L I - D 05 by T J

Author:T J [J, T]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-10-20T00:34:43.035000+00:00

“Your grandparents sound like they were good people.”

“They were.” When she tried hard enough, Sin could still smell her grandma’s homemade cookies.

Could remember the hugs, the bedtime stories. The secret laughs her grandparents would sometimes

share. They’d loved each other so much. They’d never had a lot of money, but the hard times only

brought them closer.

“And then my mom escaped from the hospital. Lore and I were eighteen, two days from our nineteenth birthdays and still living with our grandparents when she broke in and killed them. The only

reason she didn’t kill us, too, was that I rolled over just as she was trying to stab me in the heart.

The knife went into my shoulder. I screamed, and Lore came from his bedroom to tackle her.”

Con pressed a kiss into her hair, and it was so tender, so intimate, that she sucked in a harsh breath.

Con seemed to realize what he’d done, his big body going taut, as if he couldn’t believe his own action. “I’m sorry,” he said roughly, but whether he was sorry about kissing her like that or about her

past, she didn’t know.

Either way, it made her uncomfortable. And maybe a little… warm.

“’S’okay. No big.” But her bravado was false, and she wondered if he knew that. The truth was that,

at the time, she’d been devastated beyond consolation. She’d gone into some sort of shock that lasted for weeks. If not for Lore forcing her to eat, to live, she might have died. “Lore took care of me.

We stayed in the house for a little over a year, and then we found out that everything our mom had

said about us was true.”

She’d never forget that night. It was a full moon. Foggy. Creepy. Her right arm had started to burn,

and she’d watched in horror as red welts boiled up in her skin. Lore had come home from his job at

a factory, and he’d stumbled into the house, his face wrenched in pain, his arm burning like hers.

“Some of the memories are fuzzy.” She traced Con’s ribs with her fingers, needing to put her hands

to work because she couldn’t reach her dagger, which she liked to flip out of nervous habit. “But

some are crystal clear. We developed our dermoires, and a desperate… need. Lore had it the worst.

He fought what was happening to him, and he went into this wild rage.” She shuddered, remembering how his skin had turned red, shot through with black, bulging veins. His eyes, glowing crimson

fire, had targeted her for death. “I guess purebred Sems go kind of crazy during their first maturation cycle, and they need lots of sex to get through it. Lore… it was different for him.” At least, it

was different while he was inside the house. After he left, she could only guess at what he’d done.

“He tore the house apart. I think I only survived because I played dead. I left the house after he did,

but I got home before him. It was a couple of days, I think. When he came back…” She took a

deep, ragged breath.

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