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CARNAL Chapter 1
Proudly did I sit upon my throne, a seat forged from blood and bone.My skin marred with evidence of war, I was scared and bruised. I was wounded and battered but it was a war I would never lose. The taste of blood on my lips, my fangs were sharpened by flesh. Eyes flashing with moonlight, a wolf howled inside my chest.They made me a ruler and a King, I made them suffer and bleed. Feared more than fear itself, I was born to lead.The moment I saw her, my eyes filled with fear. She scared me more than my demons, for them I learned to bear. Her eyes were wild with hope, although I knew it wouldn't be long until she knew me for the monster I was. Fate had finally done wrong.She could never know, I would hide it well. For how could she learn to love a monster that could never love himself?Ella's P.O.V."Your grandfather is dead."Those were words I never wanted to hear, but had been anticipating for too long.Those words were the reason that I sat on a plane flying above German farmla
CARNAL Chapter 2
Jesus Christ.I took a few startled steps backwards as I heard everyone around me gasp in horror. The man in the casket began to sit up, causing everyone to scatter.He was in his mid-thirties, significantly younger than my grandfather. He had black, shoulder-length hair and skin so pale he could have passed for dead if he had kept his eyes closed.The moment his dark eyes locked on mine, I felt a hard body run into the back of me and I fell into someone who was running past me.I looked over my shoulder to see the men I had previously noticed fighting against the crowd to get closer to the casket. Their haste meant they knew something about it, and it was because of that that I watched them intently as the room around us panicked.One of them, an Eastern Asian guy with dark, coiffed hair and black stud earrings, pushed his way to the front.I saw a momentary flash of fear in the beady eyes of the man in the casket before he swung his legs over the side and tried to run.The Asian m
CARNAL Chapter 3
"Come inside, I'm sure you're cold."I was freezing, but I wasn't sure I wanted to go inside the cabin. I didn't know whether I would come back out. There was a piece of me that wanted to trust him, oddly enough, and I couldn't shake it.I followed him around the house, staring at his back as he led me up the stairs to the side door. He was almost a foot taller than me and I guessed almost a hundred pounds heavier unless he had several layers under his coat.I turned to look at him as he did so. I gulped.He was a lot better looking in the light than I had expected him to be. As he took off his coat I came to the conclusion he hadn'tblayered and he was indeed built like a brick house. I could seebthe outline of his chest and arm muscles under the gray, form-fitting Henley he wore.He brushed the snow flurries from his short, chestnut-colored hair and I let out a long breath.We looked at each other and the world stopped for a moment. He had the oddest eyes I'd ever looked into. They w
CARNAL Chapter 4
Ella's P.O.V.I'm an idiot.I couldn't believe that I had made arrangements to go across Germany with men I didn't know to hunt ghosts. Zak made it abundantly clear how he felt about this by staring at me blankly after I had finished explaining myself."You're supposed to be the smart one between the two of us, he signed. ''Where is your common sense?''I just shrugged. I didn't have a defense for myself. What I had done was stupid but I didn't want to back out of it.As much as the situation made no sense to me, there was a nagging tug in the pit of my stomach that urged me to commit to going with the strangers and find my grandfather."What are you going to do about school?'' Zak asked me.''Then my grandfather's dead." Excuse will only work for so long until you start to get behind on your work.I sighed. He had a point.''Thanksgiving break is about to start,'' I signed. ''That will at least buy me a week."Zak just shook his head''You don't know these men.'' he reminded me fo
CARNAL Chapter 5
"That's impossible."I reached forward and took the sheet of paper from Cain's hands and examined it. There was very little light in the train due to the drawn shades, but I squinted enough that I could read the contents of thepaper.I looked through the dates of his hospital visits and I shook my head in disbelief.Cain was right. My grandfather hadn't been seen at any hospital for the past seven years. He didn't have so much as a prescription filled. This didn't add up seeing as I'd been led to believe he'd had a serious, life-threatening heart condition for a number of years."I don't understand," I said, my eyebrows furrowing. I laid the paper down on my lap and looked up at Cain as he stared at me intently."Are there any other medical records there?" I asked him,nreferring to the folder in his hands. Maybe he had them out of order and read the wrong thing.Cain shook his head. "There isn't a medical examiner's report here or a certificate ofdeath," he said."He wouldn't have
CARNAL Chapter 6
Ella's P.O.V.I jumped as I came face to face with Cain."What are you doing?" He asked, pulling me out of the hallway and into the car. I felt my heart stop when his hand touched my upper arm. He closed the door behind me and I looked around him to seenthat Jai and Daniel were nowhere to be found."I was looking for a bathroom," I lied.The stoic look on his face made me believe he wasn't convinced. He knew I had been looking for a way off the train. The glances that I had seen between the three strange men were unsettling, like I was missing a huge piece of the puzzle.The enigma behind who they were, why they cared about my grandfather, and why I was allowed to tag along was dizzying.I had a crazy theory that they worked for the German government. How else could someone order an autopsy?But I was still conflicted.If they worked for the German government, why did they need me to get his medical records and financial statements? Why was I invited? And why the hell was it worth no
CARNAL Chapter 7
Ella's P.O.V."Here's where you'll be staying."Jai opened the bedroom door and pulled my suitcase inside the room for me. I followed him inside and cringed The room was huge, just like the rest of the place. The ceiling was at least fifty feet tall. The dark paneling on the walls made the olive-colored curtains stand out, which hung beside a ginormous bay window that was in the center of the far wall.One of the biggest beds I'd ever laid eyes on sat against the wall to my left. It had a four post bed frame that was a dark oak just like the paneling on the walls and the flooring.The black duvet matched the pillows on the bed and the two black couches that were on the other side of the room.The Victorian-style couches sat across from each other in front of a fireplace that was big enough for three grown men to stand beside each other inside it."Over there is your bathroom," Jai said, pointing to a door that was on the same wall as the fireplace.We heard someone walk into the room
CARNAL Chapter 8
"Didn't you say you found the last man that this happened to?" I asked. "Did you talk to him about what happened?""We did talk to him," Cain said. "He didn't remember a thing. He said he fell asleep in his bed and woke up in the woods four days later.""Have you kept track of him? Maybe he remembers something now. "I said."He died yesterday," Cain informed me.My eyes widened. "How?""He had an aggressive form of leukemia. He was diagnosed two days before he was kidnapped and died shortly after he was found."I thought for a moment. "Leukemia is a blood-based cancer," I pointed out. "They were all given blood transfusions and all suffered from either a heartcondition or anemia. Do you think this could all be connected? Maybe the clinic they were seen at for the transfusions is where they are being targeted."Cain nodded thoughtfully. "It's a good start," Cain said. "I think we should keep looking and see if we find anything else." So keep looking we did.Hours went by and both Jai
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