Of Blood & Magic_Blood Descent Book 1 by T. L. McDonald

Author:T. L. McDonald [McDonald, T. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-03T16:00:00+00:00

“Indi, wake up.” I hear Sebastian say, but I can’t yet distinguish reality from the horrors of my nightmare. On pure instinct, I lash out when he reaches for me, hitting him in the process as I scream and scream and scream.

Getting nowhere, he gets out and comes around to my side of the car. He opens the door and takes the hits I dish out as he unfastens my seatbelt. Gripping me by the upper arms, he pulls me out of the Camaro, then holds me tight against his chest, pinning my arms between us.

“It was just a nightmare. You’re okay now. I’ve got you.” He runs his hand down the length of my hair as I fist my hands over the opening to his jacket, crying into his shirt. “Do you want to talk about it?”

I can’t form any coherent words yet, my nightmare still too vivid in my mind for anything other than slobbering wails to come out of my mouth. The only thing I can do is shake my head.

“If you change your mind, I’m here.” He kisses the top of my head in a gesture of comfort as he rubs circles over my back. It only makes me cry harder because all I can see in my mind’s eye is the look on his face when he pressed a stake through my heart. Dream or not, it doesn’t change the way it felt. The pain. The joy. The anguish. The bloodlust. The power. The desperate wish for freedom from an existence out of my control. The release of life in blood from all those I took it from, to the release of my own life by Sebastian’s hand. It all felt so real and it’s not something I’ll ever be able to forget.

Maybe remembering it in all its horrible detail is a good thing in some sick, twisted way, because it’ll keep me from ever becoming the monster I saw myself as. My future is still being written and I’ll be damned if I let it become what I dreamt. Nor will I let it be manipulated by other people’s fears of who they think I’ll become. However long it takes, I will free myself from all of it. The vampires who want me dead for whatever reason, the angels who are afraid I’ll become too powerful, the dark witches who… I don’t even know what they want, but they’re not going to get it either. None of them are. It’s my life and I will fight for it. No more suppression spells. No more memory wipes. No more hiding. If it’s a fight they want, it’s a fight they’re going to get.

I push away from Sebastian and wipe the tears from my eyes. No more tears either.

I spin in a circle, taking in my surroundings as I shove everything but the task at hand down. I can do this and I will do this because I have to. “We’re going to find a vampire at a seedy motel in the city?” I shrug my shoulders in consideration.

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