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Rebel Blood Chapter 11
Simone's POV“I'm ready,” I say and yawn loudly.My arm still hurts, but not as much as it did five minutes ago. My head spins like a top, and my thoughts have slowed down to a crawl. Everything around me moves in slow motion, and I battle to focus on any one thing.What did Vesper give me?Aldric manoeuvres himself so he can sit behind me and gently pulls me back until I lie flush against him. Under any other circumstances, I’d question his actions, but the medicine has rendered me stupid, and having Aldric’s warm body against my back is comforting. I feel oddly safe. Protected.“Brace yourself, Poppet,” Vesper says.“Hm-hm,” I mumble.Aldric’s arms snake around me, and he pins me down. I’m aware that Vesper has my left wrist in his hands, but I barely notice. I’m too focused on Aldric and how good his mere touch makes me feel.The next moment a sharp pain shatters my happy little dreamland, and for those few seconds everything comes back into stark, clear reality. I think I scream w
Rebel Blood Chapter 12
Aldric's POVLeaving Simone was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my endless, immortal life. It literally felt as if I tore myself in two, and left a part of my soul behind.Despite my brother's dire warnings, I left, firmly believing that it would get better as time went on, even though I knew better and had seen other vampires battle with the same thing.Hubris is every vampire's mortal enemy, and I fell victim to it.Before I left that day, Vesper tried to talk me out of it yet again, but I wouldn’t listen to him. “Look after her,” I said before I walked out of the gates. “Keep her safe.”“You can’t just go, Aldric.” Vesper tried for the hundredth time to get through to me. “You’ll go mad with longing.”“No, I won’t. She’s human. It will be over before we know it, and I can go on with my life, empty and meaningless as it may be from now on. How long do humans live these days anyway? Sixty years? I have forty years left to go.”“That’s how long yours live. Mine often make
Rebel Blood Chapter 13
**TRIGGER WARNING: The next few chapters deal with abortion issues.** Aldric’s POV It’s not possible to feel even worse that I have this last month or so. This cannot be. “Did…how?” I say through dead lips. “Did you allow your humans to take advantage of her?” “Of course not. She won’t talk about it. She withdrew completely into herself. She just…she’s very unwell.” “Is the pregnancy making her sick?” Vesper nods but doesn’t say anything else. “So…could it be a vampire’s?” “It’s so rare, but yes…that’s the only other explanation.” “Well…she has to end it, Vesper! It will kill her.” “I tried telling her, but…she won't talk to me. I think she’s pining for you and maybe, just maybe, she is under the impression that the child will fill the void you left behind.” “Oh…she’s human, she has no void like that.” “Wow,” my brother says under his breath. “You really think that, don’t you?” “Yes, I really think that. Do you remember how they used to jump from one partner to the next? Th
Rebel Blood Chapter 14
Simone's POV Aldric says something to Vesper in a language I don’t understand before they step outside. I don’t know what they want to talk about, but vampires are like that – always holding all their undead secrets close to their hearts. I missed Aldric. I didn’t think I would, I barely know him, but I started missing him mere hours after he left. It was as if he took a part of me with him, and when he returned he gave it back. When he asked me about the pregnancy, I intended to tell him the same lie I’ve been telling everyone else, which pretty much boils down to ‘I am sure I will love it.’ Lately, I’ve been so very tired, and I hate myself for resenting the thing growing inside me. I can’t think of it as a child or a baby. I can feel it inside me, crawling and twisting, sucking me dry like an orange, and like every other vampire, it’s gorging itself on my blood. Yet, like me, the creature asked for none of it. That is what keeps me awake at night. Neither of us had a choice in t
Rebel Blood Chapter 15
Aldric's POV**TRIGGER WARNING** This chapter is a little rough and contains pregnancy loss and other graphic scenes. Proceed with caution.I don’t know why, but I try to get between Vesper and Simone. I suddenly see my brother, one of the few people I trust with my very life and my heart, as a threat.He roughly pushes me away and I growl at him like a demented werewolf. “Go hold her instead,” he says, his tone calm. “Use your magic touch and give her your blood.”“She is a slow healer.”“It’s better than nothing, and better than what I can do. If worst comes to worst, you can turn her, but you’re not going to get it done from down here.”I crawl up the bloody bed, it reminds me so much of that night she attacked Baron, and lift her so I can hold her. I don’t even want to look at Vesper. Everything inside me wants to kill him for touching my bride in such an intimate way, but I’m not so caught up by my desire that I fail to realise that I won’t be able to stay calm enough to see her
Rebel Blood Chapter 16
Simone's POV I am at once relieved and heartbroken, and I don’t know what to do with all these new feelings. How am I supposed to process everything that happened in such a short amount of time? How am I supposed to explain to people that I did not want this child, but I’m still sad for him? For what he had to go through and endure in his short few minutes of life? I sent Aldric out because I thought he’d have questions I couldn’t answer. It took me a while to realise I didn’t have to answer his questions. He doesn’t answer any questions when he doesn't feel like it, so why should I? I wish I knew what kind of hold that vampire has on me. Every time I see him, I promise myself that I won't let him get under my skin, that I won't tell him everything that pops into my head, and every time I fail. It's as if some unknown force compels me to tell him the truth. Maybe that’s why he won’t answer me when I ask him questions. Maybe he can't lie to me either. After an hour alone with the ch
Rebel Blood Chapter 17
Simone's POV“Have you lost your damn mind?” Vesper asks Aldric. "You can't go back there."I wake up to the brothers having a full-blown, but whispered argument. I try to keep my breathing even so they won’t notice that I’m awake, but vampires can usually tell when humans are not asleep. Something about our heart rate changing.“I have to try,” Aldric says. “Baron is destroying everything.”“He’s been destroying shit since he took power, he-”“No,” Aldric interrupts. “No, he hasn’t. The first thirty years or so everything went exactly to plan.”“Hm…but you know what they say about absolute power. What about your little stray? Are you just going to leave her again?”“No. That is not an option.”“You can’t take her with you to Baron. He thinks she’s dead.”Aldric sighs deeply and looks over his shoulder at me, then back to his brother. “He will know by now that I lied. The moment Phoenix was born, he would have known.”“You must really take me for a fool, baby brother,” Vesper says, hi
Rebel Blood Chapter 18
Aldric's POV “You weren’t kidding when you said Simone is a slow healer,” Vesper says and hands me a glass of his finest, aged blood. I have no idea how it’s made, or exactly what process they use to keep blood this old fresh enough for consumption even hundreds of years after the original donor died. It’s a family secret of the Eurynomos bloodline. The blood is slightly alcoholic and can give a neophyte quite the buzz, but ancient vampires like us enjoy it merely for the novelty – and sometimes it tastes good. “It’s strange,” my brother goes on. “Humans usually heal so fast from our blood.” “Maybe it’s her genetics. I mean, her mother never fully turned. She was able to drown herself.” “Imogen suffered from blood madness. They die quickly anyway.” “Yeah, I suppose,” I sigh and sip the aged blood. This vintage is actually pretty nice, and I find myself wishing that Simone could enjoy it with me. After all the blood I'd given her, the imprint intensified, and leaving her, even f
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