Blood Lock by Tenaya Jayne

Author:Tenaya Jayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, paranormal romance, fantasy, fantasy romance, vampire romance, werewolf battles, werewolf and vampire romance, werewolf and shapeshifters, vampire adventure romance
Publisher: Tenaya Jayne

Chapter Eleven

“I don’t want to leave you.” Syrus held her face in his hands.

“I’m all right.”

“No, you’re not.” He ran his finger gently under her eye. “You’re so tired.”

Forest pressed her palm against his chest. “You’ll know if something’s wrong. Rahaxeris got back last night, he’ll be over here soon. You need to go to work.”

He leaned down and kissed her deeply. He put his hand over hers. “You know how to reach me.”

Tesla bumped into their legs. Syrus smiled down at her and lifted her up. She clung around his neck. Her hands lit up. He rubbed them, and the energy quieted under his touch. He kissed her cheek.

“Be a good girl for mommy.”

She nodded.

He set her down and kissed Forest again before leaving for work. After he left, Tesla stood by the front door, and began to cry.

“It’s all right, sweetheart. He’ll be back later.”

She wasn’t consoled. Forest picked her up, wincing as her daughter’s hands stung and burned her. She began kicking and thrashing. Forest set her back down. She turned away and toddled to her room. Forest watched her retreat, a singular kind of pain spreading through her chest. This pain was new, but Forest was becoming increasingly familiar with it. It pleaded desperately and stretched out like an endless thread of desolation pulled right through her core. This pain wasn’t sharp with peaks and valleys, it was constant without an end in sight. As it pulled through, it snagged and unraveled her.

She followed Tesla to her room. The doorframe was hard against her back as she sat on the floor and watched her daughter. Various toys lay scattered around. Since Tesla had aged, the reasons or patterns to her actions and play made no sense to Forest. She watched her, tried to analyze and understand, but since the incident with the flower, she knew Tesla didn’t see the world the same way she did.

Forest tried to engage and play with her. Sometimes she hit on the right thing and Tesla would stick with her for a while, but those moments were few and far between. She longed so greatly, more than any desire she’d ever felt, for her daughter to know that she loved her. Hand in hand with that desire, was the longing that her child would love her in return. She thought it unnatural that she should have doubts on such things, yet they were there, like shadows in the corners.

“Would you like to listen to some music, Tesla?”

Tesla made no show that she had heard. Forest crossed to the other side of the room and turned on the stereo. Her little hands stopped stacking the blocks. She looked up, her eyes wide. Forest sat next to her as the classical flute music filled the room.

Forest smiled at her. “Music. Do you like it?”

Tesla blinked a few times. She covered her ears with her hands and then removed them, put them back, and removed them again. Her face relaxed, and she closed her eyes.

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