Unhinged: Blood Bond: Parts 4, 5 & 6 (Volume 2) by Hardt Helen;

Author:Hardt, Helen; [Hardt, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 5473226
Publisher: Waterhouse Press

Chapter Sixteen

Erin

Vampires.

Ghosts.

Demons.

My universe had been tilted beyond belief.

But that didn’t matter at the moment, because Dante was kissing me. My nipples hardened as he deepened the kiss, devouring my mouth with his. Our lips slid together, and his thigh went between my legs. I ground against it, my hunger deepening, expanding, until I had to have him.

But he broke the kiss, panting. “Not with Bill and… I can’t even say it.”

I was panting also, and I squeezed my thighs together to ease the throbbing between them. Didn’t help.

“Your father,” I said.

“My father,” he repeated.

“Dante, how did your father…die?”

He sighed. “I don’t know. He and my uncle went after me when I disappeared. They never came back.”

Ice sliced into me as my hand flew to my mouth. “I’m so sorry.”

“My father is dead because of me.” He turned away from me, his shoulders trembling.

I reached forward to touch him, but he inched farther away, as if he could sense me and didn’t want to be touched.

“Dante, your father is…here.” Wow. Totally weird to actually say that. A dead guy was here.

Dante turned to face me, his dark eyes sunken. “He’s still dead.”

Reality was really taking a big hit today. “But he’s here. You can make whatever peace you need to make with him.”

He shook his head and let out a sarcastic laugh. “Bill said there was a ghost protecting me. I didn’t believe him, of course. It was nonsense, and I figured he was losing it. Ghosts don’t exist, after all. That’s what we’ve always believed. But I heard my father’s voice today. Clear as a bell on Sunday morning. Turns out Bill was right. I just never dreamed the ghost would be my own father.”

“Who better than your father to be your protector?” I couldn’t believe the words coming out of my mouth.

“In theory, sure. But my father was missing for as long as I was. If he was truly protecting me, then where was he when—”

“When what?”

“I can’t go there yet. Not with you.”

A spear of fear lanced into me. What had Dante been through? Would he ever tell me? Could he? The thought of him enduring anything unpleasant nauseated me.

“Dante…”

“It’s all right, love. I just…can’t. Not yet.”

“There is something you can do, though.”

“What’s that?”

“You can ask your father. You can find out how he died, why he wasn’t protecting you when you needed him to. Maybe he has a good reason.”

“I can’t. Not when I can’t look him in the eye. I need to be able to see him, Erin. Why can everyone see him but me?”

I hesitantly touched his forearm, and he didn’t jerk away this time. “I don’t know. I wish I did. I think I see him because…”

“Because why?”

“Because I never realized he was a ghost. I didn’t know him, so I had no way of knowing he was dead. He helped me with my car one day when it wouldn’t start, and then he told me something.” The event raced back into my head. “He told me to keep an open mind.

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