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Chapter 6
Magdalena shivered; not from the cold, but from the sheer delight that coursed through her body as she nuzzled close to me while we made our way down the street. It had been centuries since she’d huddled this close to anyone -human or supernatural. The heady, sexual, and exhilarating sensation far outweighed any desire to drink my blood.
Our conversation proved light, jovial, and delightful. Magdalena found herself rapidly developing a comfort with me and it felt good. It felt very good.
She’d experienced this once before, centuries ago in another time and what seemed like another life when she met and fell in love with Marcus Wexton, Earl of Wetherford. She was touring homes of the wealthiest of the ton in Wales with her cousin, Evelyn, who was a few hundred years her senior. Evelyn had defied the vympire code and taken a human husband. They weren’t far from Marcus’s estate when their buggy lost a wheel. It w
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I adjusted my body behind the steering wheel of the rental car. I hated driving long distances and even though it was only a few hours’ drive from Middletown to Owego, it felt like an eternity when there was so much gnawing at me. Shen was in the clutches of some of the evilest creatures ever to exist. Even if they weren’t the evilest, I was certain they came close. I was at a loss at what to do.After calling Bruce to tell him about the situation with Shen and hearing the desperation and despair in his voice over his feelings of helplessness, I decided to go to Owego to join him. At least with the two of us in one location, the fears of what was happening to the other would be eliminated.I’d brought Magdalena and Garth with me. I had no idea how they could help or what could be done at this point, but the more on our team the better. Garth put up a bit of resistance until I confided in him about what Bruce was dealing w
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Tatyana slumped against the back of the seat as the car sped down the highway. They’d blindfolded her to keep her from knowing their destination. Little did they realize that the blindfold prevented them from seeing her close her eyes as she let her abilities to take over. Thinking her asleep, none of the vampires who with gifts were using their limited telepathic abilities to intercept her efforts. She was grateful that they were of Wadim’s lineage and not that of a true vampire. The human DNA dulled much of their senses and, although they could still read minds to some extent, it was limited and they needed to really focus in order to do it; not like the natural, almost involuntary ease in which a pure vampire with telepathic capability would accomplished it.Her first task was to get a message to Elsa. She hoped the woman was fast asleep. It would be easier to get inside her head if she wasn’t awake and concentrating on something e
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Elsa heaved her bulk from the back seat of the cab while the driver pulled her suitcase out of the trunk. Looking up at the rows of balconies creeping up the side of the white brick building before her, she guessed which one belonged to the condo of her destination.The third one from the top on the left, she thought. So, let me see... that would make it the one, two, three, four, five, six, seventh floor. Hmm, unlucky. The sound of her luggage bag being unceremoniously dropped onto the sidewalk beside her as the cab driver grunted ‘good-bye’ ended her little guessing game. She stacked her carry-on on top of her luggage bag and secured the pull handle of her bag into her grip before starting into the building. It looked to be old enough to have come from the era of stairs. She fervently hoped an elevator awaited her.She was not only relieved when she came upon the ornately gilded ele
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