Honeybloods : a sapphic vampire romance novella (HONEYBLOODS #1) by Belle I.S

Author:Belle, I.S.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

This motel room had a TV. Honey flipped through the channels until she found a monster movie from the sixties, then sat back against the bed.

“Just one. Again. I don’t even sleep,” Honey had said when they checked in. “We should just get a single.”

“But where would you sit and scroll through my phone?” Sadie had replied.

On the blurry TV screen, a woman screamed. She was being dragged through a window by a man in a plastic fish suit. Sadie could see the seams.

She swallowed. “She seemed nice. Jessica. I’m glad you figured out the venom for her.”

Honey looked up. A wad of cash lay on the bed that she was in the middle of counting up. Savings from her summer job last year, she’d said. Sadie was surprised there was any left.

“Me too,” Honey said, and went back to counting. She was down to the coins now, sorting them into piles. Some of them were drifting toward Sadie’s knee, pulled by Sadie’s weight against the mattress.

The woman on the TV shrieked louder. The fish-man was dragging her into his lake, which was obviously filmed in a studio. The scenery was painted on, the sunset rays stiff and unmoving.

Sadie sucked in a breath. “So…girls?”

The sound of coins dropping against the bed stopped. Sadie didn’t dare look over.

“Like,” Honey said, sounding sly but also very tired, “the general existence of girls?”

“No, like…never mind.” Sadie rolled over.

Honey muttered something under her breath. It sounded like idiot. “Girls,” she said. “Yes. I haven’t…girls, before. But yes. Boys and girls.”

Sadie stared at the motel wall. More peeling wallpaper. “You never said.”

“Does it…make things weird?”

She said it casually, almost mocking, like she was going to laugh at Sadie if she said yes. But there was a thread of vulnerability underneath, something Sadie used to dig to find, something Honey rarely offered. And here she was, holding it out.

Sadie rolled onto her back. “Hon. I just cleaned a stranger’s blood off your face. I held an empty McDonald’s cup to a dude’s bleeding neck so you could have a snack later. I buried a cop with you. We’re way past weird.”

Honey laughed. Her smile twisted, like she was trying not to let it get out of control. She mimed throwing a quarter at Sadie’s face.

Sadie held her hands up, just in case. When a coin didn’t come, she settled back against the bed. The movie played on. She could let it lie, move on, say she had to sleep.

More screams from the TV. Sadie stared up at the ceiling and thought of flying.

“Me too,” she said, rushed.

Honey paused. She was on the other side of the room now, slipping her money back into her purse. “Me too what?”

“Girls,” Sadie said. “Just girls, for me. No boys.”

Seconds passed. Onscreen, the hero swept the woman in his arms and kissed her with that strange, smooshy kiss that always happened in old-timey movies.

Sadie waited, expecting a joke about flannel shirts or her prepubescent obsession with Kristen Stewart.

“Cool,” Honey said. She hesitated.

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