Vampires of Maze (Part Four) (Beautiful Immortals Series Two Book 4) by Tim O'Rourke

Author:Tim O'Rourke [O'Rourke, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ravenwoodgreys
Published: 2016-05-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

I wasn’t sure whether it was my fever returning or not, but by the time I’d reached home and slammed the door tight behind me, my skin felt burning hot again. I was furious with Calix. How dare he treat me in such a way? I knew we weren’t the best of friends but I thought at least we had started to have some kind of understanding between us. We had shared breakfast, and after all, he had given me that warning about Rea, so I thought that perhaps some kind of friendship had started to form between us. Perhaps I was mistaken and once more been foolish. Was there no one I could trust in Shade?

Heading up the stairs and to the bathroom, I threw off my clothes and turned on the shower. While the pipes behind the wall clanked and banged as the water warmed in them, I looked once more at my reflection in the mirror. I studied the bite-mark Calix had left on me. I was relieved to see those hairs hadn’t grown back – not yet, anyhow. Stepping beneath the warm water, I let it splash over my seething skin. And as I let the water run through my hair, I wondered why, despite living in Shade with five other people, I felt so utterly alone. I felt like an outsider. I knew that however hard I tried to help these people – these werewolves – I would never really be a part of their pack. But did it really matter? That wasn’t the real reason I’d come into this world, was it? After all, in the world I’d come from, I’d been totally alone as well. Perhaps it had been that sense of isolation which I had been trying to escape from. Maybe that’s why I struggled so much to deflect Trent’s advances? Why was I so keen to welcome his approach, only to rebuff him when he became too close? Dare I let Trent get close to me? He wasn’t Pariac nor was he Theo – both of them were dead now. Did I not have a right – did I not deserve – to be given the chance to move on and to make a new life myself? I understood what I’d done and how much pain I’d caused, and I was desperately trying to put it right. But did I have to make this journey of redemption alone? If Trent was attracted to me and I was attracted to him, what harm could there be in us sharing something deeper? The rational part of my brain told me no – to keep away from Trent, not only because of Rea and her jealous streak, but because of what had happened before when I’d gone and fallen in love with a werewolf and vampire. But that was then and this was now. Did things have to be the same as they were before? I’d definitely learnt from my mistakes – or

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