Vampire, Hunter by Maria Arnt

Author:Maria Arnt [Arnt, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781732437128
Publisher: AnewPress
Published: 2019-04-06T22:00:00+00:00

She didn’t know how much time passed, but when she once again became aware of her surroundings, it was to awaken into a nightmare.

Blood pervaded her every sense, she could taste it in her mouth and smell it thick in her nose, and feel it, oh god, she could feel it everywhere.... On her hands, and face, and soaking her T-shirt all down her front. Looking down had been a mistake, she realized, when she saw the man—the body of the man—who she—that she....

“Come away darling,” Seth’s voice said softly. She glanced up to see him standing in the doorway, looking relaxed and pleased. “No need to concern yourself with the mess, I’ll clean it up.”

“Wha...” she could hardly find her voice for a moment, like a terrible dream where you try to scream and nothing comes out. “What have you done?!” she screamed.

He raised his eyebrows. “What have I done?” he asked sarcastically. “I think it’s quite clear what, or rather who, the cause of death was,” he gestured to her scarlet-spattered self.

“And how did he get in here?!” she demanded, suddenly realizing what must have happened, why the man’s face had been cut. She looked down, but there wasn’t much left of his face anymore. She wanted to be sick again, but she didn’t feel the slightest twinge of nausea.

“I did, yes, but you were the one who put yourself in the condition that led to this,” he said condescendingly. “You were going to feed eventually, and you had put it off so long that you could not help but kill your next victim. So I went out and found an appropriate sacrifice to your pride and stubbornness.”

Tanya gaped at him, horrified. “How could you...” she stammered.

“Easily. If it helps you, he wasn’t a very good person. I convinced him to come here under the pretense of paying for your company,” he elaborated.

Ugh. That was enough to make her push the man’s body away in distaste. But she was still angry at Seth. “You don’t get to choose who lives and who dies like you’re God or something! Who the fuck do you think you are?!” she shouted.

“A god, yes!” he shouted back, stopping her rant in its tracks. “And I assure you, punishment of the wicked is well within my purview.”

She stared up at him for what felt like a full minute. “You’re bat-shit crazy,” she realized aloud.

“Am I?” he seemed offended. “Tatiana, you know so very little about me. How old do you suppose I am?”

She frowned, he was changing the subject. “I dunno, over a thousand? That doesn’t change the fact that—”

“Five thousand, four hundred and thirty-six, give or take a few centuries,” he interrupted. “The dating systems are difficult to track.”

Her mouth opened and closed, trying to find the words. She grasped desperately at the remnants of her high-school history class. “But that’s like... the stone age,” she argued.

“The bronze age,” he corrected snidely, “and well into it, too. Egypt was the paradigm of civilization, and had been for centuries when I came to inhabit this form.

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