Vampire Ever After by RaShelle Workman

Author:RaShelle Workman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Polished Pen Press
Published: 2013-02-16T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

“You are a senseless, foolish girl, Snow White.” Her eyes were still closed, but her words bit through me and held on, like vice grips. When they finally flashed open, they blazed with fury. “How about I start killing the Marked now? Liberate them from their miserable lives.” As she spoke, three of the girls fell forward, out of the sheet of magic surrounding them.

“Noooo,” I yelled, rushing over to the nearest body. Their faces were frozen in terror, their eyes wide, as though they witnessed horrors, even in death. I felt for a pulse on the neck of the closest girl. She didn’t have one. Sickness rose in my throat.

The remaining girls screamed, and tried, once again, to escape. But the magic held them fast. Each tear, every cry in pain, tore at my insides.

More senseless death, I thought.

I moved over to the next girl, hoping against hope she still lived, and checked for a pulse. Nothing.

Several more girls fell forward. One smacked into my shoulder, knocking me off balance. I skidded against the floor. The rough surface scratched my arm, but it healed immediately. I gently lifted the dead girl, and laid her on the ground next to the others.

“Stop. Stop it,” I murmured.

“Make me,” she hissed. Four more girls fell forward.

I pushed aside my devastation, and stood. My whole body shook, with frustration, and fear. It dawned on me I had no idea what I was doing. I’d been alive eighteen years. Had almost zero life experience. And I’d decided to go up against a vampire seven thousand years old. Sharra was right. I was a senseless girl.

An image flashed in my mind. It was of the time Sharra brought me to her realm, and I killed some of the Workers.

I could retaliate. A death for a death.

The power of the Seal burned through my fingers. I whipped around. Lifted my hands and shot two bolts of red light into two Workers. They immediately began to burn. I glanced at Sharra, my jaws clenched in frustration. “Stop,” I shouted.

She snickered, and four more girls fell to the ground. “You seem to think I care for them.”

I lowered my hands. I wouldn’t kill uselessly. “But you did care for them. The night you brought me here. You screamed when they started burning. You were upset. You were—”

“Faking it,” she finished with a shrug. “It was for their benefit,” she waved her hands in the Worker vampires’ direction, and then went on, “as much as it was for yours.”

I stared at her in disbelief.

She sighed. “I do care, of course. I’ve created them for a purpose. Despite what you may think, every creature in Sharra and on Earth is important to me. But I must take into consideration cause and effect.” She smiled genially at the Workers. “My need for a new body far outweighs anything else.” She pointed at her Workers. “That includes them.” She pointed at the girls who were Marked. “Them.” Then she pointed at me.

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