In Bed with the Vampire_A Paranormal Romance by Jasmine Wylder

Author:Jasmine Wylder [Wylder, Jasmine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-23T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

When he’d drunk from her, there hadn’t been so much as a scar left behind. Angelina rubbed her wrist, feeling the twin pricks of pain that had flashed across her skin three years ago when he took his first gulp. It hadn’t hurt as much as she had thought it would, and when he started to drink, it had been… explosive. It only got better when he had moved from her wrist to her neck.

She had thought that, since he drank from her wrists rather than her neck, it was less dangerous. That he had better control over himself…

Her hands fell to her lap as she stared at the yellowed pages of the newspapers from fifty years ago. She’d had to search through a few libraries before she found one that had archives that had what she wanted. Now, she felt like crying and screaming and being sick.

Rainer had been wealthy, even then. He’d had a large house and many servants. And a wife. There were pictures of the two of them; their wedding, he looking dashing in a fitted tuxedo, his wife looking at him like all her dreams had come true. Some of the papers had pictures of them attending this gala or that party. An announcement of the birth of their son. An announcement of his death.

Then his wife’s death. And the murder investigation. There were so many details. Servants who came forward and said that Rainer and his wife had been having a great deal of marital problems; accusations that he was cheating on her. Those servants suddenly retracted all their statements right around the same time as the police dropped the case.

Angelina leaned on her elbows, digging her hands in her hair. It was true. Rainer had been married and his wife died. The newspapers were inflammatory, all but condemning him for murdering her, but the official cause was suicide. Given the era in history and the way things were today even, she could only imagine that were it not true, they’d be saying those things about Rainer anyway…

But what it if was true?

With a grunt of anger and worry, Angelina closed the book. She put it back where it had been, gathered up the toys she’d laid down for Tommy and gathered him up. He pointed at the diaper bag.

“Mommy, my hunny.”

“You’re hungry?”

“Yeah. Snack!”

Angelina sighed as she put him back in the stroller. “Would you like grapes or carrots?”

“Candy.”

“No.” Angelina shook her head. “No candy. Grapes or carrots.”

Tommy scowled a moment, then perked up. “Cheese?”

Angelina had to laugh as she kissed his head. “Grapes or carrots.”

“Oh. Grapes.” Tommy sighed, heavily kicking his feet. Angelina pulled out the grapes and gave them to him. “Let’s go home, shall we?”

She was distracted and nervous all the way back to their apartment. If it was true that Rainer’s wife had committed suicide, shouldn’t that have been something that he brought up when she was asking him about his past? Anybody could look up that sort of information.

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