A Walk on the Dark Side by Kendra Ashe

Author:Kendra Ashe [Ashe, Kendra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Night Raven Press
Published: 2020-05-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Mason

It was late. The skyline in the east was already turning pink with the dawn of a new day. I could feel my skin getting hot.

The darkness of my coffin was a relief. As morbid as it was to sleep in a coffin, I didn’t have a choice. Basements aren’t a thing in New Orleans.

If a vampire wanted the luxury of a real bed, it would require a light-proof room. Not easy in a place like Louisiana, though I knew some had managed to convert their homes.

The only other option was beneath the earth’s surface. There, a vampire could enjoy the comfort of a bed. Living beneath the earth was safer, but these places didn’t offer the beauty of the night that one could experience above ground.

Could Nicolas have descended into one of the underground vampire cities?

I’d once heard that Nicolas had retreated to Dead Haven.

Maybe it was time I paid a visit?

Though I rarely felt tired, tonight I did. My fatigue was more emotional than physical.

Yes, vampires have emotions.

The vampire may not experience the same range of emotions they did while human, but they were still there. When the emotion was something as powerful as love or hate, a vampire could sometimes feel it even more deeply than he had as a human.

Was I falling in love with Claire?

She had a powerful hold over me, but was it love? I was disturbed by her feelings for me, but even more troubled by my feelings for her. Every moment that I was with Claire, I could feel myself falling deeper and deeper. If I didn’t get out soon, I would never let her go. That would be disastrous.

As far as I was concerned, Claire was the light I’d lost. She carried its essence within her. Loving a vampire would extinguish that light, and that was something I could not let happen. That internal light was one of the reasons she held such power over my emotions.

I would see that she was safe and then I would sleep. I would disappear from the human world for a few decades. When I returned, Claire would be a distant memory, for me as well as the rest of the world.

Closing my eyes, I sought the only haven known to a vampire; sleep. Instead of finding the comfort of oblivion that I desperately needed, I kept seeing her beautiful dark eyes and luscious red lips.

Leaving her would be by far, the hardest thing I’d ever done in my long existence, but it had to be done. To love a vampire meant giving up your life in one way or another. Even if she didn’t turn, she would eventually succumb to the darkness of my world. I could never let that happen.

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