vampire for christmas by felicity heaton

Author:felicity heaton
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: dark fantasy romance, vampires, paranormal romance, vampire, vampire romance, paranormal, romance, fantasy, fantasy romance, dark fantasy, christmas romance, vampire hunter, urban fantasy
Publisher: Dark Rose Publishing
Published: 2010-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 5

Shannon couldn’t keep up. She did her best but she was no match for Rafe when they were running. He streaked ahead of her, hot on the heels of the demon. She had never seen such anger in his pale blue eyes as she had when he had changed into his true appearance and roared at the demon. Was that fury because he knew what she had been about to say? The words fled her lips now, cowering in her heart as it trembled in her throat, and she wasn’t sure if she would be able to coax them out again for him. Part of her wanted to say them, needed him to know how she felt about him, but the stronger part of her was saying to keep quiet. She fought against it. Rafe needed to hear her say it. She needed to say it.

He wasn’t the only one who had changed over the past two years. Their partnership had changed her too. It was part of the reason she could put up decorations again and see a Christmas tree without reliving the pain of her family’s deaths, instead remembering the happy times they had spent together during the holiday season. He had made her see that there were vampires out there who were capable of doing great things and protecting humans. He had made her see that a vampire could redeem himself and change his ways, forsaking the need to kill for blood. There was a difference between him and the vampire she had killed. Rafe had chosen to redeem himself. The agency had tried and failed to reform him. In the end, he had done it himself. The vampire she had killed had left a trail of brutal murders for her to follow, and her partner at the time had given him a chance to choose salvation and a different life. The vampire had laughed at that, and she had killed him because she had seen that nothing would change him, and she had believed then that all vampires were the same.

And then she had met Rafe.

She had misjudged him from the start, and had grown frustrated each time he had proven himself different to her cookie-cutter vampire. Each mission they had completed together had changed her opinion of vampires, so subtly that she hadn’t even noticed until last Christmas.

She had felt different then. Less pained by the sight of decorations, and less angry around Rafe. A small part of her had started to look forward to missions, to learning from things that he told her, even though she pretended not to listen. Now, they were on their last mission, and she didn’t want it to end. She wanted it to go on forever.

She didn’t want to leave him.

Rafe chased the demon down an alley between a row of dark stores and she lost sight of him.

Although, he seemed quite intent on leaving her.

Shannon tried to catch up and then yelped when slime struck the side of her face.

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