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Part 1 – Chapter 22
“Now listen carefully,” says Fiona, turning businesslike again. “I need to tell you something important.” “What is it?” “No matter what happens, don’t tell the ghost it’s dead. They have no idea they’re no longer living.” I’m convinced we’re both in a padded cell somewhere having this conversation. That’s really the only reasonable explanation. When I sit there staring at her in disbelief, she continues. “Ghosts are simply souls with a story to tell.…-
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Part 1 – Chapter 21
I stare at the coin with my heart palpitating and my mind recoiling as if it spotted a rattlesnake. After a while when I get up my nerve, I reach for it with a trembling hand. It feels abnormally cold in my fingers, as if it’s been stored in a freezer. But it hasn’t been in a freezer. It’s been where I left it, in a drawer in my office desk. And now it’s here. In my car. The car parked outside the bar that Aidan lives above. I glance around, but there’s no one in sight. The…-
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Part 1 – Chapter 20
Later, I lie beside him, my head resting on his chest, my leg thrown over his, my body boneless. I’m a bowl of jiggly Jell-O, quaking and spent. I’ve never felt so alive. Gazing up at the ceiling, Aidan murmurs, “Need to ask you a question. And I need you to be honest when you answer.” I wait silently. He didn’t give me permission to speak, and I’m still not really clear how and when all these rules of his apply, so I stay on the safe side and say nothing. His chest rises and falls…-
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Part 1 – Chapter 19
Afterward, we don’t speak. I don’t know if he’s feeling as emotionally raw as I am or if he simply has nothing to say, but he rolls off me and goes into the bathroom, closing the door behind him. The faucet runs. The toilet flushes. He reappears carrying a wet washcloth and a hand towel. He silently pushes me onto my back and wipes the washcloth gently between my legs as I lie there feeling as if all my bones have turned to liquid. He dries me off with the hand towel, then rises and flips…-
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Ch14. Reading and Writing
Creed Odessa continued to sleep; I lay in waiting. Her breaths came in steadily; her eyelashes twitched as her sleep's cycles shifted. Laying here for hours, feeling parts of my body go numb, was but little suffering I endured while holding her. My dragon lulled her back to sleep with the deep rumbling within my body every shift in movement. Odessa griped my vest tightly each time her body turned restless, the would rumbling began and she would sighed lulling her back to sleep. My rough fingers…-
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Ch13. Cuddles
Creed It had been three days since I had put Odessa in her own area of the cave for sleep. I imagined she spent many nights in front of other humans and vampires watching her every move. I prepared a room meant for storage, just extra furs, baskets, and dried meats to get me through the winter months. Odessa slept contently in my nest our first day back and gave me plenty of time to surprise her. As much as I wanted to keep her in my nest, this would be for the best for her. Eventually, I hope to get…-
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Ch12. Room
Odessa I screamed. I shouted rather loudly, causing Fluffy and Creed to look at me with uneasiness. Creed ran over to me, covered in blood spatter from the cute animal. I should have seen it coming; I mean, he clicked his tongue, and Fluffy went and caught dinner. My breathing was ragged, but I waved my hand in the air. "I'm fine, really; I wasn't expecting it." Part of me was, but I let it go. Creed looked back over to the animal; the head was lying in a bucket while the blood drained. I've…-
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Odessa The mattress on the floor was softer than my bed, where I lived with Dad. The fluffy blankets covered my entire body, and at one point in the night, I burrowed deeper into the duvet. The cold air rushed around my head when I felt the blankets thrown off unceremoniously. Fluttering my eyes open, I was greeted with Creed with his brows high and breath ragged. Did he just run a mile? I squealed, pulling the blankets back down. I was still naked under here and didn't need to flash him so early in…
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Ch10. Creed
Creed My dragon's fangs had already descended again once we reached inside the forest. Bits of black blood dripped from our prey. I was no cannibal, I could not stomach the idea to eat someone with the same face as I, but that didn't matter to my dragon. He was an animal. Wolves often talked to their wolves; their wolves were more civilized than they really knew. Dragons were not. Shifting, the smoke swirled around me, quickly covering my body from the outside elements. The sparks flew as my dragon…-
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Ch9. Duke Mortus
Creed Odessa's hands trembled while I held them. She wouldn't even look at me while she recalled the tale that led her here into my territory. The scars on her arms became more prominent to my dragon. He honed in with his intense eyes memorizing each purple scar that littered her frail body. For six months, she endured more than I thought a human could. Humans were said to be frail, fragile, and weak. Odessa was more vulnerable than the ordinary human. Her body held enough meat on her bones to still…-
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