Vampire Memories - 02 - Hunting Memories by Barb Hendee

Author:Barb Hendee
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9780451462916
Publisher: Roc Trade
Published: 2009-12-16T09:00:00+00:00

Eleisha spent the remainder of the night in the guest room talking to Philip, listening to him, trying to reach common ground and still do the right thing for everyone involved.

She felt bad for just leaving Wade out in the sitting room, after he’d been drugged and was still recovering, but somehow, she believed Rose would take care of him. Later, she heard the television come on and the occasional murmur of male voices over what sounded like an old western, and she knew he would be okay watching TV with Seamus.

She didn’t want to leave Philip, and she didn’t want to bring him out among the others yet. He was still too upset.

But there was more to his heated reaction to Robert’s existence than fear for her and Wade. She just didn’t know what it was, and she wasn’t sure how to ask him.

When she felt dawn approaching, she said, “You should get comfortable. The sun will be up soon.”

He took off his shirt and his boots and stretched out on the bed, staring at the ceiling. She climbed up on the bed next to him, kneeling to look down at his face. “You know this Robert . . . don’t you?” she whispered.

“Angelo believed that John, Julian, and I should know of all the elders. He wrote a book called The Makers and Their Children, with their names and their histories. Julian knew the book better than me, but Angelo taught me things about Robert Brighton. I remember the name. I know he was a soldier.”

“Did you ever meet him?”

He hesitated and then answered quietly. “Only once, not long after I was turned and I was still with Angelo. Robert came to visit . . . with his maker.”

“His maker?”

“Her name was Jessenia, and she looked like a gypsy, but she was not. They both hated me, would not be in the same room with me. I stood in a hallway outside a door, and I heard Jessenia tell Angelo that I should be destroyed if he was not going to teach me, and that Julian should be destroyed if he did not develop his abilities. I didn’t know what any of this meant then. I didn’t care.”

Eleisha remembered Robert’s harsh words about Angelo letting Philip run wild and kill whomever he pleased.

“Telepathy?” she whispered.

“I think so now. I think maybe they all hunted as you do, as you taught me, and they blamed Angelo for the way I hunted then.”

His voice held an edge of pain. Everyone changed over decades and decades of existence. Eleisha knew that for all his temper and selfish behavior, he’d learned to care what others thought of him.

“But it’s all different now, Philip. Once he knows you, he won’t hate you anymore. And we can’t just leave him to go on existing alone—not if he wants to join us. Besides, he can tell us so much about what really happened. We’ve been in the dark for a long time.”

She could feel her eyelids growing heavy.

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