Haven by Kristi Cook

Author:Kristi Cook
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9781442407619
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“It’s . . . I have my reasons. Trust me.”

I shook my head, annoyed. I mean, he’d already told me the worst of it. Why keep things from me now?

“It’s just . . . my God, Violet, I’ve been alive, what? A hundred and thirty years now? Trapped forever inside this boy’s body, with a boy’s raging

hormones and a vampire’s desires. I can’t . . .”

He trailed off, and I saw him swal ow hard. When he spoke again, his voice was more control ed. “It’s so much easier at school, where I can send

you off to your dorm room. But here in my house, alone . . . I had no idea it would be so difficult. I thought I would be more . . . mature.”

I almost laughed at that, but somehow managed to squelch it. It was just so . . . crazy. “So you’re saying, what? That you might be tempted to

ravish me? Or bite me?”

He sighed, looking defeated. “I’m just saying that it’s late, and that you’re swaying on your feet you’re so tired.”

He was right—I could barely keep my eyes open. Stil , I’d never felt so rejected in al my life.

“Sleep tight, Vi,” he said, reaching for the door that led to his room.

“Yeah, you too,” I muttered.

Fifteen minutes later my teeth were brushed, and I’d changed into my pajamas and col apsed onto the huge four-poster bed. The goose-down

pil ows were fluffed, the satiny sheets pul ed up to my chin. The house was quiet, and I could hear Aidan pacing back and forth in his own room.

Guess he couldn’t sleep either. I sighed, snuggling lower beneath the covers, trying not to think about Isabel, trying not to picture him kissing her,

touching her.

And then my vision began to tunnel. My stomach pitched; bile rose in my throat. Everything went dark.

There was a bed, one I had never seen before. It looked old-fashioned, like an antique. I couldn’t place the room, didn’t recognize my

surroundings. My gaze shifted back to the bed, and I saw two people there, their bodies pressed close together. I heard a moan; could have

sworn it was my own. And then I recognized myself on the bed, lying beneath someone, my skin pale as moonlight washed over me. “So

beautiful,” someone murmured, the voice familiar. Aidan’s voice. And then it was as if I were seeing him from the vantage point of the bed,

looking up into his face, his eyes red-rimmed and his jaw clenched as he stared down at me with pure, raw lust in his eyes.

I gasped loudly as the vision swam and disappeared. Blinking hard, I sat up, trying to catch my breath. Whoa. One minute I’d been trying to

picture him in bed with his little opera dancer, and the next I was seeing something that looked like us in bed together instead. Doing . . . wel , it was

pretty obvious what we were doing. Or what we were about to do.

Thank God he couldn’t see my

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