Vampire Forgotten by Rachel Carrington

Author:Rachel Carrington [Carrington, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-07-01T00:17:01+00:00

Rhad woke up before the sun had fully sunk behind the mountains, sweat dripping from every pore in his body. He sat up on the ground and draped one arm over his knee.

“Are you okay?” Mischa’s soft voice reached him out of the dusk.

He attempted to force the nightmarish memories from his mind before answering her. “I’m fine.”

Rustling noises reached his ears and then Mischa crawled toward him. He eyed her warily. “What are you doing?”

She wiggled in between his body and the wall. “You certainly don’t sound like you’re fine. Besides that, it doesn’t look like you plan on going back to sleep any time soon, and I already had a nap. It’s hard for me to sleep during the day anyway.”

He smelled her skin. Not her blood. The intoxicating scent of her woman’s skin. His pants became painfully tight. “You should try to sleep more.” How could he tell her that he desperately needed her to sleep more?

“Why? Do you want to go back to sleep?”

Rhad dragged one hand through his hair and thought about lying to her. “It’s up to you. Night will be upon us soon. We can leave then.”

Mischa touched his arm and the muscles jumped. “Was it a bad dream?”

He barely flicked a glance her way. “What are you talking about?” The question was only a stall for time. He just wished it had been a dream, a simple scroll of images brought on by an overactive imagination.

“You were screaming.”

“I don’t recall screaming.” Though he imagined he had. That time was burned into his mind.

“You always recall your responses to your nightmares?”

Rhad chuckled though the last thing he felt like doing was laughing. But he had to get Mischa off the subject of his memories. “Good point.”

He relaxed back against the stone wall. They’d taken shelter inside a cave carved inside the wall of a monstrous mountain. Its ancient walls bore secrets it would take an archaeologist years to uncover, and its floor told the tale of other visitors. Badly constructed fires, candy paper wrappers, and empty beer cans littered the ground.

Rhad had moved them farther inside to protect them from the elements and the possibility of any vampire hunters. Romania was rife with them at this time of the year, and he doubted they’d care about his aversion to human blood—an aversion which hadn’t come without a price.

“Hey.” Mischa bumped his shoulder with hers. “You still in this conversation?”

He placed his hand on her leg, surprising both of them, but he didn’t remove it. Though she still wore her jeans, the heat of her skin felt good beneath his palm, taut and muscular. “It’s probably best if you go back to sleep, Mischa.”

“Why? Are you going to do something I’m not supposed to see, like change into a bat or something?”

“That’s a myth.” He practically ground out the words.

Her teeth nibbled her lower lip, and sweat popped out on the back of Rhad’s neck. “Really? I always thought vampires could change into bats. Hmmm.

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