Fated (Book #11 in the Vampire Journals) by Morgan Rice

Author:Morgan Rice [Rice, Morgan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2014-04-07T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Caitlin walked quickly across the Yale University campus, clutching her coat, which was too light for this weather, around her shoulders as a stiff breeze whipped through. It was already the coldest November she’d ever felt, and Caitlin felt chilled to the bone as she marched across campus, keeping her head down, trying to shield herself from the wind as she fought her way toward the Sterling Memorial Library. Caitlin glanced up at it, a massive Gothic building looking like a medieval church rising up into the sky, dominating the campus, and she felt as if she were approaching another era. This building was so out of context here, in this modern university, in this modern city, like a portal to another time and place.

It was only fitting, she thought, that it should house some of the rarest books in existence, the most precious and obscure volumes on where the supernatural intersected with scholarship.

It was the intersection that Caitlin was interested in. She did not want to go to a purely occult source, nor did she want to seek out a purely academic one, either. She wanted firsthand information, wanted to unearth what no one had been able to for centuries, and to analyze it all in a way that no one else ever had. Aiden had set her off on the right foot, and in the right place, already giving her dozens of leads for volumes to point her in the right direction. Clearly, he had gone far down this road himself, before, she assumed, he had given up.

Too much time, not enough years, he had said to her.

She could see in his eyes that Aiden, sadly, did want to continue, had wanted to find the answers himself. But he must have finally given up, finding it too vast, too ambitious even for himself.

Caitlin could hardly blame him. After all, this was the Holy Grail of scholars, occultists, and historians for centuries, the quest to find the mythical cure for vampirism, and the mythical weapon to eradicate it—or, for that matter, even finding any proof that vampirism existed at all. Caitlin, of course, didn’t need any proof. She had seen it with her own eyes, in her own daughter. But the cure, and the weapon—that was a different matter.

Caitlin marched up the stone steps leading to the vast door, this place looking like an ancient stone cathedral, and tried to push from her mind thoughts of her daughter out there somewhere, missing. It pained her to think of it. A part of her wanted to turn around and run back to her car and race back to Rhinebeck, to go street to street searching for her.

But she forced herself to lift her chin and keep marching through the doors, knowing turning back would do no good. After all, what good would it do to walk block to block? No, this was where she was needed. They needed to divide their efforts. She had to try something new, however remote it was.

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