Dance With a Vampire by Ellen Schreiber

Author:Ellen Schreiber
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fables, Legends, juvenile fiction, paranormal, general, Myths, love & romance
ISBN: 9780061975660
Published: 2011-03-12T21:59:20+00:00

11 Blood Reader

Valentine’s words haunted me as I futilely attempted to search through my Olivia Outcast journal for any covenant dream entries.

“Alexander needs to know you aren’t ready,” the mischievous vampire had said to me.

Valentine was trying to threaten Billy Boy and at the same time destroy my relationship with Alexander.

I shivered, recalling Valentine’s grasping my sleeping brother’s neck. Although I was relieved the tween bloodsucker had escaped from our house, I was still distraught. I gazed out my window and imagined Valentine flying directly to the Mansion, squeezing his bat-shaped body through a breech in an attic window, then becoming a gothic boy again and confronting an unsuspecting Alexander with negative ideas about his vampire-wannabe girlfriend.

If Valentine betrayed my wandering thoughts and revealed them to my vampire-mate, what would this mean for my future relationship with Alexander? How dare Valentine tell me, much less anyone, that I was frightened of the one thing I’d always dreamed of becoming. On numerous occasions, Alexander made me aware of his disapproval of my joining his dark and dangerous world. My gentle vampire wanted to protect me from the underworld, but gradually, through our time together, he felt comfortable enough to share portions of it with me—the Mansion, the amulets, his coffin. If he knew I had hesitated or, worse, was afraid, he may have no choice but to bond eternally with a true vampire.

Right now, Valentine might be meeting Alexander. I’d sneak out—only I had no way of knowing to where…the Mansion, the cemetery, or the cave? I lay in bed, my eyes wide open. I was as restless not knowing where Valentine had flown off to as when the menacing vampire had appeared in Billy Boy’s bedroom.

The next morning, I awoke to the sounds of Billy Boy’s shrill voice rattling through the heating vents. I lifted up my groggy head from the pillow, grabbed my Malice in Wonderland slippers, and headed downstairs.

My parents were brunching on coffee and cantaloupe while reading the Dullsville Saturday newspaper.

“Valentine is gone,” Billy Boy, still in sweats and an oversized T-shirt, ranted to my parents. “He wasn’t here when I woke up. He didn’t even say good-bye.”

“Are you sure?” my mother asked. “Did you check the entire house?”

“I searched everywhere.”

My parents looked concerned. “Did you call him at his house?”

“I don’t have the number,” Billy Boy replied.

They don’t have a phone in the bat cave? I wanted to say.

“Maybe we should drive by his house,” my dad offered.

“He said he was staying with his aunt, but I don’t know where she lives,” my brother confessed.

I had to put a stop to this before my parents involved the police, the PTA, and Dullsville’s mayor.

“Why is there so much commotion?” I chimed in. “I saw Valentine get picked up last night after everyone went to sleep. I guess he was homesick. I thought you all knew.”

“He didn’t tell me—,” Billy Boy said.

“Duh—he obviously was too embarrassed. He wants to impress you, not look like a fool.”

“In elementary school,”

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