Vampire's Heart (Blood Vow Book 4) by Helen Scott

Author:Helen Scott [Scott, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-28T16:00:00+00:00

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Cordelia

Rook is alive. I repeated it over and over again in my mind like a mantra. If I could convince myself that it was true and he was here with me, some of the anxiety inside me might fade. It was the thought anyway.

He hadn't died, but I’d certainly thought he was dead when one of the assassins attacked him from behind. I couldn’t stop seeing the blood pooled around his body, his limbs motionless, and his eyes rolled back into his head every time I so much as blinked. It was going to take some time to get over this.

And no matter how many times I told myself that he was alive and I should be grateful, I couldn’t shake the emotion of having almost lost him.

Hell, I should have been shouting from the rooftops that my soulmate and husband was alive and well because I sure as hell thought I'd lost him forever. On the other hand, here I was, stuck in another room with him, madder than a hornet who’d faced the hose, and ready to strike.

He lied to me, by omission, but he’d had a reason. He chose to keep details of our bond to himself, leaving me in the dark like some pitiful damsel in distress who couldn't handle the truth of the matter. Those details included the fact that we were actually married. And not only that, we were expected to have a kid as soon as possible. So, there were pluses and minus in his ledger of good and bad deeds.

But he could’ve told me about the expectations of a baby before he sprang it on me after it was too late to rethink. I’d known for a bit now, and I still couldn't wrap my mind around that one. Especially since Rook and I had never even discussed the idea of having children. We’d both been too busy fighting for our lives to think about starting a family. I always figured that talking about kids was something for down the road. But it turned out kids were part of the package that no one had mentioned was expected of us.

I paced back and forth in the living room of the suite while Rook leaned his shoulder against the wall with his ankles crossed, watching me. I wanted to confront him about all of this, to scream at him and fight with him, to demand to know everything he hadn’t told me again, but I was afraid of the anger boiling inside me. I certainly didn't want to burn Rook to a crisp like I had the other vampires, but the emotions and feelings were there.

Instead, I looked down at my hands, and realized that I didn't even know who I was anymore. I would’ve liked to say that I didn’t know how all of this started, but I did. I couldn’t deny my part in it, either.

Rook and I started out as a simple agreement at The Nest, then we'd turned into fuck buddies.

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