Women of the Bite: A Lesbian Vampire Anthology by Cecilia Tan

Author:Cecilia Tan [Tan, Cecilia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Vampires, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Paranormal, Sex, Romance, Erotic, Short Stories, Lesbian
ISBN: 9781593501587
Publisher: Alyson Books

The Heiress

by Rakelle Valencia

The girl fought like a she-cat in heat, scratching and yowling on the damp earth as the venom overtook her human body.

She had been of no consequence to them. She wasn’t a meal, a blood necessity. Sport—in a now-ravaged land. The beautiful raven-haired girl was their mark to be left behind for those that might folow, questioning why such wondrous hils, forests, cottages, and castle appeared al but suddenly abandoned.

I had been the hostler’s daughter, stolen one day to return five days later with my clothes and body scratched and torn, my skin having lost al luster, that no man wanted to claim me for a match any longer, though I had had many suitors previous to the abduction. “Spoiled goods” was what I had heard. But my pa and maman were not to put me out. With their love for me, my maman cut long, wavy, brunette locks from my head each morning as she cried, and pa dressed me as a young lad, then taught me the business of horses.

I toiled in the stables beneath the shadow of the castle with the imported blooded Trakehners for years, though I had never changed while my parents grew frail. And I fawned over the raven-haired heiress come of age, in my dreams, as any young working-class man might.

Then the coven had come. They were a ragged bunch of degenerates moving through Europe with only destruction on their minds. Pa, having long ago guessed at what had become of my stolen week, sent me fleeing into the dangerously steep rocky terrain to hide out in a smal cave we had once found while ilegaly hunting the forest. He knew I was no match for any of these monsters and he bade me to wait for him before coming home.

I had waited—sensing with al of my new being the destruction and havoc wrought on my beloved home. I cried, but there were no tears, except faint, watery trails of blood marking my flawless porcelain skin. I clawed at my ears, face, and cheeks to keep from feeling that my parents would not survive the carnage. My face remained unmarred as Italian marble. My fists pounded the crags of rock within my hovel, crumbling chunks to the scat-ridden floor, widening the space of my sanctuary, doing no true damage.

After a week, I sensed nothing. The land seemed to lay in silent remorse. Stil, pa never fetched me.

Reaching out with vampiric hypersensitivity, I knew only that my world had grown quiet. It was time to leave my hiding.

That’s when I saw her, the heiress, writhing on the forest floor of soft ferns and moss like some unnatural being. I guessed then that she was the only one left behind, undead. I watched for moments of awed curiosity until she settled into a fetal position, mewling like a sick kitten.

At least when I had been stolen, then left alone to wander home, a live bound deer lay beside me, its heart thumping, its blood caling to me.

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