The Glass Vampire by David Page

Author:David Page [Page, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mithras
Published: 2016-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

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"Richard?" Beth gripped both of his shoulders and shook him.

If Richard had not been sitting on his bed he would have fallen. As it was, a bout of nausea closed like a fist around his stomach. Colette’s image burned in his mind along with the memories of shock and betrayal he had felt when she had revealed herself to be a vampire and for all intents and purposes had ‘reprogrammed’ Terrence.”

“It was her.” He gripped the blanket and tightly. “There is no longer any doubt.”

“What?” The spot between Beth’s eyebrows crinkled as she frowned.

“I saw her kill twelve men; saw her feeding.” He blinked. “Men I had known, men who had betrayed me and who wanted to kill me.”

“Do you remember her bringing you over; making you a vampire?” Beth released him but continued to stare at him intently.

“Not as such, but there can be no doubt it was she.” He was baffled by how he could have gone from fleeing into the woods to allowing Colette to bring him across. The feelings he had developed for her paled in comparison to the revulsion that had overwhelmed him when he had seen her lapping up his friends’ blood.

And then there was Terrence. In Richard’s original memories, he had chanced upon his ‘friend’ in the woods days after the battle. Terrence had remembered nothing of what had occurred and the mystery of his broken wrist had never been solved… until now.

“What else to you remember?” Beth asked, her eyes betraying her eagerness.

Richard’s body suddenly grew heavy, as if his limbs were made of lead. As the cobwebs of past memory dusted from his mind, he remembered that on the surface above, the golden orb of the sun had just sank behind the Cascade Mountains. The sleep of the dead dragged at him like a drowning victim threatening to take down the healthy swimmer.

“It … will have to …wait.” He fell over onto his side as the darkness swallowed him.

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