everafter (everafter #1) by Nell Stark & Trinity Tam

Author:Nell Stark & Trinity Tam [Stark, Nell & Tam, Trinity]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, lesbian, romance, Urban Fantasy, paranormal, Vampire
ISBN: 9781602824126
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2009-09-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

I stayed in bed listening to the even rumble of Valentine’s slumber. Even though sleep eluded me, it was calming just to feel her breath against my neck and her warmth along my back. But as the hours ticked by, I couldn’t stop my mind from racing and my muscles were starting to cramp from holding still for so long. The glaring red LED lights of my alarm clock told me that it was half past three in the morning. Carefully, I extracted myself from Val’s embrace. It wasn’t easy. Even unconscious, she tightened her arms around me as I started to pull away. Slowly and gently, I inched my way out from under her and when I was finally free, I slipped my pillow into her arms as a placeholder until I came back.

Something Val had mentioned earlier was weighing heavily on my mind. She said that the thirst was getting harder to control. I knew that today’s incident was partly my fault for wearing myself so thin over the last few weeks. I felt no guilt for offering that to Val as an excuse for my fainting spell. But I also knew that she had taken quite a bit of blood. I wasn’t sure if I could have held up through that, even had I been fully rested and healthy. The fact was that Val’s control over her thirst would always be tenuous. I knew that she would fight it as hard as she could, but that didn’t have to be the only solution.

I pulled my laptop out of my bag and plugged it into the outlet by the sofa. I rearranged the cushions into a comfortable nest as it booted up. My first inclination had been to flip through Val’s medical texts for some kind of inspiration, but the last time I had tried reading over her shoulder, I think I’d understood maybe two out of every five words I saw. I was hoping the Internet could dumb it all down for me. I spared a glance toward the bedroom. My heart stuttered painfully in my chest as I remembered just how close I had come to losing her. If there was an answer out there, I would find it.

I shook the morbid thoughts from my head and focused on the matter at hand. How did one research becoming an unending blood bag for one’s lover? I typed “blood production” into the search engine and called up a page of mostly technical-looking Web sites. I clicked on the Wikipedia entry for red blood cells at the top of the list.

About halfway down the page I sat up and grabbed a pad and pen. Excitement seared through me like wild electricity. I had to force myself to calm down. I’d only been at this for five minutes; I couldn’t let my anxiety cloud my objectivity or else I’d be tilting at windmills all day. I wrote down the word “erythropoietin” and circled it emphatically. Erythropoietin, I learned,

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