Vampire Lover by Linda Thomas-Sundstrom

Author:Linda Thomas-Sundstrom [Thomas-Sundstrom, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy
ISBN: 9781426870194
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

As soon as the vampire repeated the word Slayer, the air had gone right out of Kelsie, dragging her into a tunnel the color of pitch. She fell, folding into the darkness, with the night closing in after her.

In the darkness she heard whispers, though meaning skipped past her awareness, as if she’d dropped into a memory too painful to confront. Yet out of the murmur of voices she caught the word vampire. And seconds later, Flynn. The concepts swirled around and around, forming the image of a tall, light-haired man with a chiseled face and the teeth of a demon.

She blinked and came to, shaking, tense, cold to the bone. The vampire had set something into motion with his talk about Slayers and enemies. As she stood with her hands raised, looking at the handsome representation of the devil standing across from her, in his prime and in his element, Kelsie said "Flynn," with the inflection of an oath.

Yes, she knew that name. Had heard it before.

Flynn was a cursed name tied to the very soul of the legends in Clare. And also, if she was right, tied to the creature across from her.

Not just a vampire. An ancient Irish one.

She lowered her hands slightly, her need for answers outweighing everything else. How had she Linda Thomas-Sundstrom

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known his name? What did this mean?

"You’re one of them, " she said. "I suppose Ireland’s too small for the likes of you these days? Big city, easy pickings?"

"Again, couldn’t you answer that question as well?" he replied.

They were alone on a street corner. No help was to be had if she shouted. She had made a huge mistake by wishing for monsters this night. She was no more a Slayer than…

"I don’t know what you’re talking about," Kelsie said. But thinking about the term Slayer produced a tingle of rightness she couldn’t completely ignore.

Was that a title for the thing she felt growing within herself? Vampire Slayer?

Absurd!

She was keyed up and ready to get off a potentially damaging roundhouse kick out of sheer frustration.

This vampire hailed from the same county in Ireland as herself, and talked nonsense. He’d told her they had been born to take each other down or die trying. Just moments ago, she had called werewolves out of a nightclub, wolves who were hogtied to an awning by a full moon.

Her dizziness wasn’t going away. She had to dial things back, hoping the vampire would maintain his distance until sanity intervened. It was important to understand why this was happening, how she could wind up here with him and why she hadn’t sprinted in the opposite direction.

"If your perceptions are so evolved," she said, testing her voice, "maybe you’d be kind enough to 40

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enlighten me further. Did you come all this way to find me, in particular, or was our meeting coincidence?"

The vampire smiled again, this time showing a flash of pure white fang. Stunned by the sight, Kelsie stood her ground. A fresh jolt of introspection occurred with the sight of those fangs.

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