Orpheus: A Vampire's Rise (Erotic Edition) (The Stone Masters Vampire Series (Book One) by Fewings Vanessa

Author:Fewings, Vanessa [Fewings, Vanessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: VMK
Published: 2013-11-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 35

London offered everything a man could want.

But all I wanted was Jacob. I scoured the city, searching night after night, ignoring my own needs. With no trace of him, I thought I’d lose my mind. The loss felt unbearable, the emptiness, agony. I blamed myself for not seeing Ricardo’s jealousy, should have predicted he’d be as wayward as his father. So many times, I’d showered Jacob with affection, but ignored Ricardo. By spoiling my son, I’d put him in danger. How he’d spied on me without detection, I couldn’t work out.

After another agonizing night, I climbed the spiraling steps to our room, cursing my ineptitude.

Once inside, I fell to my knees. “I just want him back,” I sobbed. “I just want him back.” Tears soaked my shirt.

I crawled into my coffin and the darkness closed in. Horror violated my dreams, transmuting them into nightmares.

* * * *

Sunaria caught up with me. I’d taken a moment to peer over London Bridge to watch my victim’s body float down the Thames.

“Oops.” I smiled.

She flashed an angry glare. “You think that’s funny.”

“I assumed he’d sink.”

“A month in the city and you’re infamous.”

“It took me that long?”

“You kill and you don’t look back.”

“I’ve been a little distracted.”

“They burned our building down.”

“What?” I turned to face her.

“Burned to the ground.”

“Who?”

“Don’t fake interest.”

“How do you know it’s because of me? Perhaps a candle fell over—”

“I’m assuming it wasn’t you who left the rose on my casket this morning?” She glanced at the bobbing corpse. “All you think of is you.”

“I was just about to ask about our blind landlord?”

“Half-blind.”

“Did he get out?”

“So now you pretend to care about someone else.”

“Did he?”

“Yes.”

I gazed at the city skyline. “Jacob is out there right now, alone.”

“You’ve brought attention to our kind. They don’t like that.”

“I’ll be more careful.”

“I’m done cleaning up after your nightly escapades.”

“You should be out there searching for him.” I stared at the city’s nightscape. “Not wasting your time.”

“Keeping us alive is not wasting time.”

I turned back. “I’m going to find my son and then we’re leaving this godforsaken city.”

“Are you even listening to me?”

“What do you want me to say?”

“That you’ll use discretion,” she sighed. “Follow the rules.”

I glided up onto the bridge wall. “It’s time we came out of the shadows.”

“That attitude will get us killed.”

With my arms out, I shouted, “Hello, London!”

“Get down.”

“Check out the view.”

“Get down now!”

I sat on the wall. “It’s time the world knew that we’re not myth.”

“Have you lost your mind?” She joined me up on the ledge and wrapped her arms around my waist. “Please shake out of this.”

“I miss Spain.”

“I’ve lost you.”

“No.”

“Come back to me.”

“I’m sorry I put you in harm’s way.” I kissed her forehead.

“Have you considered that he may have left London?”

“Shit,” I said. “Look.”

The body caught on the left side of the riverbank.

“Did you hear me?” she continued, impatiently.

Within seconds, it bobbed off again.

“What do you want me to do,” I said. “Run between Spain and here?”

“It’s just that I wonder if he’s trying to find his way home.

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