mention do some serious damage to myself. I squinted with concentration and tried to retract them, but nothing happened. I sighed with frustration.

Wilson paced back and forth beneath the glow of a pale yellow spotlight that clung to the edge of an old shed, his corded bolo tie swaying with the motion. The sky was pitch black, no stars to be seen. Even the moon had gone into hiding this night.

We stood in his back yard— a sizable clearing of dirt before a huge expanse of desert. A coyote howled in the distance.

“There will be times you need to appear human.” Wilson gazed out into the night as if listening to something I couldn’t hear. “It will be the difference between life and death.”

“But aren’t I already dead?” I still didn’t understand exactly what vampirism was and how it worked. All I knew was my human-self had died, or almost died rather, not quite sure which, and I’d been reborn as this creature.

“You are an Unfortunate Soul, though I despise the term,” Wilson stated with distaste, turning back to me. “That means you are no longer human. But just because you have immortality does not mean you cannot be killed.”

My stomach cringed in dark understanding of his words, but Wilson tapped me on the forehead and I creased my brows at the invasive touch.

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