May Sage - 02 Blood of a Huntsman by May Sage

Author:May Sage [Sage, May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Madam’s Books
Published: 2019-05-29T18:30:00+00:00

Cat was no stranger to pain, but she couldn't recall ever having a headache quite as acute, like someone had lit a fire at the base of her skull.

That was nothing to the furnace burning her throat. Thirst like she'd never known. Thirst so strong she wanted to sink her teeth into the first thing, the first person, she could hunt down.

Her eyes opened. She didn't need a mirror to know they were bright silver. The eyes of a hunter focusing on the thing right in front of her.

A glass filled with blood.

She moved faster than she ever had, knocked some of it onto her bed, and didn't care one bit. Her eyes closed as she gulped the blood down, moaning in relief.

It tasted…wrong. Stale. Disgusting.

Cat opened her eyes again and found Bash sitting on her office chair, which he'd dragged next to her bed.

He had another glass at the ready.

"I called Alexius when you crashed without drinking. He said you'd be parched when you woke up. I can relate."

Cat gratefully took the second glass and downed it too, though a little slower this time. It still tasted rancid.

Blood was like water to her. Tasteless, simple. Necessary. She didn't like or dislike it, she just…needed it to survive. Her palate wasn't so refined as to prefer one blood type over another. They were all the same, a liquid she couldn't survive without.

Right now, everything she knew was flipped on its head. And she realized what an ass she'd been.

Her eyes cut to Sebastian. He still smelled so very good. As tempting as an apple pie right out of the oven.

"Sorry. I was a bitch," she said with a wince.

"On which occasion?" Sebastian asked.

Cat snorted, or laughed; she couldn't quite tell.

"When I implied you were weak. For needing blood the way you do," she added.

She'd believed that since she was a newborn, turned only twelve months ago, she could remember what he was going through quite clearly. But if tonight was any indication, she had no idea. And no wonder.

All her life, she'd known she would eventually turn into a vampire. And she'd been told what to expect, and trained to control her thirst. The conditioning had started early. When she'd been thirsty as a child, she'd had to wait an hour before being given a drop of water. In her teens, she'd fasted for days on end, all the while sparring. Assuming that she could understand what someone like Bash felt upon turning had been self-centered as hell.

This was her first time experiencing bloodlust in twelve months. And she wasn't dealing with it well.

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