Holiday with a Vampire 4 by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-12-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Darkness still claimed the streets of New Harmony. Angel clung to him for a moment, the heat of her body making the honeysuckle fragrance of her much more acute in the cold air.

She tipped her radiant face up at him and smiled in a way that twisted the bitter barb of truth even deeper into him.

“So, now what?” she asked, her voice light and easy.

“Now we wait for your wish to come true.”

“My wish?”

“You wished we could be together.”

Her eyes narrowed. “Why does it sound like you don’t think that’ll be a good thing?”

Cullen rubbed his hands on her arms, the red wool of her coat soft beneath his fingers. “What did your mother tell you about the locket?”

Angel fidgeted. “She said that a man would come asking for it and offering me a gift. If I wanted to keep the gift, I had to hold on to the locket. I can only assume she meant you.”

Cullen nodded slowly. “What she didn’t tell you is that no wish the locket has granted has ever turned out as expected. I wanted immortality, but immortality is an empty shadow of life when you are all alone.”

A sad look of empathy flitted across her features. “I never wanted to be alone. I don’t see how the locket could make my situation much worse than it is.”

Cullen winced. “Trust me. You haven’t seen two hundred years’ worth of its manipulations.”

She gripped the lapels of his coat with her slender hands. “So, my wish about us—it’s doomed to failure?”

If he could have asked for the locket outright, he would have, but the conditions Marie had placed on the curse made it impossible.

If you tell her de truth, you try to take the locket, it will cut you down. You will come back, and each time der be a little less of you.

He’d only been foolish enough to try it once. He’d blacked out the minute the words had left his mouth, and when he came to, he’d aged ten years.

He hadn’t tried that unfortunate path again. And he certainly wouldn’t risk it with Angel. “I may be a vampire, but I can’t tell the future. I only know what I’ve seen. The locket is cursed and I’ve tried everything to break that curse.”

“How do we break it?”

Cullen looked away from her, pain radiating through his chest. He wanted to tell her, God above, did he want to, but he couldn’t. “I can’t tell you. It’s something you have to figure out for yourself.”

Angel sighed heavily. “It’s just a locket. It can’t possibly be this critical to anything.” She dug in her purse and pulled out her ring of keys, then flipped through them, searching for the key to unlock the front door of her shop. Daylight was coming. Cullen could feel it in his bones. But there was nothing to be done about it.

Despite everything he’d shown her, everything that had passed between them, Angel had yet to offer him the locket. He was growing less certain that she ever would.

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