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Rebel Blood Chapter 24
Simone's POV The door behind me opens and I whirl around, ready to launch more insults in Aldric’s direction, but it’s Vesper who darkens the doorway. “What do you want?” I spit at him. I don’t know why I’m so fucking angry. I could have stayed on the beach. I could have allowed death to take me, maybe to a better place than that Godforsaken place, but I went with Aldric instead. Yet, I can't stop the anger, and I want to rage at him because he did this to me. “Now, now, Poppet,” Vesper says in a calm, measured tone. “We’ll have none of that. Aldric needs to feed and he really needs to wash, because he stinks of your blood.” “My blood doesn’t stink.” “No,” Vesper agrees, and sits on the edge of my overturned bed. “But it will attract wildlife.” I don’t know what to do with my rage. I want to scream and fight and break things, but I’ve basically destroyed the room and I’m too afraid to leave. I’m too afraid that I’ll hurt someone. “You are very angry,” Vesper states as a matter o
Rebel Blood Chapter 25
Aldric's POV “Are you sorry you made me?” Simone asks. I slowly shake my head from side to side. “I know you want me to be, but I’m really not.” She pulls her knees up to her chest and folds her arms around her ankles. “Did you fight it? The change?” “Yes,” I reply. “For a long, long time.” “But you didn’t get the blood madness thingy?” I laugh softly. “No. It doesn’t happen to everyone who resists the change.” “So we don’t know how I’ll turn out?” I shake my head at her again and get to my feet. “I want to find out who sent that werewolf. Do you want to come with me?” “What?” she asks surprised. “I’m not supposed to stay locked up in my room?” “You can, if you want, but I thought you’d like to get some answers.” “You trust me?” Smiling at her, I nod. “As long as I can keep an eye on you.” “When Baron made new vampires, he sequestered them for six months.” “How many vampires did he make while you were there?” She shrugs. “Is it important?” “Yes. He’s a powerful vampire
Rebel Blood Chapter 26
Aldric's POVI don’t need much. I came here with the clothes on my back. Simone has even less. All we need is the potion and Vesper’s instructions and we can be on our way.Vesper doesn’t allow anyone to go into his alchemy room, so we wait for him in the kitchen, listening as everyone rushes around to get their things packed.I take up position by the door, placing myself between Simone and any possible danger, while she sits on the kitchen table with her legs tucked in under her rump. She’s so incredibly vulnerable right now, and she doesn’t even know.“I am going to miss this place,” my young bride says.A week ago, she told me that she wanted to leave here. Maybe I just asked her at the wrong time, but it’s all moot now. We have to go anyway. “We’ll be able to come back. Eventually, Baron will lose interest in Vesper.”“Why does Baron care about your brother so much anyway?”“He thinks Vesper wants to overthrow him.”“Does he?”“Oh yeah,” I say with a little laugh. “But he doesn’t
Rebel Blood Chapter 27
Simone's POVMy eyes snap open and I jerk upright. Blinking rapidly, I try to figure out where I am.A bedroom of some kind. The room is big, twice the size of the one I had at Baron’s mansion, but the windows are boarded shut. The rustic old furniture is well kept, and the bed I’m lying on is soft and luxurious. The linen is like a feather, softly draping over me. I swallow against the drought in my throat and hold a palm to my steadily pounding head.On the far side of the room, a door opens and Aldric steps inside. “Oh,” he says, sounding surprised. “You’re awake already.”“Yes,” I croak through dry and cracked lips. “I don’t feel great though.”He darts across the room and hands me a blood bag. My hands are shaking so much that I can’t tear it open. “Tomorrow morning you should feed before you rest for the day,” Aldric says as he takes the bag from me and opens it. "It helps."My stomach churns when I see the blood, but it smells fantastic. I suck the tube into my mouth and sigh
Rebel Blood Chapter 28
Simone's POV “You should be okay to leave the room now,” Aldric says ten minutes later. “Are you sure?” “Yes, you have yourself under control, and you are satiated…but just in case, we’ll bring blood with us.” After what happened, I don’t really want to leave. I don’t trust myself. “What if I…lose it again?” “I’ll be right by your side. I won’t let anything happen to you.” “It’s not me I’m worried about.” Aldric gives me a lopsided little grin. “When I was a neophyte, Darrick forced me to face my bloodlust. It’s the best and fastest way to learn how to control it.” “The other neophytes don’t,” I say. “Victoria told me they killed a whole camp.” Aldric grimaces. “Because their creators make them and leave them to their own devices.” “Why?” “I don’t know. Most of them don’t even know who made them.” “Don’t they meet their makers in the afterlife like you and I did?” Aldric grabs his ankles and leans forward. “We only do it that way when we take brides.” “Then…how did you kn
Rebel Blood Chapter 29
Aldric's POV I wish I didn’t have to bring the subject of sex up with Simone. I should have left well enough alone, but I am afraid that the same thing that happened with Victoria will happen with her, and I’d rather find out sooner than later if she doesn’t feel the same way I do. It would spare us both a lot of heartache down the road. It wasn’t until Vicky and I had sex after I turned her that the bond changed. We both knew the moment I entered her. We knew that it was wrong and we both stopped it at the same time. It was one of the worst moments of my life, and it came back to haunt me at various times over the years. The other reason we need to complete the union is more practical. While my bond with Simone is incomplete, I can’t be away from her for more than a few hours at a time. I couldn’t concentrate on my meeting with Richard, and it took all of my substantial willpower to get through the sentencing of the neophytes. All I could think about, all I wanted, was to be with
Rebel Blood Chapter 30
Aldric’s POV I sit on the couch in Simone’s room, waiting for her to wake up. At her age, it’s jarring when death let’s go for the night and returns you to the land of the living. It's like you're reborn all over again. My bride inhales sharply and bolts upright. Her eyes are wild as she looks around her. She’s confused and afraid. I don't say anything. She has to learn how to deal with waking up. Gradually, the fear eases out of her and she looks straight at me. “Is it always like this?” she asks. “Only in the beginning,” I say and get up from my seat. I hand her a blood bag and sit next to her on the bed. “It will get easier. Did you dream?” I ask. “Yes. Why?” “I felt something from you earlier. You were scared.” “My mother. It’s always the same dream. It stopped for a little while when I lived with Vesper, but…they came back.” “Okay.” My throat constricts while I watch her drink the blood. The way my body reacts to her is violent and painful and it takes everything I have to
Rebel Blood Chapter 31
Simone's POVThe meeting with the sheriffs takes hours. Aldric mostly discusses new procedures for the creation of vampires and measures to address the blood shortage. More than once, my mind drifts and I slip into daydreaming about more interesting things, just like I used to do when Baron dragged me out of my cage so he could show me off to his guests.This time, I don’t get to linger in my make-believe worlds though, just when I get good and settled into one of my little fantasies, Victoria roughly kicks me on the shin and brings me back to reality.I have no idea why Aldric insisted on me joining him. I’m no one important and have no authority over other vampires. I’m just an accessory – this time as a bride and not a doll, but it’s essentially the same thing. I feel as if he just brought me along so he can show the other sheriffs that he bagged himself a bride.“I am placing an embargo on creation,” Aldric says. “From now on, you will apply and obtain permission to create new vam
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