Blood, Body and Mind by Kathi Barton

Author:Kathi Barton [Barton, Kathi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Erotica, General, Paranormal, Fantasy, Vampires
ISBN: 9781937593643
Publisher: World Castle Publishing
Published: 2011-11-25T13:00:00+00:00

~CHAPTER THIRTEEN~

Aaron was in his lair, well beneath the main house when quite suddenly, he was awake. No one, not even Duncan, could get into those rooms without his permission, but something, or someone, had woken him from his deep, healing sleep.

“Who’s there? Where are you?” He sat up cautiously, pulling the silk sheet over his bare body.

“I am Melody, Mistress of Light, and Keeper of All Magic. I have a need of you, Aaron Xavier MacManus, and would like to speak to you privately, please.”

The room suddenly became ablaze with candle light. As soon as his eyes adjusted to the soft glow, Aaron spied a tiny woman sitting, well, on closer inspection, floating above the arm chair across the room from his bed.

“How did you get in here?” Or better yet, he thought, why are you here in my lair?

“Actually, I’m not really here. I’m in Nevada, Reno actually. Have you ever been there? It’s very hot, but the room I have is quite lovely. I’ll only be there for a short time more before I move back to Molavonta.” She smiled at him. “I’m hiding, you see. I wanted to see you, to see your worth before I came to talk to you personally. I hope you don’t mind.”

She got up and floated toward the dresser closest to where she sat. He watched as she leaned down and looked at the photos on it.

Most of the pictures had been taken by Duncan. They were of him and his friends over the centuries. His favorite one, the one of him and Duncan together in the early nineteen hundreds, she now held in her hand.

“You aren’t here, yet you can see me and I you,” Aaron said, more to himself than to her. “You can pick up things too. How is that even possible?”

After setting the gold frame back down on the dresser, she moved over to the suit of armor that graced the far corner of the room. He had worn that particular suit during the Crusades in the thirteenth century when he fought for the Holy Land versus Muslims. He had been a Templar Knight. He had just avoided being arrested with Jacques de Molay, the Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and sixty of his senior knights in Paris that night on October thirteenth.

The men and Jacques had been charged with heresy and accused of homosexual acts, crimes punishable by death. The admissions of guilt were extracted with the use of torture. The Pope initiated inquiries into the order and thousands of Knights Templar were arrested across Europe. Aaron had been away in America and not a part of the group that fateful night. When word had reached him of what happened, it was too late for him to help. He kept the armor as part of respect for the last Master of the Knights.

“I’m magic,” she told him without turning. “It’s as simple as that. You are Sara’s vampire, are you not? She didn’t tell me

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